{"id":111471,"date":"2025-09-03T12:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111471\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:28:06","slug":"surrey-vs-northamptonshire-steelbacks-quarter-final-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111471\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey vs Northamptonshire Steelbacks: Quarter-final preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tSam Curran\u2019s Surrey host Northamptonshire Steelbacks to kick off the Vitality Blast quarter-finals week.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey finished top of the South Group, winning eleven of our fourteen group matches.<\/p>\n<p>Play gets underway at 6:30pm with the match broadcast on Sky Sports Cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSURREY SQUAD<\/p>\n<p>Surrey name a 16-player squad for tomorrow\u2019s quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>Will Jacks, Jamie Smith and Jamie Overton are unavailable due to international commitments.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNORTHAMPTONSHIRE STEELBACKS<\/p>\n<p>Northamptonshire finished fourth in the North Group, with eight victories and six defeats. The Steelbacks got off to a flyer in the competition, winning their opening six games to storm up the table.<\/p>\n<p>Captain David Willey has been in imperious form with the bat, scoring 452 runs in the group stages. The skipper comes into the quarter-finals after a strong Hundred competition with the Trent Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Sanderson has led the way with the ball, taking 24 wickets so far \u2013 just three short of Somerset\u2019s Riley Meredith, who has taken the most with 27. He has been well supported by George Scrimshaw (23) and Willey (19).<\/p>\n<p>Captain:\u00a0David Willey<\/p>\n<p>Overseas players:\u00a0Matt Breetzke (South Africa, all group stage), Lloyd Pope (Australia, all group stage)<\/p>\n<p>Finals Day appearances:\u00a0Four (2009, 2013, 2015, 2016)<\/p>\n<p>Titles:\u00a0Two (2013, 2016)<\/p>\n<p>2024 finish:\u00a0Quarter-finals<\/p>\n<p>2025 leading runscorer:\u00a0David Willey (452)<\/p>\n<p>2025 leading wicket taker:\u00a0Ben Sanderson (25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Curran\u2019s Surrey host Northamptonshire Steelbacks to kick off the Vitality Blast quarter-finals week. Surrey finished top of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-111471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}