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Surrey had to settle for a draw from their Championship Division One clash with Derbyshire despite the best efforts of Chris Tremlett and Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting has called time on his international career but he has not finished with English bowling as he marked his first-class Surrey debut with a century.

This was Derbyshire's day by some distance, the achievement of Wayne Madsen and Shivnarine Chanderpaul in setting a partnership record against Surrey underpinned by Richard Johnson's maiden half-century for the county

You could not fault Shivnarine Chanderpaul's timing, in any respect. On a stage set for Ricky Ponting it was the Guyanese who hogged the spotlight

Ricky Ponting watched the runs flow and the rain fall as his Surrey debut ended in a soggy anti-climax