| LV= County Championship Division One, Ageas Bowl (day one) |
| Hampshire 219: Brown 78; Lawes 5-27, Roach 3-41 |
| Surrey 47-2: Sudharsan 20*; Abbas 2-20 |
| Hampshire 0pts, Surrey 3pts |
| Match scorecard |
Tom Lawes claimed 5-27 as Surrey took three of the 5 factors they must be topped county champions for the second 12 months in a row.
All-rounder Lawes rolled by the Hampshire center order for his third five-for of the season, with Kemar Roach selecting up 3-41.
Hampshire constructed their below-par 219 round Ben Brown’s constructive 78 earlier than Mohammad Abbas pinned again Surrey, who ended the day on 47-2, a deficit of 172.
All Surrey now must do is keep away from defeat to forestall Essex from overtaking them – however scoring at the very least 300 and selecting up two batting factors shall be sufficient in any occasion.
Early morning rain noticed the toss delayed by an hour earlier than Surrey select to bowl, with Jamie Smith and Will Jacks more likely to increase their batting line-up later within the recreation as soon as they return from England obligation.
It took till the ninth over for Surrey to open up the Hampshire high order as Toby Albert jabbed unconvincingly at Roach to edge to second slip Jamie Overton.
Within the West Indian’s following over he had Nick Gubbins chopping on from a floaty ball exterior off stump.
Level certainly one of 5 was chalked off within the 18th over when James Vince’s back-foot swish was devoured up by Overton to offer Lawes his first wicket along with his fourth ball.
The pitch didn’t seem to have any demons, however Hampshire’s batters struggled to impose themselves on correct Surrey bowling.
Fletcha Middleton was a tremendous instance of that as he battled laborious for 52 balls earlier than shedding the battle of persistence towards Jordan Clark, who cleaned out his off stump.
Lawes had been pressured to attend till senior bowlers Roach, Dan Worrall, Clark and Overton had had their go, however the 20-year-old outshone all of them.
The tempo bowler claimed 5-105 towards Northamptonshire final week and tore aside Hampshire’s center order.
After Vince, Tom Prest was Lawes’ subsequent sufferer when final week’s century maker adopted his captain in wafting on the again foot, this time Ben Foakes grabbed the easy catch.
The match-winner in Hampshire’s victory over Essex final week, which put the title inside Surrey’s grasp, Liam Dawson failed to copy his heroics as he drove to second slip.
Ian Holland caught round to placed on 33 with Brown, who was beginning to get into his work, earlier than Roach returned to strangle him down the leg aspect.
Brown was pressured to information the tail by proceedings to get the rating towards respectability, with stands of 55 and 45 with James Fuller and Kyle Abbott.
The wicketkeeper has had a disappointing season with the bat within the Championship, with this solely his third fifty of the marketing campaign – his 10 boundaries all got here sq. or behind the wicket as he made a 63-ball half-century.
Fuller fell after a nicely-crafted 25 when he was lbw to spinner Cam Metal earlier than Brown gave a fourth wicket to Lawes and a fourth catch to second slip Overton.
It meant a 3rd level within the bag for Surrey and Abbas was the final to fall for a four-ball duck when Lawes pinned him leg earlier than.
Surrey had 20 overs to bat out underneath the now clear skies on the Ageas Bowl, however Abbas had different concepts as Dom Sibley faintly edged behind and Rory Burns performed on to his personal stumps earlier than Ryan Patel and Sai Sudharsan rigorously guided the guests to the shut.
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