Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Rory Burns (c)	c Harmer b Quinn	19	52	72	2	0	36.53
Mark Stoneman	c †Wheater b Porter	2	10	21	0	0	20.00
Jason Roy	lbw b Porter	5	6	13	0	0	83.33
Ollie Pope	c Bopara b Cook	26	53	104	4	0	49.05
Ben Foakes †	lbw b Quinn	0	1	3	0	0	0.00
Will Jacks	b Cook	0	5	15	0	0	0.00
Ryan Patel	lbw b Cook	5	19	20	1	0	26.31
Rikki Clarke	lbw b Porter	0	5	7	0	0	0.00
Morne Morkel	c †Wheater b Porter	1	7	11	0	0	14.28
Jade Dernbach	b Cook	4	3	5	1	0	133.33
Amar Virdi	not out	1	1	4	0	0	100.00
Extras	(lb 4)	4
Total	27 Ov (RR: 2.48)	67
Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Mark Stoneman, 4.1 ov), 2-23 (Jason Roy, 6.4 ov), 3-41 (Rory Burns, 15.3 ov), 4-41 (Ben Foakes, 15.4 ov), 5-48 (Will Jacks, 18.3 ov), 6-54 (Ryan Patel, 22.4 ov), 7-55 (Rikki Clarke, 23.4 ov), 8-57 (Morne Morkel, 25.4 ov), 9-62 (Jade Dernbach, 26.3 ov), 10-67 (Ollie Pope, 26.6 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Jamie Porter	10	0	26	4	2.60	45	1	0	0	0
4.1 to MD Stoneman, . 13/1 6.4 to JJ Roy, . 23/2 23.4 to R Clarke, . 55/7 25.4 to M Morkel, . 57/8
Sam Cook	11	5	27	4	2.45	56	5	0	0	0
18.3 to WG Jacks, . 48/5 22.4 to RS Patel, . 54/6 26.3 to JW Dernbach, . 62/9 26.6 to OJ Pope, . 67/10
Matt Quinn	6	2	10	2	1.66	32	2	0	0	0
15.3 to RJ Burns, . 41/3 15.4 to BT Foakes, . 41/4

Essex 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Nick Browne	b Morkel	2	14	18	0	0	14.28
Murali Vijay	c †Foakes b Dernbach	80	127	201	10	0	62.99
Tom Westley	c †Foakes b Clarke	134	282	384	21	0	47.51
Dan Lawrence	lbw b Clarke	17	77	97	1	0	22.07
Ravi Bopara	b Virdi	8	24	33	1	0	33.33
Ryan ten Doeschate (c)	c Pope b Dernbach	27	40	56	5	0	67.50
Adam Wheater †	retired hurt	68	105	152	8	1	64.76
Simon Harmer	not out	102	156	176	11	2	65.38
Jamie Porter	lbw b Dernbach	1	13	15	0	0	7.69
Sam Cook	c †Foakes b Dernbach	1	4	8	0	0	25.00
Matt Quinn	not out	4	6	12	1	0	66.66
Extras	(b 7, lb 13, nb 12, w 1)	33
Total	140.2 Ov (RR: 3.39)	477/8d
Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Nick Browne, 4.2 ov), 2-158 (Murali Vijay, 47.2 ov), 3-205 (Dan Lawrence, 70.5 ov), 4-236 (Ravi Bopara, 79.3 ov), 5-276 (Ryan ten Doeschate, 91.6 ov), 6-282 (Tom Westley, 94.5 ov), 6-441* (Adam Wheater, retired not out), 7-449 (Jamie Porter, 134.6 ov), 8-456 (Sam Cook, 136.6 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Morne Morkel	30	6	84	1	2.80	141	11	0	0	2
4.2 to NLJ Browne, . 12/1
Jade Dernbach	29.2	8	95	4	3.23	136	15	0	1	0
47.2 to M Vijay, . 158/2 91.6 to RN ten Doeschate, . 276/5 134.6 to JA Porter, . 449/7 136.6 to SJ Cook, . 456/8
Rikki Clarke	29	9	65	2	2.24	139	8	0	0	0
70.5 to DW Lawrence, . 205/3 94.5 to T Westley, . 282/6
Ryan Patel	25	3	92	0	3.68	108	14	0	0	1
Amar Virdi	27	1	121	1	4.48	100	10	3	0	3
79.3 to RS Bopara, . 236/4

