Window Cleaner

Match ended bad bad light with Hants 300/5. Still a good draw. Good batting from Gubbins, Albert and Prest. A win might have just been possible if we'd been able to up the rate a bit and no bad light but a draw is a good result for us, leaving Surrey still without a win.

Surrey whingeing for a ball change this morning. Seems to be the new modus operandi when you're getting nowhere otherwise. So far the umpires have turned them down.

What exactly is the point of sending in nightwatch rabbits who can't bat to face 10 overs or so against good bowlers?

Still think I might prefer no Wheal at all. Too inconsistant.

Not a good day for Hants, started quite well, then we got bogged down and some of the batting technique just isn't good enough against fast bowling. Probably now heading for a loss here.

Probably need Stoneman and Gubbins to bat through to the close here. Middleton beaten all ends up by Worrall. Still getting Surrey all out for 253 is pretty handy.

On this game's performance alone, can't really see much difference between Vince and Prest. Both make runs quite quickly at times and get out to silly shots as well. Who knows if Vince would have dug us out as Prest did yesterday.

Barker is injured apparently and the commentators said he might not be available for the first part of the season, read into that what you will. Fuller played in the friendly last week, don't know what his trouble is, if any. Perhaps they just wanted to have a look at Hampton.

Middleton is opening, so that's ok if he's not too mercurial. Gubbins needs to find some sort of form sooner rather than later. I've high hopes for Prest and Albert...well we'll have to see if there's not a better option. Good to get off to a winning start though.

Well there you go, we're making a right old dog's dinner of getting the 148 we need to win. Batting looks horribly fragile against decent bowling again. I hope we're not made to pay for those dropped catches.

Well yes, the team isn't very good. But those Barbie Pink shirts should be rounded up and burnt before the Civic Centre. No dignity ......

Bowling looks a bit lacklustre this morning. Can't really see, as of yet, that Hampton brings anything that we didn't have already. Still perhaps he'll get better before the 2 months are out.

That would be handy but I'm not counting on it overmuch. Batting doesn't look particularly simple on that track. We're ahead and 100 lead would be good I think.

121 all out, Dawson and Abbott 3 each. Right then, the proof of the pudding is in the batting. Stoneman and Middleton to open I presume.

Good start, Yorks, who chose to bat, now 112/9. Our bowling has been quite good but not 112/9 good. Malan ran himself out on a suicide run, Bairstow caught at third man from a wild swipe off Baker, and now Dawson is cleaning them up.