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- Updated: July 24, 2016
Surrey 313 for 8 (Davies 82, Roy 55, Burns 52) beat Essex 247 (Ryder 131, Dernbach 4-41) by 66 runsScorecard
Jesse Ryder slammed 131 off 110 balls, but could not prevent Essex falling to their first Royal London Cup defeat of the season.
Essex paid the price for losing half the side for 119, chasing Surrey’s 313 for 8, though while Ryder was at the crease anything looked possible, particularly when he was putting on 91 in 11 overs with Ashar Zaidi for the sixth wicket. Once both went in the space of three balls to Jade Dernbach, Essex resumed their earlier dismal form and finished 66 runs short.
Dernbach returned figures of 4 for 41 as Surrey, finalists last season, won for only the second time in this year’s 50-over competition. His colleagues had been thrashed around Chelmsford by Ryder, who struck four sixes and 13 fours in his innings, accelerating from fifty to his hundred in 33 balls.
The base for Surrey’s large total was laid by Steven Davies, who hit 82 from 81 balls and was ably supported by fifties from Jason Roy and Rory Burns, as well as 41 from Aaron Finch and 45 from Ben Foakes, after they had elected to bat.
Finch put on 94 for the first wicket with Roy before he was beaten by one that kept low from David Masters. Masters, Graham Napier and Zaidi kept the shackles on the openers until Matt Quinn returned for the 13th over and Roy hit him 6, 4, 6 from successive balls to put the Surrey innings into full …
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