GT wrote:It's next week isn't it? 16th-18th? Correct: http://www.britoval.com/news/second-xi- ... d-trafford

GT wrote:It's next week isn't it? 16th-18th? Correct: http://www.britoval.com/news/second-xi- ... d-trafford

Apologies...giddiness took over and I was a week ahead of myself!!

Lancs all out for 344 all out at Taunton,must be one of the smallest 1st inns scores this season at Somerset,says everything about our batting lineup.

Kent scored 652 for 7 with Darren Stevens scoring 208 and Justin Kemp getting 138 with Middlesex end day 2 on 109 for 4

See Yorkshire, that's the results you get when you give some of the younger players an opportunity...

Our reliance on the lower order to dig us out of holes is getting silly now.

Good job they did, as the gamble of only playing two front line quicks is backfiring hugely with Sussex closing in on 400 for the loss of just 5 wickets.

Game heading for a draw, but looks like they'll get the better of the bonus points as Yorkshire didn't pass 400 within the 120 overs so only got four batting points.

I wouldn't bet your house in it. I've seen Surrey lose two recent games at Essex & Kent and last week we came close to losing another to Northants after grinding our way to 400+ batting first, then conceded a first innings deficit to opponents who scored their runs faster. A first innings lead of 100 or so for Sussex would give them a real chance of forcing a result if they can make early inroads in the second innings.

Sussex won the Second XI Championship after Lancashire got into a great position and then imploded. Seems some things run right through the club...

It was actually Surrey, not Sussex, who won the Second XI Championship! Although as Tom Smith, on loan from Sussex, made 86 not out and took five wickets for Surrey perhaps that was a Freudian slip.

Just for the record, Surrey secured a "winning draw" by bowling out Lancs for a smaller first innngs total of 438 in what was theoretically a two innings match. If Lancs had neither overhauled Surrey's first innings score of 500/8 dec. nor been bowled out in their first innings the championship would have been shared.

It seems a bit strange that Jon Batty, who has played in every Championship match for the 1st XI and scored a century in the most recent one, was Surrey captain for this game. I assume there are eligibility rules for a game like this to stop anyone packing their team with first team players? The rest of the Surrey team for this game have played very little 1st XI cricket this year and a couple of 2nd team regulars including captain Laurie Evans were missing.