County Championship: Surrey take late wickets to turn things around against Kent

LV= County Championship Division One, Kia Oval (Day Two) Kent 278: Evison 77; Laws 3-41 & 80-4: Muyeye 42, Crawley 31; Lawes 2-2 Surrey 362: Abbott 78, Sibley 60, Atkinson 55*; Bhuyian 4-65, Agar 3-76 pts) by four runs with six wickets remaining) helped Surrey out of a hole for a total of 362 for an 84 lead in the first inning.
Kent then collapsed from 78-1 to 80-4 in the end as they lost Tawanda Muyeye, the night watchman Wes Agar and Jack Leaning in a dramatic finish, watched on the other side by England fly-half Zak Crawley, who will resume on Saturday morning the 31st.
Earlier, at 211-7, answering Kent's total of 278, Surrey was struggling for parity in the midgame until Abbott's mighty 88-ball 78 and the Atkinson's blistering half-century from issue 10, with three sixes and six fours.
It was also a memorable day for Kent debutant Arafat Bhuiyan, the Bangladesh-born dressmaker and British passport holder who was playing last weekend in the Kent League for Blackheath but took 4-65 including notable wickets of the English trio Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes, Will Jacks and Jamie Smith.
Having gained an 84-point lead in the first inning, Surrey then claimed Ben Compton's wicket alone as Kent came within eight runs of erasing the deficit.
Muyeye uppercut an Atkinson short ball for six against the third man in an entertaining but streaky 42, dominating a 58 partnership with Crawley.
But Lawes struck in his second over when the Zimbabwean skewed him through the middle, Agar was knocked down for a duck by Abbott on an inside edge in the next over . And then just five balls later, Leaning was played by Lawes to finish...

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County Championship: Surrey take late wickets to turn things around against Kent

Kent England fly-half Zak Crawley has now made 50 in the game after adding an unbeaten 31 to his first 19 innings

LV= County Championship Division One, Kia Oval (Day Two) Kent 278: Evison 77*; Laws 3-41 & 80-4: Muyeye 42, Crawley 31*; Lawes 2-2 Surrey 362: Abbott 78, Sibley 60, Atkinson 55*; Bhuyian 4-65, Agar 3-76 pts) by four runs with six wickets remaining) helped Surrey out of a hole for a total of 362 for an 84 lead in the first inning.

Kent then collapsed from 78-1 to 80-4 in the end as they lost Tawanda Muyeye, the night watchman Wes Agar and Jack Leaning in a dramatic finish, watched on the other side by England fly-half Zak Crawley, who will resume on Saturday morning the 31st.

Earlier, at 211-7, answering Kent's total of 278, Surrey was struggling for parity in the midgame until Abbott's mighty 88-ball 78 and the Atkinson's blistering half-century from issue 10, with three sixes and six fours.

It was also a memorable day for Kent debutant Arafat Bhuiyan, the Bangladesh-born dressmaker and British passport holder who was playing last weekend in the Kent League for Blackheath but took 4-65 including notable wickets of the English trio Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes, Will Jacks and Jamie Smith.

Having gained an 84-point lead in the first inning, Surrey then claimed Ben Compton's wicket alone as Kent came within eight runs of erasing the deficit.

Muyeye uppercut an Atkinson short ball for six against the third man in an entertaining but streaky 42, dominating a 58 partnership with Crawley.

But Lawes struck in his second over when the Zimbabwean skewed him through the middle, Agar was knocked down for a duck by Abbott on an inside edge in the next over . And then just five balls later, Leaning was played by Lawes to finish...