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Dan Lawrence marches in and trips his second ball for four, and next over Sibley glances a wayward Baker for another.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a>WICKET! Jacks c Organ b Potgieter 10 (Surrey 53-2)<\/p>\n A second wicket of the morning for Potgieter, as Jacks launches into a full ball and is caught at point by Organ, with arms high over his head<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Sibley is looking solidly Sibleyish, trolling any bowler who strays onto his pads by sending the ball singing to the boundary. Now 19 not out.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Division One table<\/p>\n 1 Nottinghamshire P6 W2 L0 D4 91 points<\/p>\n 2 Warwickshire P6 W2 L1 D3 86 points<\/p>\n 3 Glamorgan P6 W2 L1 D3 83 points<\/p>\n 4 Essex P6 W3 L2 D1 80 points<\/p>\n 5 Sussex P6 W3 L1 D2 79 points<\/p>\n 6 Somerset P6 W2 L2 D2 79 points<\/p>\n 7 Surrey P6 W1 L1 D4 71 points<\/p>\n 8 Yorkshire P6 W2 L2 D2 71 points<\/p>\n 9 Leicestershire P6 W0 L4 D2 46 points<\/p>\n 10 Hampshire P6 W1 L4 D1 40 points<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Surrey injury roll-call<\/p>\n The reason for this unusual-looking Surrey side, apart from IPL returnees and England call-ups, is a roll-call of injuries: Sean Abbott (hamstring, picked up in a Blast game), Lawes (ankle, Blast ), Worrall (knee) and Ben Foakes (tors0), still out of action after bowling two overs at the fag end of that dull draw against Essex in April.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Lancashire charged with breaching pitch regulations<\/p>\n The match officials who stood in Lancashire\u2019s low-scoring Championship game against Middlesex in early May reported the pitch as \u201cbelow average.\u201d Lancs have therefore been charged with breaching pitch regulation and matters have been referred to the Cricket<\/a> Discipline Panel.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.12 EDT<\/p>\n Visa issues for Chahar<\/p>\n Surrey were hoping to play Indian legspinner Rahul Chahar, who signed for the last eight Championship games of the season, but he\u2019s been delayed by visa issues.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Will Jacks is batting at No. 3 for Surrey<\/a> in his first Championship outing this summer after a period with Mumbai Indians in the IPL. In England\u2019s winter Ashes stumble down the stairs, Jacks collected 363 runs and took six wickets in his four games.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.49 EDT<\/p>\n WICKET! Burns b Potgeiter 14 (Surrey 27-1)<\/p>\n Burns prods obediently forward and the ball skits through the gate and sends the off stump tumbling<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Good morning Gary Naylor.<\/p>\n \u201cAn idea. The Oval\u2019s marketing team hardly need advice from the likes of me, but they should think about getting an announcement out here at Lord\u2019s that tells the (very decent) crowd that their tickets will be accepted for free admission for Surrey vs Hampshire<\/a> just a few Tube stops away. There\u2019s only so many ducks to feed in Regent\u2019s Park after all.\u201d<\/p>\n I like it! Will pass it on if I can find anyone.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The wicket is very green, spearmint surrounded by peppermint on all sides, and behind the slips the pavilion is filling up nicely. Music from the church service on the next floor up reverberates through the press box.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 2nd over: Surrey<\/a> 3-0 (Burns 2, Sibley 1) Love Baker\u2019s enthusiasm, strides back after every ball like a boy in a desperate hurry but who has been shouted at not to run down the corridor. Gets a couple to spray up aggressively.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 1st over: Surrey<\/a> 3-0 (Burns 2, Sibley0) Four slips for Kyle Abbott under cloudy Oval skies. Just two from the first over, and Sonny Baker now marches to his mark, released by England to play in this game.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.06 EDT<\/p>\n The teams are walking out here at The Oval, and at Lord\u2019s where Tim de Lisle is at the tiller of the OBO.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Did a round of the ground and spotted groundsman Lee Fortis<\/a> talking to Alec Stewart out in the middle. Fortis, standing in his size 20 boots and on his tree-trunk legs, made Stewart look like a little boy doing up his tuck box as his neatly packed away the Surrey equipment, checking the straps for tightness and tucking in every corner.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Hampshire have won the toss and will bowl<\/p>\n Surrey: Burns, Sibley, Lawrnece, Pope, Jacks, Curran S, Curran T, Clark, Fisher, Taylor, Topley<\/p>\n Hampshire: Albert, Gubbins, Orr, Lehmann, Prest, Brown, Potgieter, Organ, Fuller, Abbott, Baker.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Preamble<\/p>\n Good morning and welcome to The Oval. Hampshire<\/a> have arrived for a rogue one-off match, out of step with the rest of the Championship, which restarts properly on Friday, and tickled into place because of fixture congestion.<\/p>\n The two teams play keepy-uppy at opposite ends of the ground, the groundstaff hammer a pitch and brush dust into a wheelbarrow and someone bats in the nets to a coach with a dog thrower.<\/p>\n There aren\u2019t many people here yet, lots on the train were obviously on their way to Lord\u2019s, where the weather, as here, looks better today. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve done a one-off game since the Bob Willis Trophy Finals <\/a>of 2020 and 2021, so I\u2019ll try and dig around for interesting stories on top of the cricket \u2013 do point some my way.<\/p>\n Play starts at 11am, there are plenty of chairs on the patio.<\/p>\n