Australians Sean Abbott and Dan Worrall have performed their half in one of the vital extraordinary triumphs in county championship historical past – but it surely was England’s outdated stonewaller Dom Sibley who proved Surrey’s final affected person hero.
Completing the second-highest profitable run chase within the annals of the championship at Canterbury on Wednesday, Surrey reached 5-501 to beat Kent by 5 wickets.
Sibley’s exceptional marathon, unbeaten 140 from 415 balls – which spanned 9 hours and 40 minutes – noticed the guests house.
Abbott, who’s had a superb summer time for the English first division champions within the red- and white-ball video games, had earlier within the match helped arrange the unlikely win, taking 4-52 in Kent’s first innings and one other wicket within the second.
Worrall, Surrey’s main bowler final 12 months who’s already snaffled 28 wickets this time period, took 1-55 within the first innings, adopted by 3-63.
In the week the Ashes shall be in thrall to the brand new ‘Bazball’ method, it felt like a quaint reminder of one other age as Sibley, who three years in the past scored the slowest England Test hundred for 20 years, led Surrey previous their earlier highest chase of 410 again in 2002.
Only as soon as within the county championship had a facet chased greater than 500 to win, Patsy Hendren’s 206no pushing Middlesex to 6-502 to beat Nottinghamshire by 4 wickets at Trent Bridge method again in 1925.
At the beginning of the ultimate day, Kent had wanted seven wickets and Surrey 238 runs however dropped England keeper Ben Foakes (124) was instrumental in serving to Sibley make the goal look very simple after Jamie Smith’s swift hundred on Tuesday had set the tempo.
It was a troublesome day for Kent’s Australian Wes Agar. After taking 3-32 within the first innings after which scoring 51 within the house facet’s opening knock, his figures of 1-119 off 33 overs second time round made little influence.
Sussex allrounder Nathan McAndrew earned them a attract an exciting second division contest towards Worcestershire at Hove, the place any consequence remained attainable going into the ultimate over, bowled by the person from Wollongong.
Worcestershire wanted simply 9 runs with three wickets nonetheless standing to succeed in their goal of 386 however McAndrew (3-76) proved nerveless, taking a wicket with the primary ball and giving up simply three off the over.
Joe Leach wanted a six off the ultimate ball to earn a well-known win however McAndrew had him swing and miss, leaving the guests stranded on 8-381.
For Glamorgan, Sydney’s Dutch worldwide Timm van der Gugten knuckled down with an unbeaten 52 off 146 balls and aided wicketkeeper Chris Cooke (134no) in an unbeaten partnership of 153 to bat them safely to a draw towards Durham at Chester-le-Street.
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