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SOMERSET SABRES V SURREY LIONS at Taunton (TSL2), 2 MAY 2005
Surrey find Somerset, who have drawn blanks against Durham
UCCE as well as in their opening two championship fixtures, breathing a sigh of
relief after struggling to pick up their first win of the new season.
In the totesport League the Cidermen made a very handy
start in their first outing, against Warwickshire, by scoring 254-5 before the
elements intervened. That included a wonderful 107 off 134 balls by Michael
Burns and half-centuries from Parsons and the highly promising Hildreth, who
struck 54 in 36 deliveries. But the Sabres could not repeat that level of effort
last week against Yorkshire, who knocked off the requirement with more than five
overs remaining.
However, in their third one-day league match, at home to
Leicestershire today, John Francis (73*) and Keith Parsons (91*) put on an
unbeaten 157 for the third wicket to register Somerset's first success, which
was set up by Gareth Andrew's 3-48 and a miserly stint of 9-2-17-2 from Aaron
Laraman.
How the visiting Lions must have wished that the Foxes
could do them a favour. Surrey's attack for tomorrow's encounter will be shorn
of Azhar Mahmood, Martin Bicknell, Rikki Clarke and Tim Murtagh, and the
Ovalites' recent record at Taunton is nothing to write home about - just one win
from their previous six one-dayers there.
The Sabres bat all the way down to number eight in
limited-overs cricket, and perhaps a symptom of this was that last summer they
lacked a couple of batsmen capable of capitalising on a decent start. Sanath
Jayasuriya is yet to match the output previously attained by Jamie Cox, who has
gone back to Tasmania, so the only batter on show tomorrow who has been there
and done it on a consistent basis in the last twelve months is Parsons (535 runs
at a strike rate of 90.83 per 100 balls in List A cricket in 2004).
Last term Simon Francis was Somerset's leading
wicket-taker in List A cricket (24 scalps at 25.08 runs apiece, including
figures of 8-66 against Derbyshire in the C&G Trophy). McLean and Parsons
chipped in on occasions while Andrew, a 21-year-old off spinner, impressed in
his nine one-day outings.
Surrey's luck has got to change soon in the totesport, but after blowing up
against the Yorkshire Phoenix and the Durham Dynamos the last place they would
have wanted to go next must have been Taunton. I predicted that last week's
clash at Durham would be close, and was wrong. I don't think I will be wrong
when I suggest that tomorrow's clash will be a tense affair, however I cannot
see the visitors winning with such a long tail and a weakened attack. The
arrival of Harbhajan Singh cannot come a day too soon.
Emergency Ward Ten moves on to the West Country. Surrey's reserve keeper, Andrew
Hodd, 21, is set to make his first eleven debut as a batsman. With the ball,
Neil Saker, 20, will probably be making his maiden appearance in the one-day
league and Philip Sampson comes in for the first time this summer.
Nineteen-year-old seamer Jade Dernbach is placed on standby.
M Burns, S Jayasuriya, J Francis, K Parsons, J
Hildreth, I Blackwell, R Turner (capt, wk), A
Laraman, G Andrew, R
Johnson and S Francis.
|
DATE |
COMP |
RESULT |
VENUE |
TOSS |
DECISION |
SURREY |
SOMERSET |
|
28 May 2003 |
C&G |
Won By 6 Runs |
Taunton |
Somerset |
Field |
281-6 (50) |
275-9 (50) |
|
21 Aug 2001 |
NL |
Lost By 4 Wickets |
Taunton |
Surrey |
Bat |
236-8 (45) |
237-6 (41) |
|
10 Jun 2001 |
NL |
Lost By 8 Wickets |
The Oval |
Surrey |
Bat |
68-5 (10) |
69-2 (6.3) |
|
14 Aug 1999 |
NWT |
Lost By 120 Runs |
Taunton |
Surrey |
Field |
195 (43.3) |
315-8 (50) |
|
18 Jul 1999 |
NL |
Lost By 2 Wickets |
Guildford |
Surrey |
Bat |
225-9 (45) |
227-8 (43.2) |
|
23 May 1999 |
NL |
Lost By 6 Wickets |
Taunton |
Somerset |
Field |
184-9 (45) |
185-4 (38.3) |
|
25 May 1998 |
NL |
Lost By 7 Wickets |
Taunton |
Somerset |
Field |
127 (38.1) |
130-3 (29.5) |
|
8 May 1998 |
B&H |
Won By 9 Runs |
The Oval |
Surrey |
Bat |
296-6 (50) |
287 (48.5) |
|
27 Apr 1997 |
NL |
Won By 3 Wickets |
The Oval |
Surrey |
Field |
181-7 (39.5) |
180 (37.4) |
|
30-31 Jul 1996 |
NWT |
Won By 5 Wickets |
The Oval |
Surrey |
Field |
226-5 (52.5) |
225 (59.1) |
|
5 May 1996 |
NL |
Lost By 53 Runs |
Taunton |
Surrey |
Field |
232 (36.5) |
285-4 (40) |
|
11 Jun 1995 |
NL |
No Result |
The Oval |
No toss made |
- |
- |
- |
|
9 May 1995 |
B&H |
Won By 7 Wickets |
Taunton |
Somerset |
Bat |
203-3 (53.1) |
202 (54) |
|
19 Jun 1994 |
NL |
Lost By 18 Runs |
Bath |
Surrey |
Field |
221-9 (40) |
239-6 (40) |
|
26 Apr 1994 |
B&H |
Won By 35 Runs |
The Oval |
Surrey |
Bat |
288-3 (55) |
253 (53.2) |
|
29 Aug 1993 |
NL |
Won By 5 Wickets |
The Oval |
Somerset |
Bat |
241-5 (48.3) |
238-8 (49) |
|
27 Jul 1993 |
NWT |
Lost By 43 Runs |
Taunton |
Surrey |
Field |
187 (56.5) |
230-9 (60) |
|
21 Jun 1992 |
NL |
Won By 4 Wickets |
Bath |
Surrey |
Field |
218-6 (39.4) |
217-5 (40) |
|
4 May 1991 |
B&H |
Lost By 4 Wickets |
Taunton |
Somerset |
Field |
244-7 (55) |
246-6 (53.2) |
|
21 Apr 1991 |
NL |
Lost (Scoring Rate) |
The Oval |
Somerset |
Field |
189-6 (40) |
104-8 (21.4) |
|
5 Aug 1990 |
NL |
Won By 6 Wickets |
Weston-super-Mare |
Surrey |
Field |
203-4 (38.2) |
199-8 (40) |
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