Fresh Fit File – Surrey vs Gloucs South Crew 2022

Surrey 129 (Jacks 51, Smith 3-13, van Meekeren 3-32) beat Gloucestershire 92 (Higgins 37, Curran 4-14) through 37 runs

Gloucestershire have been 14 for three after 4 overs in their chase, cut up similarly between Topley and Curran. They have been massively over-reliant on Glenn Phillips, the New Zealand middle-order batter, within the Blast remaining season and when he popped a go back catch to Curran after failing to select an offcutter, they by no means stood a lot probability on a chilly, damp night in south London.

Jacks, the 6th guy out for 51 because of a searing Naseem yorker, was once the one batter to mood his attacking taste towards Gloucestershire’s change-up bowlers within the center overs; Kieron Pollard, making his first Blast look since 2011, holed out for 14 off 15 balls whilst Curran’s personal 6 off 2 underlined the frenetic nature of the night time.

However he has regularly ramped up his workload to the level that England have been satisfied to select him of their squad for the Amsterdam travel, the place he may just theoretically bowl 30 overs in six days. He didn’t concede a boundary in his opening burst, hitting a difficult period and nipping the brand new white ball about; he was once rewarded with the wickets of Phillips and James Bracey, chipping to mid-off.

Topley, in the meantime, had his personal frustrations across the IPL. He was once approached through a franchise about the opportunity of a alternative deal in mid-March however consistent with ECB rules, he was once not able to soak up the be offering, with county-contracted avid gamers handiest accepted to signal IPL contracts earlier than the tip of February.

Topley was once unimpressed and pleaded double requirements – avid gamers with central contracts are allowed to signal at any degree – however has as an alternative needed to plug away within the Championship, taking 9 early-season wickets to assist Surrey to the highest of the desk. T20 nights are when Topley prospers: his first two overs price handiest two runs and integrated the dismissal of Miles Hammond, stumps rearranged whilst swinging to leg.

“We bowled truly neatly consistent with the pitch,” Jacks stated. “We used our abilities and bowled brilliantly up most sensible. Sammy and Toppers have been good. There was once just a little of zip and they are bowling with just right tempo and at the period that suited the wicket – any time you were given too complete, it was once more straightforward to hit.”

Surrey’s T20 facet this season has a Harlem Globetrotters, with sufficient high quality and intensity to go away out Gus Atkinson, Rory Burns, Jordan Clark and Dan Moriarty, even with Ollie Pope and Ben Foakes away on England responsibility. In Pollard and Narine, they’ve two undisputed greats of the structure, and must have few problems coping when Curran, Topley and Roy depart for the Netherlands excursion.

Narine was once characteristically frugal, conceding 17 runs and a unmarried boundary – a reverse-swept 4 through Tom Smith – in his four-over spell. He grew to become the ball sharply in each instructions, none extra so than an offbreak which reduce Benny Howell in part from a period and crashed into the highest of his leg stump.

Howell and Smith have been the protagonists of Gloucestershire’s fightback with the ball, Smith benefitting from Surrey’s all-guns-blazing manner to select up the primary 3 wickets, the ones of Roy, Curran and Laurie Evans. Howell, like Narine, was once the only bowler entrusted with a complete four-over spell through his captain; like Narine, he took one wicket and conceded a solitary boundary.

Gloucestershire’s personal England left-arm seamer, Payne, had a costlier night time than his Surrey opposite numbers, returning 2 for 30 from his 3 overs thank you to 2 reasonable tailend dismissals. Two times an unused member of an England white-ball squad, Payne is more likely to make a long-awaited debut subsequent month however with Topley and Curran forward of him, he will have to attend his flip.