Fresh Fit Record – Surrey vs Sussex South Staff 2023

Sussex 149 for five (Alsop 51*, Burgess 48) beat Surrey 148 (Narine 29, Bopara 3-18) by means of 5 wickets

After bowling out the hosts for 148 on a used pitch, Sussex appeared out of it once they struggled to 57 for 4 after Sunil Narine, who took two for 18 from his 4 overs, produced a wicket maiden within the eleventh over.

However then Burgess joined Alsop in a match-winning partnership of 77 in 8 overs that surprised Surrey, who had gained their first two Blast fixtures of the season, and propelled the Sharks to the threshold of a gap South Staff win.

Burgess, having simply deposited Dan Worrall for an enormous six into nearly the second one tier of the JM Finn Stand, was once brilliantly stuck at quick 3rd guy from the ultimate ball of the 18th over – slashing a low complete toss to Nathan Barnwell, the synthetic fielder, who held on gallantly.

That left Sussex desiring 16 from the ultimate two overs, after which ten from the ultimate after Sam Curran bowled a good penultimate over, and Alsop was once equivalent to the duty of taking ten off Tom Lawes.

Left-hander Alsop hit the second one ball thru additional quilt for 3 and, with James Coles taking a unmarried from the following, levelled the rankings by means of hammering Lawes’ fourth ball again previous the bowler for a lofted boundary.

Alsop then pulled Lawes over a hoop subject for the victory-clinching unmarried and his 42-ball anchor knock incorporated legside sixes off Cameron Metal and Worrall and 4 fours but even so.

Nevertheless it were Burgess, on-loan from Warwickshire and firstly a made of Surrey’s adolescence machine ahead of becoming a member of Sussex for 3 seasons from 2017, who performed the innings of the sport. He took the lion’s proportion of the nineteen runs that got here from the fifteenth over, off Worrall, together with a exceptional sq. lower six that landed at the boundary rope.

That left Sussex desiring 52 from the general 5 overs and Burgess, in all, hit two sixes and 5 fours because the Sharks shook off harm setbacks that incorporated opener Ali Orr having to bat with a runner – however nonetheless hitting 24 from 15 balls – after hurting his knee seeking to take a boundary catch early within the event.

Narine previous hit 3 sixes in a quickfire 29 however he then was the primary of Ravi Bopara’s 3 sufferers in a canny spell of 3 for 18 from the twelfth, 14th and sixteenth overs, and Surrey’s innings fairly fizzled out as their ultimate 4 wickets tumbled for simply two runs in 9 balls.

Surrey in the beginning took the assault to a Sussex bowling unit shorn of each their in another country gamers, Pakistan’s Shadab Khan and Australia’s Nathan McAndrew, who had been rested as a precaution following their unlucky on-field collision within the Sharks’ opening recreation defeat opposed to Somerset at Hove.

Laurie Evans took two legside fours off George Garton in the second one over after which lifted Coles’ left-arm spin for a six into the again tier of the Bedser Stand in a 3rd over that introduced 16 runs as Will Jacks additionally plundered two fours.

However Tymal Generators, presented for the 5th over, made the step forward when Evans, making room to carve, misplaced his off stump on 23 and Jacks fell for 13 – splicing Henry Crocombe’s fast-medium to mid wicket – as Surrey ended the six-over powerplay on 42 for 2.

A slightly sensible low diving catch at backward level by means of Coles lower Sam Curran’s innings quick on simply two, the fielder scooping the ball up right-handed because the England all-rounder slashed Archie Lenham’s leg spin onerous for what he will have to have concept can be a boundary.

Narine’s mid-innings aggression helped to take Surrey to 82 for 3 by means of the midway level as he and Tom Curran added 53 for the fourth wicket however then Bopara started to provide his personal explicit emblem of medium-paced magic as Narine lofted to lengthy on and Curran (23) skied to additional quilt, the place Alsop took a high quality operating catch over his shoulder.

Jamie Smith did bludgeon Lenham for 2 directly fours however on 19 was once bowled by means of Bopara as he attempted to brush a directly ball after transferring outdoor his off stump.

Generators returned to assist his captain flip the screw on Surrey’s decrease order and Jamie Overton was once bowled for 13 by means of a thunderbolt that hit his off stump and each Metal and Lawes had been run out seeking to come again for a 2d run – Lawes being pushed aside with out dealing with a ball.

The innings ended with 3 balls unused, Jordan Clark swinging and lacking at Garton to head for simply 8 and leaving Surrey wanting a par overall and in charge of shedding their method opposed to some superb Sussex out-cricket.

Tom Clark was once Sussex’s first wicket to fall, stuck at additional quilt off Worrall for 9 and after Orr was once taken at backward level off Lawes the Sharks answer stuttered additional when Bopara edged Narine’s 3rd ball at the back of and the West Indian thriller spinner additionally had Garton stuck by means of keeper Smith for 7.

Alsop and Burgess, although, held their nerve in entrance of a giant crowd and, with Narine bowled out on the finish of the 14th over, an equation of 71 from six was once completed. Their stand, in the meantime, was once a 5th wicket T20 file for Sussex opposed to Surrey.