SURREY VS GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROYAL LONDON CUP

SURREY HAVE NAMED A FOURTEEN MAN SQUAD FOR THE ROYAL LONDON ONE DAY CUP GAME AGAINST GLOUCESTERSHIRE AT THE KIA OVAL ON WEDNESDAY.
Tom and Sam Curran return to the squad after playing for the England Lions in their successful Tri-Series against Sri Lanka A and Pakistan A. Zafar Ansari is unavailable for selection due to a back injury.
James Burke and Gary Wilson are left out from the squad against Essex
The Surrey squad to play Gloucestershire in the Royal London One Day Cup at the Kia Oval on Wednesday 27th July:
Gareth Batty (capt)
Rory Burns
Sam Curran
Tom Curran
Steven Davies
Jade Dernbach
Aaron Finch
Ben Foakes
Mark Footitt
Stuart Meaker
Mathew Pillans
Jason Roy
Dominic Sibley
Freddie van den Bergh
Pillans,Footitt and (sorry guildford) burger van to miss out for me
Over to you chaps  

Agree on Pillans and Freddie, reckon it's hard to say between Footit and Meaker. Meaker probably shades the last place as otherwise we're overloaded with new ball bowlers.

tl;dr I agree with Jimbob

Thanks for the thread, JimBob.

Agree with you on the team although also with James that Footitt will probably push Meaks close for the last place.

I'm not screaming for Burger Van to play - just sorry for him that it looks like being a wasted season. Tomorrow's wicket was probably prepared with spinners in mind (at the time - Batty, Ansari and perhaps Sibley) - however, I still can't see that getting him in the side when it's tricky anyway to fit in the returning Currans.

Surrey win toss and bat
Team as expected

Cracking run rate after 24 overs but 3 down. Just need to watch we don't get bowled out.

guildfordbat wrote:Cracking run rate after 24 overs but 3 down. Just need to watch we don't get bowled out.

219-6 with 14 left - looks like we might!

Curran boys doing us proud here!

323-8, would've settled for that at the start

Jade on a hat trick

135 - 6 after 28 overs.  Sounds like a really good performance so far.  Excellent partnership by the Currans to haul us up to a decent total, and then a great opening burst by Dernbach.  Batty and Meaker recently chipped in with 3 more wickets. Gloucs required run rate about 8.5 so by no means impossible for them to win.  We need to keep taking wickets and or to get the RRR well into double figures.

Marshall falls to Meaker.  So that's the three wickets gone for six runs.

143 - 8 and a third wicket for Batty.   178 to win from 20 overs. Possible - but only 2 wickets left.

Now 151 - 9 and a fourth wicket for Batty.

Batty finishes off the tail with 5 - 41.  Sounds like an excellent all round performance with good contributions from all the bowlers, and a number of the batsmen - Roy, Davies, Sibley, Burns, Curran, Curran.

I wasn't able to follow the game beyond the halfway point of our innings but it certainly seems an impressive win. As the Corporal says, lots of good contributions - partnership between the Currans being particularly important.

Although we started with a decent run rate, I had been concerned that both openers were back in the hutch in the 8th over - that could have triggered us being, say, all out for 200 in 40. Glad my concerns were unfounded.