Durham v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851 - County Championship Division One - Day 2 - Live Score and Update
Surrey 129 & 69/5 (36.0 ov) v Durham 310 - Surrey trail by 112 runs with 5 wickets remaining
At stumps, on the second day of the four-day game between Surrey and Durham, Surrey trail by 112 runs with five wickets in hand, after bolstering 69 runs in their second innings on Wednesday, August 08, at Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street.
The day began with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/PD-Collingwood-c2173 on an overnight tally of 17.
The morning brought good fortune for Durham, as the batting pair outclassed the bowling side from get go, and steered their team to a pile of 190 runs before Surrey striker, JW Dernbach, made inroads by grabbing the wicket of Benkenstein on a score of 69.
Skipper, Collingwood, was then joined by Mustard as the two batsmen launched another intimidating partnership to leave the fielding side in ruins.
For Surrey, it was imperative to break the partnership sooner than later in order to restrict Durham from piling a huge total in response to their first innings tally of 129.
However, the bowlers completely failed to trouble the batsmen, getting smacked all around the park.
The Durham duo took the score to 229, before Collingwood was dismissed by Dernbach after jabbing a handsome knock of 78 runs.
With SG Borthwick perishing after scoring only a run, it was time for CD Thorp to join the party, as he forged a daunting stand alongside Mustard, taking the score to 303 runs.
With Mustard gone for 46 and Thorp losing his wicket after scoring 32 runs, Durham managed to post a massive total of 310 runs in their second innings.
Surrey then had an unimpressive start to their second round of batting, where the batsmen made too many mistakes to lose their wickets cheaply, as the side lost five batsmen before the end of the day’s play with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Burns-c48842 being best batsmen for hammering an unbeaten knock of 28 runs off 104 deliveries.
From Durham, BA Stokes was the top bowler with two wickets to his name.
Tags: