County Championship Division from Vitality One, The Kia Oval (day two) Somerset 285: Lammonby 100; Steel 4-50Surrey: 358-6: Sibley 100, Burns 75Surrey (6 pts ) leads Somerset (3 pts) by 73 pointsMatch scorecard
Openers Sibley and Burns scored respectively 100 and 75, putting on 167 for the first wicket, as Surrey went from their unbeaten 42 overnight to 358-6, giving them a 73-run advantage at the halfway point.
The 2022 and 2023 champions will be looking for even more runs in the first innings, even though they lost Ben Foakes lbw for 57 in the closing overs as he was trying to flick a Lewis Gregory delivery behind. square.
Cameron Steel, however, is still there on 35 steps alongside Jordan Clark, who was undefeated for seven at stumps.
Jamie Smith also contributed a lovely 51 before falling to the second new ball when Craig Overton produced a beauty to uproot his stump.
The only surprise of the day was that England Test regular Ollie Pope n 'only made 11 before going into a deep square. leg, misfiring a short ball from Kasey Aldridge.
Sibley and Burns, 29 and 13 during the night , added another 113 runs from 31 overs in the morning session, the latter being dropped badly on the deep ropes of mid-wicket by Tom Banton to seamer Migael Pretorius on 56.
Somerset would have felt deflated at the missed opportunity but, to their credit, they then took three wickets on the afternoon with England recruit Shoaib Bashir making the first breakthrough when Burns edged wicketkeeper James Rew.
Pope came and went cheaply before left-arm spinner Lewis Goldsworthy, with his third ball, bowled Sibley shortly after the England Test in...
County Championship Division from Vitality One, The Kia Oval (day two) Somerset 285: Lammonby 100; Steel 4-50Surrey: 358-6: Sibley 100, Burns 75Surrey (6 pts ) leads Somerset (3 pts) by 73 pointsMatch scorecard
Openers Sibley and Burns scored respectively 100 and 75, putting on 167 for the first wicket, as Surrey went from their unbeaten 42 overnight to 358-6, giving them a 73-run advantage at the halfway point.
The 2022 and 2023 champions will be looking for even more runs in the first innings, even though they lost Ben Foakes lbw for 57 in the closing overs as he was trying to flick a Lewis Gregory delivery behind. square.
Cameron Steel, however, is still there on 35 steps alongside Jordan Clark, who was undefeated for seven at stumps.
Jamie Smith also contributed a lovely 51 before falling to the second new ball when Craig Overton produced a beauty to uproot his stump.
The only surprise of the day was that England Test regular Ollie Pope n 'only made 11 before going into a deep square. leg, misfiring a short ball from Kasey Aldridge.
Sibley and Burns, 29 and 13 during the night , added another 113 runs from 31 overs in the morning session, the latter being dropped badly on the deep ropes of mid-wicket by Tom Banton to seamer Migael Pretorius on 56.
Somerset would have felt deflated at the missed opportunity but, to their credit, they then took three wickets on the afternoon with England recruit Shoaib Bashir making the first breakthrough when Burns edged wicketkeeper James Rew.
Pope came and went cheaply before left-arm spinner Lewis Goldsworthy, with his third ball, bowled Sibley shortly after the England Test in...
