da brdice： After their poor batting performance of the morning Surrey’s nerves were setjangling further by a good opening stand between Stubbings and Sutton – whowas standing in for Lacey
Ed Green17-Aug-2000After their poor batting performance of the morning Surrey’s nerves were setjangling further by a good opening stand between Stubbings and Sutton – whowas standing in for Lacey. Both players did well to keep out Bicknell whilescoring rapidly at the other end. Gary Butcher was introduced to the attackto try for five in five, he too was unable to break the partnership thoughand Derbyshire seemed on the verge of playing their way back into a gamethey had been comprehensively played out of on the first day….. UntilSalisbury joined the fray around a quarter past three to deliver thetwentieth over of the innings. At that time the score stood at 65 for 0 anda further three runs came from the first part of his over, one hour,thirteen and a half overs and twenty-nine runs later it was all over.Shahid and Hollioake’s close catching combined once again with anotherdemostration of wonderful spin bowling and some baffled and terrifiedbatting to wipe out a second innings, Saqlain – who’s figures stood at2-0-5-0 when his partner in crime joined him in the attack took adevastating seven for six in the next seven and a half overs while at theother end Salisbury, who’s turn it was to have less luck with the edgebagged 3-25.Dowman sought, for a brief time successfully, to survive and Munton, takingan intelligent view of his long term survival prospects, swung the batgamely for thirteen runs, entertaining in classic tailenders fashion beforeoffering a dolly caught and bowled to Saqlain but the rest of the team fadedaway so fast that it might have made some of their hosts feel undeservedlybetter about the morning’s batting effort.In the end eighteen wickets had fallen in less than two sessions of play ona blameless surface, it started to rain forty minutes after the close,drawing a veil over procedings. Surrey will be glad for innings win andtheir seventeen points and hope that the three batting points dropped do notcost them dearly while Derbyshire are now almost certainly destined fordivision 2.Saqlain was delighted with his short day’s work and season’s best figures.He has now overtaken Martin Bicknell once more in their private two horserace to be CC1’s leading wicket taker with 57 wickets to Bicknell’s 56,Bicknell will hope to retake the lead at Scarborough.