Warwickshire exploited perfect batting conditions to pile up 665-5, their record score against Surrey, on the second day of the County Championship Division One match at Edgbaston. Tom Latham struck 184 (319 balls), the highest score by a Warwickshire debutant, Ed Barnard harvested a career-best 177 not out (254) and Zen Malik helped himself to...
Tom Latham scored a debut century as Warwickshire reached 364-4 against Surrey on the opening day of their County Championship Division One match. New Zealand batter Latham struck an unbeaten 139 from 244 balls after Surrey chose to bowl on another belter of a batting pitch at Edgbaston. Rob Yates scored 86 against the champions’...
Surrey have signed former Australia international batter Kurtis Patterson for three County Championship matches in May. The 31-year-old scored 743 runs for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield over the winter, the fourth highest total, at an average of 57.15. He will join up with Surrey ahead of next week’s trip to Edgbaston to...
Stuart Maisner BBC News, South East Hallmark Care Homes Ethel Caterham celebrated her 115th birthday in Lightwater in Surrey in August A woman from Surrey has become the oldest person in the world, at the age of 115 and 253 days. Ethel Caterham, who lives at a care home in Lightwater, reached the milestone following...
In the battle between the two Midlands teams, Nottingham-based The Blaze were reeling as they slipped to 5-2 in the first over after being put in. But Scotland international Sarah Bryce battled to 52 with useful contributions from Orla Prendergast (34) and Ella Claridge (38) in the middle order. A valuable unbroken last wicket stand...
Champions Surrey recorded their first win of the season in emphatic style, beating Somerset by eight wickets at the Kia Oval. Dan Worrall and Jordan Clark shared six wickets as Somerset were bowled out for 119, having conceded a first-innings deficit of 84. Surrey knocked off their target of 36 in 5.2 overs and moved...
Rory Burns was one of three Surrey half-centurions as the defending champions took a first-innings lead against visitors Somerset on day two at the Kia Oval. The Brown Caps skipper struck 10 boundaries in a fluent 76, sharing a first-wicket stand of 129 with fellow former England opener Dominic Sibley (53), who passed 50 for...
Surrey finally broke through in the third over after lunch. Atkinson produced a fine delivery which nipped away at decent pace and Vaughan (36) was held at second slip. Worrall got a deserved success with a ball which shaped away that Tom Abell edged low to second slip for a duck, but Lammonby and Tom...
Surrey are still looking for the first win of the season in the County Championship after their game with Sussex at Hove ended in a draw. Their hopes of putting pressure on their hosts on the final day evaporated when they lost their last seven wickets for 100 runs in the morning session. They still...
Dan Lawrence and Ollie Pope both made attacking hundreds before bad light halted Surrey’s rapid progress on day three against Sussex at Hove. When the players came off ten minutes after tea Surrey were 390-3, only 45 runs behind with Lawrence unbeaten on 117 after Pope had made his first Championship century for two years....
Sussex opener Tom Haines struck 174 as the batters continued to dominate in their County Championship Division One game against Surrey. Haines batted for seven and a half hours to anchor the Sussex first innings of 435 all out. This followed his 141 in his side’s resounding victory over Somerset last week. When he was...
Tom Haines’ unbeaten 89 and a half-century from opening partner Dan Hughes put Sussex in control on a rain-shortened first day against Surrey at the 1st Central County Ground. Rain arrived just after 15:00 BST and although they returned at 17:40, only 11 more balls were possible. Sussex closed on 227-2 from 53 overs, Haines...
Nick Gubbins and Toby Albert were Hampshire’s heroes as they denied Surrey’s last-day attempt to force a first victory of the new County Championship season at the Kia Oval. Gubbins scored a five-hour 117 and Albert an equally defiant 78 not out as Hampshire, starting the day on 35-3 in their second innings in pursuit...
Top Gear’s anonymous racing driver The Stig has broken a 20-year-old record for the fastest lap around the BBC motoring show’s test track in Surrey. The Stig completed the 1.75-mile (2.8km) figure of eight circuit at Dunsfold Aerodrome in 55.9 seconds in a McMurtry Speirling Pure VP1 electric track car, beating the previous record by...
Surrey opener Dom Sibley carried his bat for the sixth time in his career and made an unbeaten century to rescue the champions against Hampshire on day one of their County Championship match at The Oval. The 29-year-old was unbeaten on 100 when Surrey were bowled out for 253 after being put in. Hampshire lost...