Surrey stutter in second innings as Nottinghamshire sense an opportunity
Surrey 355 (James 6-74) and 200 for five (Sibley 83, Latham 60) lead Nottinghamshire 399 (Young 145, Hameed 67, James 50, Abbott 3-85) by 156 runs
Ben Foakes gave the England selectors one other reminder of his beautiful glovework on an in any other case blended day for latest discards from the nationwide group in Division One leaders Surrey’s conflict with Nottinghamshire.
Foakes confirmed breathtaking talent to take away Notts’ centurion of day two Will Young for a powerful 145, however regardless of this superb act of agility the guests, helped by 50 from all-rounder Lyndon James reached 399 all out, a lead of 44 on first innings, Sean Abbott the decide of the house bowlers with 3 for 85.
Rory Burns bagged a pair when Surrey batted once more, however Dominic Sibley, one other of the previous England openers forged apart within the Ben Stokes/ Brendon McCullum period confirmed glimpses of fluency which belied his status as being too stodgy for ‘Bazball’.
The proper hander, dropped on 75, ultimately made 83, sharing a second wicket stand of 141 with Tom Latham who made 60, however the lack of late wickets left the hosts 200 for five, a lead of 156.
Most of Nottinghamshire’s early batting impetus got here from Tuesday’s nightwatchman Brett Hutton who plundered 5 boundaries earlier than edging Jordan Clark to Tom Latham at second slip.
Young, having resumed 106 not out, solid on and when the hosts tried an England type brief ball barrage courtesy of Jamie Overton the New Zealand Test batter pulled him fiercely for 4 earlier than sending the subsequent delivering crusing over the ropes.
Something particular could be wanted to take away him and it was Foakes who supplied the mandatory inspiration.
Foakes has discovered himself forged apart, his glovework thought-about secondary to Jonny Bairstow’s belligerent batting. The clamour for Foakes to return has grown ever louder amid Bairstow’s woes behind the stumps within the Ashes sequence so far, regardless of his retention for subsequent week’s fourth Test.
With Will Jacks known as into the assault, Young opted to reverse-sweep his first ball. With Young’s bat in his eyeline, Foakes brilliantly held on to the top-edge and had the presence of thoughts to stump the Kiwi, who’d overbalanced enjoying the shot, simply in case his sensible catch had escaped discover. The consequence was the uncommon sight of a batter being despatched on his method by each umpires concurrently.
James pushed on so as to add a half-century to his career-best 6 for 74 in Surrey’s first dig, sharing a stand of 64 with Calvin Harrison.
Abbott eliminated James and Dane Paterson in successive balls because the guests completed one shy of 400, Surrey failing to safe most batting factors for the primary time this season. Latham completed with 5 catches within the innings.
Burns fell lbw to Hutton for the second time within the match, the ball destined to pluck out center stump had the ‘Brown Hatters’ skipper’s pad not interrupted its progress.
Thereafter although Notts’ assault, shorn of Ball’s providers toiled for a time as Sibley and Latham seemed untroubled.
Sibley, thought to be an onside performed unfurled a trio of off/cowl drives in reaching 33 in his first 35 balls. Latham was much less expansive, however the pair raised the century stand quickly after tea earlier than Sibley received the race to 50 helped by eight fours. Latham quickly adopted courtesy of six boundaries.
Latham was strangled out down the legside off Paterson and Jamie Smith missed out with the hosts precisely 100 forward.
Sibley was missed at slip when 75 however did not profit from the reprieve, slog-sweeping Matthew Montgomery into the fingers of Paterson on the deep mid-wicket fence, and Foakes was caught behind within the loss of life throes of the day to depart Nottinghamshire with the initiative forward of day 4.