{"id":304193,"date":"2025-07-30T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304193\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:08:15","slug":"county-championship-live-day-two-scores-radio-commentary-live-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304193\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship LIVE: Day two &#8211; scores, radio commentary &#038; live text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sloppy Surrey!published at 15:33 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>15:33 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Durham 153 &amp; 118-2 v Surrey 322<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6408585d-43bd-4d77-a16f-c07535808cb6.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Adam Lanigan<\/strong><br \/>BBC Sport reporter at Chester-le-Street<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As County Champions for the last three years, we have become used to the Surrey machine grinding down the opposition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With a 169-run lead at halfway, it felt like normal service was under way, but their hopes of pushing for victory today have been undermined by some uncharacteristically sloppy fielding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jordan Clark, Dan Lawrence and Ryan Patel have all dropped catches that could and should have been taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clark and Lawrence shelled caught and bowled chances, which came at good heights, but Patel&#8217;s drop off at a ball that looped towards him at bat-pad was a bad one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not quite Mike Gatting in India in 1993, but a bad drop, nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sloppy Surrey!published at 15:33 British Summer Time 15:33 BST Durham 153 &amp; 118-2 v Surrey 322 Adam LaniganBBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-304193","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\/114942817528698287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304193","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=304193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}