Surrey’s strength in recent years has been in bowling first with 20 of their 27 wins across the last four seasons coming this way.<\/p>\n
With a one-point lead at the top at the start of this week’s round of matches, they made a fine start after lunch, as Clark had Durham captain Alex Lees lbw for 20, coming round the wicket.<\/p>\n
However, the pitch was playing nicely as Gay and Ben McKinney put on 73 for the second wicket until 20-year-old McKinney tried to go big off Kishore and was well caught by Lawrence diving forward at long on for 24.<\/p>\n
Gay had stylishly moved to 97 off 96 balls after tea, hitting 11 fours and a six, and seemed certain to score a fourth hundred of the season, but Surrey tied him down until he clipped Sam Curran to midwicket to fall one short with the score 173-3.<\/p>\n
Robinson tried to be positive, but that was his undoing as he tried to hit against the left-arm spin of India’s Kishore and skied a catch to long-off.<\/p>\n
And Surrey took a real stranglehold as Ackermann went to a bat-pad catch off Lawrence to leave the hosts 219-5.<\/p>\n
Night-watchman Codi Yusuf got through to the close, but Durham, looking over their shoulders in eighth place, have it all to do on day three to avoid defeat.<\/p>\n
It could have been even better for Surrey but for three dropped catches, which cost 110 runs, but they will still be confident of heading south with a fourth win of the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey’s strength in recent years has been in bowling first with 20 of their 27 wins across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-304764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944012687577326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304764","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=304764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}