Surrey 13 for 1 trail Nottinghamshire 184 (Patterson-White 76*, Lawes 5-45)
Liam Patterson-White led a spirited Nottinghamshire fightback to 184 all out after Surrey had reduced the champions to 41 for 5 at the Kia Oval.
Patterson-White, who came in at No. 8, scored 76 not out as the top two teams in last season’s Rothesay County Championship battled hard again for supremacy.
Kyle Verreynne and Brett Hutton both played useful hands with 22 and 19 respectively, as did No. 11 Dillon Pennington with 9, but it was Patterson-White’s counter-attacking innings that kept Notts in this contest. At stumps, Surrey were 13 for 1 in reply.
Notts were 70 for 6 when Patterson-White joined Verreynne but the left-hander hit some lovely shots, including one punched on drive for four off Tom Lawes, who was the pick of Surrey’s attack with 5 for 45.
Patterson-White faced 112 balls, hitting 13 fours as 80 runs were scored for the last two Notts wickets, and then Olly Stone had Dom Sibley caught behind for a second-ball duck as fortunes continued to swing.
Dan Worrall took 2 for 41 and Matt Fisher 2 for 43 but Patterson-White’s effort is potentially already an invaluable one with only 25 points separating Division One leaders Notts and seventh-placed Surrey at the start of what is sure to be a thrilling six-match run-in.
Meanwhile Ryan Patel, who suffered a nasty finger injury attempting to take a catch in the 11th over of Notts’ innings, has been substituted out of Surrey’s team and replaced by Josh Blake.
Despite the rain, it was a great day watching the cricket with @mark, started in the pavilion and then moved around the ground catching some of the sun and being in the right places for missing the rain too.
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