Reigning champions Surrey thumped Somerset by eight wickets inside three days to chalk up their first win of the Rothesay County Championship season on the fourth try.
Rory Burns’ aspect – who started the marketing campaign with three straight attracts – diminished Somerset to 39-7, together with taking 5 wickets for 4 runs, as they bowled their opponents out for 119 at The Kia Oval on Sunday after which reached their victory goal of 36 in 5.2 overs.
Surrey seamers Dan Worrall (3-16) and Jordan Clark (3-24) shared six second-innings wickets – Clarke ending the match with eight scalps after taking 5-68 on day one – because the guests slipped seven down inside 19 overs and had been at risk of an innings defeat.
Migael Pretorious (54 off 45 balls) struck eight fours down the order to make sure Surrey must bat once more and Somerset did choose up two wickets earlier than being crushed, together with eradicating England’s Ollie Pope for one for the second time within the sport.
Pope was pinned lbw by Josh Davey having been bowled by Lewis Gregory a day earlier, whereas Dom Sibley (3) was caught off Kasey Aldridge, leaving Burns (20no off 20) and Jamie Smith (12no off 5) to clinch Surrey’s triumph.
Burns’ males have leapt to second in Division One and are 10 factors behind desk toppers Nottinghamshire, whereas Somerset are second backside and forward of solely Worcestershire, who misplaced to Durham inside two days at New Street on Saturday.
Surrey’s England quick bowler Gus Atkinson bagged two wickets on day one at The Kia Oval
Farhan impresses for Notts earlier than Duckett hits 23-ball fifty
Nottinghamshire drubbed a Sussex aspect who had been beforehand in second spot by 9 wickets at Trent Bridge, with 17-year-old off-spinner Farhan Ahmed and England batter Ben Duckett within the wickets and runs respectively on Sunday.
Farhan – the brother of England leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed – took two of the ultimate three Sussex wickets to fall to finish with figures of 4-54 and assist bowl the guests out for 278.
John Simpson (74) and Jack Carson (43) rallied Sussex from 167-7 as they placed on 87 for the eighth wicket, leaving unbeaten Nottinghamshire chasing 148 for a second win in 4 matches.
The hosts reached that focus on in 25.5 overs because of Haseeb Hameed (62no) and the quick-scoring Duckett (59no off 31), with the latter rebounding from a first-innings 9 to smoke a 23-ball half-century in his first match since England’s dismal Champions Trophy marketing campaign resulted in early March.
Hameed registered his second fifty of the sport, placing his title ahead as a contender to open with Duckett in Check cricket this summer time if England lose religion in Zak Crawley.
An alternative choice for England on the high of the order is Sussex’s Tom Haines, who scored 64 within the second innings towards Nottinghamshire and sits high of the Division One run-scoring charts on 513, forward of team-mate Simpson (463) and Hameed (443).
