NAIK
HASTENS SURREY TO INNINGS DEFEAT by Marcus Hook
Surrey 236 & 183 v Leicestershire 479. Leicestershire win by an
innings and 60 runs.
With Leicestershire's Jigar Naik taking a career
best 7-96, Surrey sank to their fourth defeat season in the County
Championship, their first by an innings, to remain bottom of
Division Two going into the break for the Twenty20. Aside from
Younis Khan and Jade Dernbach's 46-run alliance in eight overs for
the last wicket, their performance on what proved to be the final
day looked as limp as did the Surrey flag on top of the Pavilion at
the Brit Oval, which stirred only occasionally in the muggy
conditions.
Surrey started their second innings four overs
before lunch. But, as was the case in their first dig, Mark
Ramprakash was taking his guard in the second over, this time after
Steven Davies, pushing half forward to Nathan Buck, went early to a
questionable LBW decision. But Ramprakash got off the mark with a
drive through extra cover off Harry Gurney for four.
After the food break, Arun Harinath edged Gurney
through the vacant third slip area down to the rope at third man
before flicking the 23-year-old left-armer to the fine leg boundary.
Harinath and Ramprakash then crept along at little more than a run
an over until the latter swept Henderson for four in the 24th.
The next over saw the introduction of Jigar Naik,
at the Pavilion End. The former Loughborough University student
dismissed another Loughborough old boy, Harinath, with his fifth
delivery, which Will Jefferson caught at slip after the ball had
taken a deflection off Tom New's left glove.
In the 26th over, Ramprakash cut Claude Hernderson
past slip to the rope at third man. In the next, Younis Khan drove
Naik straight down the ground for four. But with Ramprakash playing
on to Naik in the 29th over and Usman Afzaal being defeated by one
that skidded on to him two overs later, Surrey were 59-4, needing
another 184 to prevent an innings drubbing.
Rory Hamilton was next to go, falling to the fifth
ball after tea, when he was bowled by Henderson, looking to whip a
well flighted delivery through mid-wicket. Eleven overs later,
Gareth Batty was pinned on the crease by Naik. In the next over, the
52nd, Schofield was caught low down at silly point off Henderson.
Five overs later, Meaker went in similar fashion
to Schofield to give Naik his first ever five-wicket haul. In the
61st over, Chris Tremlett, looking for the big drive, was beaten by
the turn, though not before Younis had lifted the first of his three
sixes over long-on off the bowling of Naik.
The former Pakistan captain brought up his fifty,
which came from 94 deliveries, with the second. Jade Dernbach got in
on the act in the 65th over, before going, attempting to mow Naik
again, four overs later.
Earlier, with Surrey, resuming on 160-6 and
needing another 170 runs to avoid the follow-on, Afzaal cut Gurney
for four in the second over of the day. Eight overs later, Schofield
hit three boundaries in the space of four deliveries from Buck,
starting with a cut drive through extra cover, then a pull and
finally a cover drive.
In the 61st over, however, Schofield departed,
shouldering arms to Henderson. Six overs later, Afzaal, having
donned his Surrey first eleven cap, brought his fifty up with his
ninth boundary, which was despatched through extra cover. It was
only the second time this season the 32-year-old had posted a
championship half-century and it came from 91 deliveries.
Afzaal repeated the stroke two balls later, but in
the 69th over, driving, he was caught behind off a thick edge to
make it 219-8. Tremlett, on 0, was dropped at silly point off the
bowling of Henderson a couple of overs later. In the 74th over, the
former Hampshire man clubbed Naik back over his head, straight up
the ground for four.
Three overs later, Stuart Meaker slog swept
Henderson to the fence at deep square leg. However, after hitting
the next ball straight to du Toit at extra cover, Meaker was run out
when he called through Tremlett, whose advice was, eventually, to
retreat. With Dernbach going caught behind for a golden duck, to
give Henderson figures of 6-84, Surrey were stuck in again by
Matthew Hoggard.
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