RESULT
The Oval, August 16 - 17, 2000, PPP Healthcare County Championship Division One
118 & 97

Surrey won by an innings and 45 runs

Report

Surrey beat Derbyshire by an innings

After their poor batting performance of the morning Surrey's nerves were set jangling further by a good opening stand between Stubbings and Sutton - who was standing in for Lacey

Ed Green
17-Aug-2000
PPP Healthcare County Championship
After their poor batting performance of the morning Surrey's nerves were set jangling further by a good opening stand between Stubbings and Sutton - who was standing in for Lacey. Both players did well to keep out Bicknell while scoring rapidly at the other end. Gary Butcher was introduced to the attack to try for five in five, he too was unable to break the partnership though and Derbyshire seemed on the verge of playing their way back into a game they had been comprehensively played out of on the first day..... Until Salisbury joined the fray around a quarter past three to deliver the twentieth over of the innings. At that time the score stood at 65 for 0 and a further three runs came from the first part of his over, one hour, thirteen and a half overs and twenty-nine runs later it was all over.
Shahid and Hollioake's close catching combined once again with another demostration of wonderful spin bowling and some baffled and terrified batting to wipe out a second innings, Saqlain - who's figures stood at 2-0-5-0 when his partner in crime joined him in the attack took a devastating seven for six in the next seven and a half overs while at the other end Salisbury, who's turn it was to have less luck with the edge bagged 3-25.
Dowman sought, for a brief time successfully, to survive and Munton, taking an intelligent view of his long term survival prospects, swung the bat gamely for thirteen runs, entertaining in classic tailenders fashion before offering a dolly caught and bowled to Saqlain but the rest of the team faded away so fast that it might have made some of their hosts feel undeservedly better about the morning's batting effort.
In the end eighteen wickets had fallen in less than two sessions of play on a blameless surface, it started to rain forty minutes after the close, drawing a veil over procedings. Surrey will be glad for innings win and their seventeen points and hope that the three batting points dropped do not cost them dearly while Derbyshire are now almost certainly destined for division 2.
Saqlain was delighted with his short day's work and season's best figures. He has now overtaken Martin Bicknell once more in their private two horse race to be CC1's leading wicket taker with 57 wickets to Bicknell's 56, Bicknell will hope to retake the lead at Scarborough.

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