BAD
LIGHT AND RAIN CURTAIL SURREY'S PROGRESS by Marcus Hook
Surrey 380 v Glamorgan 72-2.
A combination of bad light and rain resulted in
just 45 overs being sent down on day two of the Division Two clash
between Surrey and Glamorgan at the Brit Oval, which ended with the
visitors on 72-2 in response to Surrey's 380 all out.
In the nine overs that were possible before lunch,
Surrey added 19 to their overnight score for the loss of Gareth
Batty, who was bowled playing across the line to Jim Allenby.
Chris Schofield's first championship fifty of the
season, which came off 107 balls, arrived shortly after the break.
At the other end, Chris Tremlett gave a hint that the home side were
on course for all five batting points when he reeled off two
successive straight driven fours off Huw Waters.
But with the seamers gaining assistance from the
cloud cover as well as the second new ball, Harris and Allenby
polished off the last three Surrey wickets in the space of 32
deliveries.
Tremlett was brilliantly caught in front of first
slip by Mark Wallace. Having just driven James Harris to the point
boundary to move to 63, Schofield then lost his off stump trying to
work the 20-year-old seamer through wide mid-on. Three overs later,
Stuart Meaker was the last Surrey man to go, caught behind off
Allenby having a waft.
Facing a follow-on target of 231, the Welshmen
lost Gareth Rees in the seventh over of their reply when he was
trapped on the crease by Tremlett, though not before he had worked
the former England and Hampshire fast bowler down to the rope at
deep backward square leg for four.
Tremlett, who looked back to his best, and
Dernbach gave Mark Cosgrove ample opportunity have a nibble down the
leg-side, but the 26-year-old Australian refused to take the bait.
Instead, Cosgrove opted to violently despatch anything wide of his
off stump to the cover boundary until, in the 12th over, a moment of
indecision resulted in him being castled by Stuart Meaker.
At tea, the visitors were 55-2, but only further
19 balls were possible before the heavens opened, putting paid to
any more action. In that time, however, Jamie Dalrymple and Ben
Wright gave Glamorgan hope of getting back into the match. At
stumps, the third wicket pair had successfully negotiated nine
testing overs.
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