Abbott, Jacks end the job as Surrey keep tempo on the prime
Surrey 433 (Smith 138, Burns 79, Clark 78, Helm 6-110) and 78 for two (Jacks 45*) beat Middlesex 238 (Simpson 60, Holden 55, Abbott 3-37, Overton 3-45, Lawes 3-57) and 272 (Stoneman 72, Bamber 46*, Abbott 4-60) by eight wickets
Will Jacks struck a swift unbeaten 45 as Surrey motored to a snug eight-wicket victory over neighbours Middlesex inside an hour on the ultimate morning.
The LV= Insurance County Championship front-runners wanted solely 11.1 overs to chase down a modest goal of 78, finishing their second derby success of the season and a primary red-ball win at Lord’s for 26 years. Middlesex, who stay second from backside in Division One, have now misplaced 4 of their final 5 Championship fixtures.
“We were pretty clinical, I think, over three and a bit days,” Rory Burns, Surrey’s captain, mentioned. “There are a few bits we could have tidied up on but, if you’d offered us that before the start of the game, we’d have taken it. Particularly after getting inserted on the first morning, to put up 433 as a batting group and then back that up by making them follow on – and the way we went about it – I think it’s a big feather in our caps.
“I believed Jamie [Smith] performed fantastically [in the first innings] and Jordan [Clark] was in fairly good nick as nicely. The manner he got here in and performed was glorious, to get ourselves as much as that type of whole was good.
“It’s a tough shift, any time you make someone follow on – I think we had about 150 [overs] in the dirt there, back to back. To take 20 wickets and keep being quite relentless over that period is a massive effort. Getting a wicket second ball [today] is always handy. The weather probably had a part to play in our chase as well, we were looking to get it done as quickly as we could.”
With rain forecast for later within the day, Surrey had been eager to safe the end result as rapidly as doable after bowling their hosts out for 272, with seamer Sean Abbott returning figures of 4 for 60.
Abbott took solely two deliveries to complete off Middlesex’s second innings when play resumed, banging it briefly to final man Tim Murtagh, who might solely fend it off into the slip space and Dom Sibley took the catch.
That left Ethan Bamber stranded on a career-best 46 not out and Surrey with 78 to attain – simply 5 greater than the goal they chased to finish a nine-wicket victory towards Middlesex on the Oval in May.
First-innings centurion Smith was promoted to start the chase with Burns, however he lasted simply two balls on this event earlier than clipping Tom Helm tamely into the arms of midwicket. Helm picked up a second wicket, his eighth of the match, when Burns tried a paddle from outdoors off stump that was neatly taken by Murtagh at lengthy leg, however Jacks maintained momentum by clouting Bamber over the duvet boundary.
Tom Latham additionally struck a most off Helm earlier than hitting the successful runs off Mark Stoneman to complete unbeaten on 21.