Middlesex v Surrey - Friends Life T20 - South Group - Surrey clobber 149 runs - Live Score and Update
Surrey 149/4 (20/20 ov) - Surrey won the toss and chose to bat
With most parts of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 under the showers, fans at Lord's, London, nonetheless, witnessed a start of the Friends Life T20 match between Middlesex and Surrey under clear skies as Surrey won the toss and elected to bat first.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851 knew that they would need to post a daunting total on the board in the 20-over game in order to subdue their opponents and create a serious chance of winning the match.
However, with only 14 runs on the board, they lost their first wicket when opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robert-Hartman-Joseph-c85857 Hamilton-Brown had his stumps obliterated by SP Crook after scoring four runs.
In the next over, Middlesex struck again when Roland-Jones grabbed the wicket of opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SM-Davies-c2542, who faltered after scoring an innings of ten runs.
Losing both openers for only 14 runs was a big blow for Surrey, and needed to regroup as soon as possible to prevent the opposition from taking over the match.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jon-Lewis-c1726 Roy and Z de Bruyn then tried to beef some resistance against the bowlers, who were bolting in deliveries to earn a few more breakthroughs in order to contain the batting side on a meagre tally.
However, this alliance came to its end on the wicket of Z de Bruyn, who fell after scoring an innings of six runs off 12 deliveries.
Things were seemingly slipping out of Surrey’s control as they needed a staggering batting performance, or else it would have meant an end to their batting stint sooner than expected.
Before Surrey could form a new strategy to save face, they lost their fourth wicket with only 32 runs on the board as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Smith-c90598 after scoring eight runs.
Middlesex by this time had gained confidence and needed to maintain their momentum in order to give their batsmen a small target to chase.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GC-Wilson-c1474, who pulled off an out of the blue partnership to not only leave their opponents wide eyed, but also put their team in a dominating position as they bolstered astounding knocks of 53 and 54 to stay unbeaten and help post 149 runs on the board at the end of the innings.
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