OUTLAWS POUNCE EARLY TO END SURREY'S UNBEATEN RUN
by Marcus Hook
Surrey 123 (33.4 Overs) v Nottinghamshire Outlaws 124-5 (30.3).
Nottinghamshire Outlaws win by 5 wickets
Nottinghamshire ended Surrey’s unbeaten run in the Clydesdale Bank 40
by winning a one-sided contest at Guildford with 57 balls and five
wickets to spare. With Harry Gurney taking four for 22 and Darren
Pattinson three for 27, the Outlaws required just 124 for victory,
which was never seriously in doubt after James Taylor - who made an
unbeaten 41 off 57 balls - and Samit Patel had seized the initiative
with a third wicket stand of 57 in 14 overs.
Having elected to bat on the same pitch as the one
that yielded over 900 runs for the loss of twelve wickets in the
County Championship, Surrey slumped to 8 for five before recovering to
make 123, their lowest total in limited-overs cricket for seven years
and their worst in one-day cricket at Guildford since mustering just
92 against Gloucestershire in 1980.
The hosts lost Jason Roy to the third ball, leg
before to Patel, Steven Davies to the ninth, caught at first slip off
Pattinson, and Gary Wilson to the tenth, caught behind. With Zander de
Bruyn falling to an excellent head high catch at second slip by Adam
Voges and Rory Burns toe-ending a drive off Pattinson to mid-on, the
home side were at sixes and sevens.
But thanks to Matthew Spriegel, who countered with
39 off 76 balls, Surrey eventually found their feet. The 25-year-old
left-hander steered Harry Gurney down to the third man boundary to
ironic cheers, before clipping Pattinson through square leg for four.
But ten overs later, Zafar Ansari lofted Jake Ball
to Riki Wessels, who held on to a tumbling catch running back from
mid-off to make it 46 for six. Spriegel was joined by Gareth Batty and
together they added 43 in 11 overs. Batty despatched Patel to the rope
at long-on and cover drove Steven Mullaney for four.
But Surrey were pegged back further when Gurney
picked up three wickets in eight deliveries. Batty, attempting to
force the former Leicestershire man off the back foot, was caught
behind for 24.
Spriegel, shaping to cut, had his off stump pushed
back. Lewis, who clubbed three boundaries in 11 balls, edged behind
and Michael Lumb drew a line under the Surrey innings when held on to
a sharp chance at short fine leg off Ball to see the back of Murali
Kartik.
In reply, Nottinghamshire lost Lumb to a run out,
when Lewis pounced on Alex Hales’s defensive push to backward point
off Spriegel. Three overs later, Hales collected two successive fours
off Stuart Meaker, only to depart a couple of balls later to a lofted
catch at deep square leg.
Taylor cut a no-ball from Meaker for four before
lifting the free hit back over the bowler’s head. But shortly after
despatching Batty to the rope at extra cover, Patel was caught at slip
off Kartik.
With just 29 needed off 100 balls the writing was on
the wall, notwithstanding the loss of Voges, who was caught behind
looking to launch Kartik into the car park at the Railway End. Having
just been dropped by Jason Roy at short mid-on, the gloss was taken off the
Outlaws’ victory when Wessels then fell to a leading edge off Batty.
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