Surrey 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Rory Burns (c)	c & b Porter	21	37	54	3	0	56.75
Mark Stoneman	b Harmer	86	167	252	12	1	51.49
Jason Roy	c sub b Quinn	128	151	188	19	2	84.76
Ollie Pope	lbw b Coles	114	120	143	19	1	95.00
Ben Foakes †	lbw b Quinn	32	75	86	2	1	42.66
Will Jacks	c Harmer b Coles	53	87	125	5	2	60.91
Ryan Patel	c sub b Coles	38	148	173	6	0	25.67
Rikki Clarke	c sub b Coles	39	53	65	7	0	73.58
Morne Morkel	c Browne b Coles	0	2	6	0	0	0.00
Jade Dernbach	b Porter	2	14	30	0	0	14.28
Amar Virdi	not out	2	3	7	0	0	66.66
Extras	(b 14, lb 5, nb 6, w 1)	26
Total	142.2 Ov (RR: 3.80)	541
Fall of wickets: 1-63 (Rory Burns, 13.2 ov), 2-244 (Jason Roy, 57.5 ov), 3-249 (Mark Stoneman, 60.3 ov), 4-364 (Ben Foakes, 85.6 ov), 5-418 (Ollie Pope, 96.3 ov), 6-479 (Will Jacks, 118.1 ov), 7-532 (Rikki Clarke, 133.6 ov), 8-532 (Morne Morkel, 135.2 ov), 9-539 (Ryan Patel, 141.3 ov), 10-541 (Jade Dernbach, 142.2 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Jamie Porter	26.2	3	127	2	4.82	107	21	1	0	0
13.2 to RJ Burns, . 63/1 142.2 to JW Dernbach, . 541/10
Matt Quinn	28	3	115	2	4.10	123	17	1	1	1
57.5 to JJ Roy, . 244/2 85.6 to BT Foakes, . 364/4
Simon Harmer	50	10	122	1	2.44	241	15	2	0	0
60.3 to MD Stoneman, . 249/3
Matt Coles	32	5	123	5	3.84	140	15	2	0	2
96.3 to OJ Pope, . 418/5 118.1 to WG Jacks, . 479/6 133.6 to R Clarke, . 532/7 135.2 to M Morkel, . 532/8 141.3 to RS Patel, . 539/9
Ravi Bopara	1	0	17	0	17.00	1	4	0	0	0
Tom Westley	4	0	13	0	3.25	16	0	1	0	0
Dan Lawrence	1	0	5	0	5.00	4	1	0	0	0

Essex 2nd Innings (T: 132 runs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Murali Vijay	b Morkel	2	6	17	0	0	33.33
Nick Browne	c Clarke b Virdi	12	22	30	2	0	54.54
Tom Westley	c Clarke b Dernbach	20	46	54	2	0	43.47
Dan Lawrence	c Clarke b Dernbach	10	11	19	0	1	90.90
Ravi Bopara	c Jacks b Virdi	0	7	8	0	0	0.00
Ryan ten Doeschate (c)	not out	53	62	99	6	0	85.48
Adam Wheater †	c Patel b Morkel	11	11	22	2	0	100.00
Simon Harmer	c †Foakes b Morkel	0	3	4	0	0	0.00
Jamie Porter	lbw b Morkel	4	13	20	1	0	30.76
Matt Coles	run out (Jacks)	5	11	21	1	0	45.45
Matt Quinn	not out	0	6	21	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 4, lb 5, nb 8)	17
Total	32.2 Ov (RR: 4.14)	134/9
Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Murali Vijay, 3.2 ov), 2-25 (Nick Browne, 6.4 ov), 3-42 (Dan Lawrence, 11.1 ov), 4-47 (Ravi Bopara, 12.5 ov), 5-55 (Tom Westley, 15.6 ov), 6-97 (Adam Wheater, 21.2 ov), 7-97 (Simon Harmer, 21.5 ov), 8-111 (Jamie Porter, 25.5 ov), 9-124 (Matt Coles, 29.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Amar Virdi	11	0	73	2	6.63	36	10	1	0	2
6.4 to NLJ Browne, . 25/2 12.5 to RS Bopara, . 47/4
Morne Morkel	12	3	28	4	2.33	58	2	0	0	1
3.2 to M Vijay, . 13/1 21.2 to AJA Wheater, . 97/6 21.5 to SR Harmer, . 97/7 25.5 to JA Porter, . 111/8
Jade Dernbach	9.2	2	24	2	2.57	44	2	0	0	1
11.1 to DW Lawrence, . 42/3 15.6 to T Westley, . 55/5

