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
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.