Rothesay County Championship, Division One, The Kia Oval, Kennington (day three)
Nottinghamshire 184 & 306: Clarke 95; Worrall 4-39, Fisher 4-67
Surrey 162: Stone 6-44 & 183: Pope 111; Stone 4-50, Pennington 3-46
Notts (19pts) beat Surrey (3pts) by 145 runs
Olly Stone joined the good Harold Larwood within the pantheon of Nottinghamshire quick bowlers because the champions crushed Surrey by 145 runs at The Kia Oval.
Stone claimed match figures of 10-94, previous to which the latest Notts cricketer to take 10 or extra towards Surrey at The Oval was Larwood in 1936.
Surrey, requested to attain 329 to win after bowling out Notts for a second-innings 306, crumbled to 183 all out with Stone including 4-50 to his magnificent first-innings’ 6-44 when Surrey had been dismissed for 162.
Solely Ollie Pope, final out for a defiant 111, provided any resistance as Surrey – champions in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and runners-up to Notts final yr – had been humbled by a facet who on day one had been in determined hassle at 104-8.
Liam Patterson-White’s good unbeaten 76 began the turnaround on Thursday, hauling Notts as much as 184, nevertheless it was Stone who was the clear distinction between the 2 sides as he terrorised Surrey with tempo bowling of the very best class.
Stone started Surrey’s slide by having Dom Sibley caught behind for six in his third new-ball over. Then, in his subsequent, he eliminated Adam Thomas with an excellent rising supply that once more caught a skinny edge.
Brett Hutton had Rory Burns athletically caught at second slip for 16 off a sliced lower and Ben Foakes was bowled by Dillon Pennington for one to depart Surrey 45-4.
Left-hander Mahipal Lomror quickly adopted, once more bowled by Pennington from across the wicket, and Stone returned for a nine-over spell during which he bounced out Josh Blake for 15, caught at sq. leg, earlier than bowling Tom Lawes for one.
Patterson-White’s left-arm spin had accounted for Jordan Clark, bowled for 2, and Stone scored a direct hit from quick third man to expire Matt Fisher for 11.
Dan Worrall stayed to ensure Pope accomplished his twenty sixth first-class hundred, and 14th on the Oval, earlier than skying Pennington, who completed with 3-46.
Earlier Joe Clarke’s very good, managed 95 was the mainstay of Notts’ batting effort, along with his fifth-wicket century partnership with Kyle Verreynne making certain a match-winning lead.
However the Notts tempo assault, led by Stone however with glorious help from Pennington and Hutton, proved too sizzling for Surrey to deal with for the second time within the sport.
This yr’s Championship, with 5 extra rounds nonetheless to go, is proving to be one of many hardest-fought and compelling in current reminiscence – solely 27 factors separated the highest eight firstly of the six-game run-in.
However Notts’ nice victory over their closest rivals of the previous two seasons will consolidate their lead on the prime of Division One and enhance the chance that they will clinch back-to-back titles.
A seismic third day started with Worrall pinning Jack Haynes lbw for 34 with the sixth ball of the morning and with out addition to Notts’ in a single day 147-3.
Clarke and Verreynne, nonetheless, then added 110 in 27 overs for the fifth wicket. However, in 15 balls both facet of lunch, Notts misplaced 4 wickets for only one run to plunge from 257-4 to 258-8, with Fisher the principle protagonist in an exquisite spell from the Vauxhall Finish.
First Fisher bowled Clarke within the seventy fifth over, getting reverse swing with the previous ball and hitting the off stump with a lovely supply that additionally appeared to maintain a bit of low.
Lomror’s sluggish left arm performed an element, with Ben Martindale well stumped by Foakes within the subsequent over after lacking a ahead defensive.
Fisher’s subsequent two strikes got here from successive balls, both facet of lunch, with Verreynne bowled off stump for a gritty 83-ball 46 by an unplayable supply.
After which, instantly after the interval, Stone edged to Foakes to present Fisher his fourth wicket and Surrey hoped the competition had all of the sudden veered their means.
Patterson-White, Hutton and Pennington, although, garnered an additional invaluable 48 runs for the final two wickets – Patterson-White hitting Lomror straight for six earlier than on 12 edging Worrall’s first supply with the second new ball to Foakes.
However the final pair pissed off Worrall and a tiring Fisher so as to add 30, quantity 11 Pennington trying significantly snug with 20 not out till Hutton was leg-before to a returning Lawes for 14.
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