Surrey beat Sussex by ten runs: Friends Life T20 – Cricket news
In Friends Life T20’s South Division match between Surrey and Sussex the former won by ten runs on Friday, 28 June, at County Ground, Hove.
After winning the toss, Surrey chose to bat first in order to put enough runs on the board to give their opponents a run for their money. Surrey openers Jason Roy and Steven Davies gave their side a stand of 32 runs, before this partnership was broken by
Chris Jordan, who nabbed the wicket of Davies for 17.
The partnership between Davies and Vikram Solanki then led the batting side towards 74 runs, before this batting pair played its last on the wicket of Solanki who was clean-bowled after scoring 20 runs off 22 deliveries. Later with 87 runs on the board,
the batting side lost the services of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Glenn-Maxwell-c60189 also perished with only six runs to his name.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GC-Wilson-c1474 and Zafar Ansari then led a steady charge as they hammered the bowlers all around the park to take the score to 115, before the wicket of Ansari broke the partnership. The batsman found his way off the field after scoring 13 off 13.
Finally, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851 posted 157 runs on the board for the loss of six wickets in 20 overs, giving their opponents a meagre target to chase.
Sussex failed to make an impression as they lost their first wicket with 15 runs on the board. However, in the second-wicket partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rory-Hamilton-Brown-c2366, Sussex managed to reach 40 before this partnership also met its end on the
wicket of Wright, who departed after hitting 11 runs off 12 deliveries.
With 44 on the board, Sussex lost http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MH-Yardy-c1946 then steered their side towards 81 runs, before the former became the next batsman to lose his wicket after scoring 34 runs.
Yardy and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sussex-c852 played out their 20 overs for 147 runs as they lost the match.
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