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Curran leads Surrey fightback as Gubbins falls short again
- Updated: May 15, 2016
Middlesex 298 for 7 (Gubbins 91, Malan 58, Robson 53) v SurreyScorecard
On a day of North London sporting collapses, Middlesex’s subsidence against Surrey couldn’t hold a candle to the tragicomic events up at St James’s Park, where Tottenham Hotspur squandered the chance to finish above Arsenal in the Premier League for the first time in 21 years.
Nevertheless, the capture of seven prime wickets in the space of 65 overs on a blameless surface meant that, by the close of the first day at the Kia Oval, Surrey’s threadbare attack had recovered manfully in their own game of domestic one-upmanship.
After winning the toss on another flat and straw-coloured deck – precisely the sort of surface that the ECB would have had in mind when they introduced their new spin-friendly directive – Middlesex made such hay in the morning session that their lunchtime scoreline of 126 for 0 seemed like a promise of the riches to come.
Instead, despite starts for each of their top four including a particularly classy 91 from Nick Gubbins, the day finished with a belatedly claimed new ball from Surrey, men around the bat, and quite a task in hand for Middlesex to secure their full allocation of batting points.
Surrey’s cast of bowling absentees could fill most attacks in the land – Zafar Ansari (thumb), Mark Footitt (side), Matthew …
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