Will Jacks guides cautious Surrey in the direction of draw on tame last day
Nottinghamshire 399 (Young 145, Hameed 67, James 50, Abbott 3-85) and 118 for 1 drew with Surrey 355 (Clark 107, James 6-74) and 340 (Sibley 83, Latham 60, Jacks 60, Lawes 55, Hutton 5-91)
Brett Hutton’s fifth five-wicket haul of the season was the spotlight of the ultimate day at The Oval as Surrey’s LV= Insurance County Championship fixture with Nottinghamshire petered out right into a draw.
Hutton, who spent a portion of day one off the sector with what proved to be cramp, took 5 for 91 to take his tally for the season within the Championship to 41, placing him alongside Durham’s Chris Rushworth on the high of the wicket-taking standings.
South African leg-spinner Calvin Harrison offered nice help for Hutton with 3 for 99 to bowl out the hosts for 340 40 minutes after lunch. This was a heroic effort from the guests who, already with out the companies of Jake Ball, injured within the first innings, then misplaced Dane Paterson to what seemed to be a hip damage after only one supply with the brand new ball.
Will Jacks led the run-scoring for Surrey with a largely subdued 60, whereas there a maiden first-class 50 for Tom Lawes, however Surrey’s batting was overly cautious for too lengthy.
The eventual chase was 297 from 52 overs, however regardless of a stable begin from Ben Slater (39) and performing captain Haseeb Hameed (44 not out ) a draw was agreed with the guests 118 for 1.
Surrey started the day 156 forward with 5 wickets down, so have been understandably eager to keep away from a collapse which might have afforded the lads of Trent Bridge a extra snug chase. Consequently, progress from Lawes and Jacks was at finest regular, the primary speaking level being an unintended beamer by Paterson to Lawes from a ball which clearly slipped out of his hand.
The arrival of the brand new ball led briefly to a change of strategy as Jacks tried to interrupt the shackles with two fours from a Hutton over. Paterson’s unlucky damage appeared to assist the host’s trigger, however Hutton responded magnificently in adversity, trapping Jacks lbw earlier than sending first-innings centurion Jordan Clark packing by the identical means.
Surrey went to lunch on 299 for 7, 255 in entrance however anybody hoping they might have a fast dart on the resumption have been disenchanted as they chewed up greater than 11 overs in including an additional 41.
Lawes reached 50 in 106 balls earlier than Harrison had him fantastically caught at slip by Matthew Montgomery. The leg-spinner then turned catcher to take away Sean Abbott and provides Hutton his fourth sufferer.
The run-chase could have been extra tempting had Jamie Overton been given out caught at mid-wicket quickly afterwards, however the sq. leg umpire dominated the catch hadn’t carried and consequently one other seven overs slipped by earlier than Hutton wrapped up the innings.
Hameed and Slater noticed off the early swing from the Kookaburra within the run-chase, the latter greater than as soon as despatching the brief ball to the fence. However, the run-rate required which had begun at nearly six continued to rise. By the time Slater lower Jacks into the palms of Abbott at level from what proved the final ball earlier than tea to depart for 39, that fee was nearly seven.
A barrage of brief balls from Overton speedy submit the tea interval slowed down Nottinghamshire’s progress nonetheless additional and Hameed and Young batted with few alarms earlier than the 5pm handshakes.