SURREY BROWN CAPS V GLAMORGAN DRAGONS at the Brit Oval (Pro40 Division 2), 27 AUGUST 2007

With Kent and Yorkshire both suffering their first defeats in this season's Pro40 League today, a number of sides in Division Two, including Surrey, have been given renewed hope of finishing in one of the two automatic promotion spots. The Brown Caps will also be buoyed by the fact that tomorrow's opponents, Glamorgan, have just one win to show for their last six limited-overs visits to SE11.

Losing Michael Powell to a freak injury has not helped the Dragons' cause this summer, but their sheer hopelessness with the bat in one-day cricket still takes some beating. The only bright spot has been the emergence of Tom Maynard - the 18-year-old son of the former skipper, Matthew Maynard - who struck 71 on his one-day debut, against Gloucestershire in the FP Trophy in June.

Apart from Maynard, the only other front-line batsmen who are averaging over twenty at this stage are Jimmy Maher (24.66) and wicketkeeper Mark Wallace (23.28). Ben Wright, 19, has been thrown in at the deep end and shown promise on occasions, but more was expected of Robert Croft, Richard Grant and skipper David Hemp, who has made ducks in all three of his Pro40 innings.

It seems to have gone unnoticed that England's Simon Jones has played seven one-day games for the Welshmen this season, but that is probably because he has hardly set the world alight. Many are saying he's finished, but given he is still only 28 the chances of Jones being offered a new contract by another county, if not Glamorgan, are fairly high. With his injury problems, though, it would be risky to make his new deal anything but performance-related.

If the rest of the Dragons' bowling attack were paid on purely on performance only Alex Wharf would be living on more than bread and water. The 32 year-old has taken 19 wickets at 22.10 runs apiece in List A cricket, though he has also gone for 5.83 runs per over. Next best, judging simply by the wickets column, has been Robert Croft with just five victims to show from seven List A appearances. The only bowler who is conceding less than five an over is Dean Cosker. And we all thought that Surrey had problems in the bowling department!


Mark Ramprakash has 11,981 List A career runs.


No news as yet.

OPPONENT DATE COMP RESULT VENUE SURREY OPPONENT
Yorkshire 26 Aug 2007 NL Won By 5 Wickets Scarborough 147-5 (29.1) 145 (33.3)
Derbyshire 19 Aug 2007 NL Won By 24 Runs The Oval 102-2 (13) 227-7 (35)
Middlesex 5 Aug 2007 NL Lost By 6 Wickets Lord's 238-8 (40) 239-4 (38.2)
Durham 29 Jul 2007 NL Lost By 7 Wickets Guildford 248-6 (40) 249-3 (36)
Hampshire 13 Jun 2007 FPT Lost By 3 Wickets Rose Bowl 181 (49.5) 182-7 (48.2)


If there is one side you can virtually guarantee to lie down these days, then it must be the Dragons of 2007. With Surrey claiming a morale-boosting Pro40 win over the previously undefeated Yorkshire Phoenix at Scarborough today, I can only see one outcome at the Oval tomorrow. A win for the Brown Caps.


R Grant, J Maher, A Wharf, D Hemp (capt), B Wright, M Wallace (wk), R Watkins, R Croft, A Davies, D Cosker and M O'Shea.


Barry Dudleston and Peter Willey.

DATE COMP RESULT VENUE TOSS DECISION SURREY GLAMORGAN
28 May 2007 FPT Won By 3 Wickets Cresselly Surrey Field 206-7 (37) 203-8 (39)
29 May 2006 C&G Won By 68 Runs The Oval Surrey Bat 200 (45) 132 (31.3)
27 Jun 2004 NL Lost By 9 Wickets Cardiff Surrey Bat 197-8 (45) 94-1 (8.2)
25 Apr 2004 NL Lost By 7 Wickets The Oval Surrey Bat 146 (42.3) 147-3 (22.3)
14 Sep 2003 NL Won By 8 Runs Cardiff Surrey Bat 198-9 (45) 190 (43.4)
17 Aug 2003 NL Won By 58 Runs Whitgift School Surrey Bat 298-5 (45) 240 (39.4)
18 Jun 2002 C&G Won By 9 Runs The Oval Surrey Bat 438-5 (50) 429 (49.5)
16 Jul 2000 NL Won By 67 Runs The Oval Surrey Bat 268-5 (45) 201 (41.2)
27-28 May 2000 B&H Lost By 32 Runs Cardiff Glamorgan Bat 212 (43) 251 (49.1)
30 Apr 2000 NL Won By 10 Runs Cardiff Surrey Bat 185-9 (45) 175 (44.1)
25 Jul 1999 NL Lost By 71 Runs Pontypridd Glamorgan Bat 223 (39) 294-4 (45)
19 Jun 1999 NL Won By 143 Runs The Oval Surrey Bat 187 (45) 44 (17)
5 Jul 1998 NL Lost By 107 Runs Swansea Glamorgan Bat 77 (25.5) 184 (39.2)
7 Sep 1997 NL Won By 2 Wickets The Oval Surrey Field 243-8 (37) 242-8 (40)
15 Sep 1996 NL Won By 7 Wickets Cardiff Surrey Field 161-3 (32.5) 159-9 (40)
25 Jun 1995 NL Lost By 9 Wickets The Oval Glamorgan Field 152 (38.5) 154-1 (20.1)

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