{"id":268028,"date":"2025-07-17T01:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268028\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T01:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:15:11","slug":"t20-blast-surrey-top-of-south-group-after-beating-middlesex-at-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268028\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 Blast: Surrey top of South Group after beating Middlesex at Lord&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Surrey moved to the top of the South Group in the T20 Blast with an eight-run win over Middlesex at Lord&#8217;s.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An opening partnership of 66 in the first six overs between Will Jacks, who top-scored with 52, and Ryan Patel got Surrey off to a quick start after choosing to bat first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Curran added a rapid 47 off 22 balls before being dismissed by Ryan Higgins (4-33) as the visitors posted 189-9 from their 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stevie Eskinazi (53) and captain Leus du Plooy (29) led Middlesex&#8217;s chase but both fell in the same Chris Jordan over to signal the end of their victory hopes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Du Plooy was narrowly run out by a direct hit before Eskinazi was caught at gully two balls later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some big-hitting from Luke Hollman (32 not out) gave Surrey nervous moments late on but his effort came just too late as Middlesex fell short on 181-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey moved to the top of the South Group in the T20 Blast with an eight-run win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-268028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114865932067092987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}