Tom Bailey, Will Williams tear by Surrey to spearhead Lancashire victory
Lancashire 274 (Salt 56, Clark 4-47) and 293 (Williams 61, Salt 54, Worrall 3-69) beat Surrey 360 (Abott 87, Jacks 64, S Curran 52, Worrall 51) and 84 (Bailey 5-48, Williams 4-23) by 123 runs
Lancashire’s Tom Bailey and Will Williams took simply 45 minutes to finish their workforce’s 123-run triumph towards Surrey on day 4 on the Kia Oval – the county champions’ first defeat at their dwelling floor in first-class cricket in 19 matches, going again to August 2020.
Williams picked up 4 for 13 in simply 4.3 overs on the ultimate morning as Surrey had been routed for 84, giving him total figures of 4 for 23 whereas Bailey completed with 5 for 48.
The two quicks took solely 9.3 overs to grab Surrey’s final 5 second-innings wickets to finish a run of 18 first-class video games on the Oval through which the present LV= Insurance County Championship Division One leaders have received 12 and drawn the opposite six.
Bailey, whose heroic 11-over new-ball spell of 4 for 34 on the third night had helped to scale back Surrey to 57 for five in a single day – nonetheless 151 runs away from their 208 fourth-innings goal – made the preliminary breakthrough in his second over of the morning, having nightwatcher Tom Lawes caught behind for 10.
And then Williams received into the act, bowling Will Jacks for 20 within the subsequent over because the Surrey all-rounder shouldered arms to at least one that jagged again into him off the seam.
Batting was not easy towards a ball nonetheless fewer than 30 overs outdated and in overcast circumstances, with the Oval floodlights on, and later in the identical over Williams grabbed the wicket Lancashire wished above all others on the ultimate morning as Sam Curran was bowled off stump for 12 by one other very good ball angled throughout him by the New Zealander after which nipping again.
Williams, nonetheless, was nonetheless not completed. In his third over of the day the 30-year-old – who made 61 in a four-hour stint as nightwatcher, a maiden first-class half-century, in Lancashire’s second-innings 293 – had Sean Abbott taken by keeper Phil Salt for a duck.
Abbott had hit an unbeaten 87 in Surrey’s first innings of 360, including a exceptional 130 for the tenth wicket with Dan Worrall, however now the Australian was gone to his third ball and at 75 for 9, having misplaced 4 wickets in 20 balls, Surrey might solely hope for an additional closing wicket miracle.
It didn’t come this time, with Worrall ending six not out as Jordan Clark, aiming a giant hit, skied Williams to mid off to go for 4 and spark Lancashire celebrations. This was Lancashire’s second win of the championship season, they usually stay unbeaten; for title favourites Surrey, nonetheless, it’s a sobering setback.