| LV= County Championship Division One, Kia Oval (day 4) |
| Northamptonshire 357: Nair 150; Lawes 5-105 |
| Surrey 185: White 4-45 & 142-0: Burns 71*, Sibley 67* |
| Surrey (8 pts) drew with Northamptonshire (11 pts) |
| Match scorecard |
Surrey negotiated the ultimate day to attract with Northamptonshire on the Kia Oval and can take a slender benefit into the ultimate week of the County Championship season.
Northamptonshire might be relegated after they enforced the follow-on however did not make inroads within the second innings. They’re nonetheless and not using a win at The Oval since 1994.
Surrey have been requested to comply with on 172 runs behind after being bowled out for 185 in reply to Northamptonshire’s 357.
Openers Dom Sibley and Rory Burns batted diligently within the hour earlier than lunch towards some testing new-ball bowling from Northants’ seamers and all through the ultimate two periods in a few of the finest batting circumstances of a rain-affected 4 days.
The gamers got here off at 16:20 BST for unhealthy gentle and the gamers shook fingers with 19 overs remaining, Surrey had reached 142 with out loss, with Burns unbeaten on 71 and Sibley 67.
Surrey took eight factors to take them to 213, guaranteeing a lead over Essex – the magnitude of which was depending on the latter’s end result towards Hampshire at Chelmsford.
Within the closing spherical of video games beginning subsequent Tuesday, Surrey journey to Hampshire whereas Essex go to Northampton.
Surrey’s first innings, which resumed on 158-6, lasted for under one other 52 minutes and 11.2 overs on the ultimate morning as their remaining 4 wickets fell for simply 27 runs.
Jamie Overton, who had struck a counter-attacking half-century on the third afternoon, added a single earlier than edging Jack White to first slip on 51 and in White’s subsequent over, Dan Worrall was caught behind for a duck.
Tom Lawes made seven earlier than giving Karun Nair his second catch of the morning at slip, this time without work Ben Sanderson, and Ben Foakes – on 33 in a single day – was now left with final man Kemar Roach for firm with one other 34 required to save lots of the follow-on.
Foakes chipped away for some time however, on 42, went throughout his stumps in a bid to whip Tom Taylor’s fast-medium away to mid-wicket and was leg earlier than.
Taylor completed with first-innings figures of 2-39 and there have been additionally two wickets for each Sanderson and Luke Procter, in assist of the spectacular White’s 4-45.
With Northants needing a win the bowlers have been instantly given one other likelihood and Sibley survived two sturdy lbw appeals in successive overs from Sanderson on 12 and Taylor on 13, the primary pitching marginally outdoors the road and the second presumably sliding down the leg facet.
However after lunch it obtained simpler, with Burns passing fifty for the fourth time this season whereas Sibley lodged his fifth half-century of the summer season with few alarms.
By the top Northants had used 9 completely different bowlers, their hopes of victory and avoiding a return to Division Two over no matter what number of factors Kent and Middlesex picked up from their video games towards Somerset and Warwickshire respectively.
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