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Close of Play

Mon, 24 Sep - day 1 - Essex 1st innings 197/2 (Tom Westley 93*, Dan Lawrence 11*, 67 ov)

Tue, 25 Sep - day 2 - Surrey 2nd innings 88/1 (Mark Stoneman 41*, Jason Roy 23*, 20 ov)

Wed, 26 Sep - day 3 - Surrey 2nd innings 477/5 (Will Jacks 52*, Ryan Patel 20*, 116 ov)

Thu, 27 Sep - day 4 - Essex 2nd innings 134/9 (32.2 ov) - end of match

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Day 2

Essex 1st innings
AJA Wheater (1) retired hurt at 441/6 (68, 130.6 overs)

Match Details

Kennington Oval, London
Toss	Surrey, elected to bat first
Series	Specsavers County Championship Division One
Season	2018
Series result	Surrey won the 2018 Specsavers County Championship Division One
Hours of play (local time)	10.30am start, Lunch 12.30-13.10, Tea 15.10-15.30, Close 17.30
Match days	24,25,26,27 September 2018 - day (4-day match)
ESS Player Replacement	Substitute: Matt Coles in, Sam Cook out (3rd innings, 8 ov)
Umpires	Alex Wharf Martin Saggers
TV Umpire	Billy Taylor
Points	Essex 22, Surrey 2

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Essex Innings

Player Name		R	B
M Vijay	bowled	2	6
NLJ Browne	caught	12	22
T Westley	caught	20	46
DW Lawrence	caught	10	11
RS Bopara	caught	0	7
RN ten Doeschate	not out	53	62
AJA Wheater	caught	11	11
SR Harmer	caught	0	3
JA Porter	lbw	4	13
MT Coles	run out	5	11
MR Quinn	not out	0	6
Extras	(b 4, lb 5, nb 8)
Total	134(9 wkts; 32.2 ovs)

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
A Virdi	11	0	73	2	6.63 (2 nb)
M Morkel	12	3	28	4	2.33 (1 nb)
JW Dernbach	9.2	2	24	2	2.57 (1 nb)

Wkt	Runs	Players
1st	13	Murali Vijay	Nick Browne
2nd	12	Tom Westley	Nick Browne
3rd	17	Tom Westley	Dan Lawrence
4th	5	Ravi Bopara	Tom Westley
5th	8	Ryan ten Doeschate	Tom Westley
6th	42	Ryan ten Doeschate	Adam Wheater
7th	0	Ryan ten Doeschate	Simon Harmer
8th	14	Ryan ten Doeschate	Jamie Porter
9th	13	Ryan ten Doeschate	Matt Coles
10th	10	Ryan ten Doeschate	Matt Quinn

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Specsavers County Championship Division One

Team	M	W	L	D	PT
SUR	14	10	1	3	254
SOM	14	7	2	4	208
ESS	14	7	4	2	187
YOR	14	5	5	3	158
HAM	14	4	5	5	144
NOT	14	4	8	2	133
LAN	14	3	7	3	133
WOR	14	2	10	2	104

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Team	M	W	L	D	PT
SUR	14	10	1	3	254
SOM	14	7	2	4	208
ESS	14	7	4	2	187
YOR	14	5	5	3	158
HAM	14	4	5	5	144
NOT	14	4	8	2	133
LAN	14	3	7	3	133
WOR	14	2	10	2	104

Team	M	W	L	D	PT
SUR	14	10	1	3	254
SOM	14	7	2	4	208
ESS	14	7	4	2	187
YOR	14	5	5	3	158
HAM	14	4	5	5	144
NOT	14	4	8	2	133
LAN	14	3	7	3	133
WOR	14	2	10	2	104

Team	M	W	L	D	PT
SUR	14	10	1	3	254
SOM	14	7	2	4	208
ESS	14	7	4	2	187
YOR	14	5	5	3	158
HAM	14	4	5	5	144
NOT	14	4	8	2	133
LAN	14	3	7	3	133
WOR	14	2	10	2	104