Rothesay County Championship, Division One, The Kia Oval, Kennington (day two)
Nottinghamshire 184 & 147-3: Slater 37, Clarke 37*; Worrall 2-18
Surrey 162: Thomas 48, Burns 44; Stone 6-44
Notts (3pts) lead Surrey (3pts) by 169 runs with seven second-innings wickets remaining
Excellent quick bowling by Olly Stone, who took 6-44, put champions Nottinghamshire in management after two days towards Surrey on the Kia Oval.
Surrey misplaced their final eight wickets for 87 to be dismissed for 162, a primary innings deficit of twenty-two.
It was some comeback by Notts who had been 104-8 on day one and so they strengthened their place in a prolonged night session of 45 overs, reaching stumps on 147-3 – a lead of 169.
Pitches atThe Oval are inclined to turn into simpler to bat on days three and 4 and Surrey will not really feel they’re out of this recreation in the event that they make early inroads on Saturday.
However in what has been a high-quality tussle between the final two winners of the County Championship it’s Nottinghamshire, who held a five-point lead on the high coming into this match, with the benefit, thanks principally to the excellent Stone.
The 32-year-old, who made the final of his 5 Take a look at appearances on this floor lower than two years in the past, bowled a constantly laborious size in three spells from the Vauxhall Finish, difficult each edges of the bat repeatedly and troubling the batters with occasional steepling bounce.
For the primary hour or so, Surrey gave the impression to be constructing a place of energy after the early lack of nightwatchman Matthew Fisher, lbw when Brett Hutton swung one into his pads.
Rory Burns timed the ball properly when he took successive boundaries off Hutton, together with a stunning drive down the bottom, as he and Adam Thomas rigorously negotiated the brand new ball.
Thomas had some fortune alongside the way in which. He was put down by wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne on 21 and by Freddie McCann at second slip on 29, each off the luckless Hutton.
Their stand had swelled to 59 when Burns loosely upper-cut Stone to deep backward level and Stone and his group grabbed the initiative.
In the identical over Ollie Pope, launched to play within the recreation after he was ignored of England’s First Take a look at group, was squared up for a five-ball duck.
Josh Blake, substituting for Ryan Patel who injured a finger within the subject on day one, averted the hat-trick with a boundary off the splice to 3rd man however Stone had his tail up and struck twice in the identical over later in his spell.
The stubborn Thomas, who high scored with 48, was finally bowled by means of the gate by a ball which jagged again and debutant Mahipal Lomror edged his first supply to slide to offer Stone his five-for.
When Dillon Pennington took over from Stone, he instantly eliminated Ben Foakes, who persevered for 48 balls in making 12, with a supply which straightened and he then picked up Jordan Clark for 4.
Blake was caught behind propping ahead to left-arm spinner Liam Patterson-White, whose first-innings 76 now appears much more essential, and Stone returned to gather his sixth wicket when he bowled Tom Lawes (18) with one other supply which nipped away off the seam.
Surrey wanted to strike early and Dan Worrall obliged in his third over when skipper Haseeb Hameed misjudged the road to lose his off-stump for 4.
Ben Slater and McCann rigorously added 49 for the second wicket however McCann (22) was caught behind by way of an inside edge off Fisher.
Worrall got here again for a second spell and produced a magnificence to take away Slater for 37, the ball angling in on center and leg-stump earlier than nipping off the seam to seek out the surface edge.
However Joe Clarke and Jack Haynes safely negotiated the final 20 overs to make sure Stone’s toil earlier within the day was not in useless, with an unbroken partnership of 70.
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