Match Details
Saipavan: The third day has gone to Gloucestershire as they scored 443 runs in 120 overs for the loss of two wickets. They will need 10 more runs to avoid the follow-on. Gloucestershire trail by 160 runs with 8 wickets remaining. The opening Partnership between Chris Dent and Marcus Harris is 296 runs with both openers notching centuries. Then, in the afternoon session, they lost 2 back-to-back wickets. After that, the Surrey bowlers failed to take advantage early in the game as they failed to create further inroads.
After that Dent and Hammond put on a 142-run partnership for the third wicket helping them to come back in the game result of this Surrey goes home without a bowling bonus point. At the end of the day, Chris Dent and Miles Hammond were well settled on the pitch and unbeaten 207 runs in 389 balls and 75 runs off 124 balls respectively.
Earlier in the game, Surrey finished on 603 in their first
innings, with a brilliant unbeaten double-ton from Jamie Smith, and a
century from Jordan Clark. Jamie Smith scored the fourth double ton of his
career and remained unbeaten on 234. Smith and Clark put up a partnership
of 244 for the 8th wicket. Clark played an innings of 137 in
which he hit 15 fours and 2 sixes. Ollie Pope and Sam Curran played
half-centuries innings, both scored 84 and 64 respectively. Surrey reached a massive score of 603.
Another exciting day awaits us because Chris Dent
and Miles Hammond both are well set standing in the middle with Dent already past a double-ton and Hammond 25 short of his century. Now we expect some big shots from both the batters.
A warm welcome to the coverage of the Final day of County Division One fixture between Gloucestershire and Surrey played at the County ground in Bristol. I’m Saipavan Janaki and will be joined by Ayan Chatterjee and Ajay Ahire and our scorer Raju Khariya as we walk you through the day’s play.