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Gareth Batty Column: We turned a corner during one-wicket win against Yorkshire

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Surrey's head coach, in the latest of his exclusive columns for The Rey, writes about last Friday's thrilling victory at the Kia Oval and says his team "really started to move forward" when they reacted to being bowled out for 83 by immediately routing their opponents for 82 on an extraordinary second day...

07.09.26 6 Min Read Gareth Batty

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The Verdict: Will Josh Blake's heroics prove a poignant leaving present?

Patience and determination marked his match-winning innings against Yorkshire - characteristics the 27-year old has also shown since joining Surrey's playing staff in 2022 and awaiting his occasional first team chances, says Richard Spiller, who also looks ahead to Surrey's County Championship visit to Sussex this week...

06.09.26Opinion

Josh Blake's four and a half hour 43 not out sees Surrey home in low-scoring thriller

Selected in an unfamiliar specialist batsman role, he teams up with Matt Fisher in crucial 55-run stand as Yorkshire are edged out by one wicket in a riveting Kia Oval classic. See more pictures and listen to Mark Church's interview with Josh Blake...

04.09.26News

Matt Fisher's career-best six-wicket haul shocks Yorkshire

Listen to Mark Church's interview with Dan Worrall on Fisher's brilliance and a crazy day at the Kia Oval on which 23 wickets tumbled and ended with Surrey needing another 158 more runs for victory after finishing 'Tumultuous Thursday' on 27 without loss

03.09.26News

Surrey bowlers set up chance to push for crucial victory against Yorkshire

Dan Worrall, Matt Fisher and Tom Lawes shared nine Yorkshire first innings wickets as the Tykes were bowled out for 185 in a County Championship match that is pivotal to the end-of-season fortunes of both counties...

03.09.26News

Oval pavilion crowd with John Major

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Picture Gallery: Can you spot the 'face in the crowd' in our latest collection?

07.09.26Airhorn Media

Photographer Rupert Scotland offers his ninth picture 'collage' for this website, a personal choice of imagery that - when you add it to the eight galleries already published this year on The Rey - helps to provide a unique chronicling of a cricket season...

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The Verdict: Surrey hoping to take momentum shift into Yorkshire clash

Richard Spiller says Ben Foakes' match-saving 120 not out against Essex at Chelmsford could prove to be an even more important innings if Rory Burns' team can back it up at the Kia Oval this week with revenge against Yorkshire for a heavy defeat suffered in May...

31.08.26News

Ben Foakes keeps Surrey flame alive with rearguard hundred

Wicketkeeper hits brilliant five-hour unbeaten 120 to thwart his native county Essex in rain-hit draw, and then says Indian leg spinner Rahul Chahar has the tricks to help Surrey finish season on a high in September's four matches...

30.08.26News

Give me 100 to 150 to bowl at, says Rahul Chahar

The Indian leg spinner took 6 for 80 to restrict Essex's first innings lead at Chelmsford and tells Mark Church he believes he can go on to win the game on a turning pitch if Surrey can score enough second innings runs to set the home side a testing target...

28.08.26News

Galleries

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Picture Gallery: Take a look at our eighth collection of the season

More Surrey cricketing images for you to enjoy from the camera of Rupert Scotland, the man responsible for much of the outstanding photography on show right across The Rey website...

24.07.26Features

Picture Gallery: More Surrey images from this cricketing summer

Photographer Rupert Scotland has produced another collection of pictures for The Rey, with his exclusive series of galleries - published every couple of weeks or so - providing lasting memories of another busy domestic season...

01.07.26Features

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Picture Gallery: An off stump goes flying, and other images

Photographer Rupert Scotland presents his latest batch of pictures, published every fortnight or so, with each gallery building into an exclusive collection that chronicles a Surrey cricketing summer...

15.06.26Features

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Picture Gallery: Laurie Evans waiting to bat headlines our latest collection

More images from the camera of photographer Rupert Scotland, who is providing exclusive selections of Surrey cricket pictures every fortnight or so for subscribers of The Rey to enjoy...

28.05.26Features

Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com - 26/08/2026 - Cricket - Metro Bank One Day Cup Women - Yorkshire Women v Surrey Women - Ampleforth College, Ampleforth, England - A general view (GV) of Yorkshire and Surrey playing at Ampleforth College.

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Emma Calvert Column: Win at Ampleforth College was vital result

28.08.263 Min ReadEmma Calvert

In the latest of her regular columns for The Rey, the Surrey Women's director of cricket outlines the importance of the Metro Bank One Day Cup win against Yorkshire ahead of an exciting end to the season...

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Surrey hope to have Matt Fisher and Ollie Pope available again for Essex trip

Rory Burns' team urgently need a County Championship win at Chelmsford this week following the heavy defeat against Nottinghamshire which has left them just above the Division One relegation places...

26.08.26News

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The Verdict: Surrey facing test of resolve after crushing Notts defeat

Richard Spiller delivers his analysis of the 145-run loss to the 2025 champions which leaves Rory Burns' team looking down to the relegation places in Division One rather than up to another challenge for the County Championship...

24.08.26Opinion

Kira Chathli stars in fine team performance in T20 County CupKira Chathli stars in fine team performance in T20 County Cup

Chathli, Aylish Cranstone and Jemima Spence all score important runs, while Bethan Miles picks up three wickets as Surrey Women win their quarter-final against Warwickshire Bears to book a place in Finals Day at Old Trafford next weekend...

23.08.26News

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Rory Burns: "When you bat like we did you can't expect any more than we got"

What have Surrey got left? Kia Oval primed for pivotal weekend against Notts

Surrey wait on England Test plans ahead of Notts clash

Sophia Dunkley stars on Hundred finals day

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Much to ponder for Surrey before hottest summer’s end game

With the 2026 summer predicted to be the UK's hottest on record, Mark Baldwin sees a strange sort of cricketing madness manifesting itself in the uninterrupted sunshine of the past month...

12.08.26Opinion

Last group game is a One Day Cup final of an occasion

Rory Burns and his Surrey team know that by beating Notts Outlaws at the Kia Oval they can achieve something few thought possible at the start of the competition - qualification, against the odds, for the Metro Bank quarter-finals...

10.08.26News

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One Day Cup fate in the balance as Surrey await results elsewhere

Rory Burns's team are hoping they will have one last chance, by beating Notts Outlaws at the Kia Oval on Tuesday, to secure qualification for the Metro Bank One Day Cup knockout stages...

08.08.26News

Surrey Women

"We couldn't adapt to conditions quickly enough": Johann Myburgh on semi-final exit

Listen to Mark Church's verdict on Surrey Women's Vitality Blast Finals Day disappointment, as head coach Johann Myburgh laments a failure to post a defendable total in the defeat against The Blaze...

18.07.26News

Emma Calvert Column: Still areas to improve for us on Finals Day

The Surrey Women's director of cricket, writing exclusive columns for The Rey this summer, looks ahead to the Vitality Blast Finals Day at the Kia Oval and the chance for Bryony Smith and her team to defend their T20 title...

16.07.26Features

Surrey Women land psychological blow ahead of Finals Day by beating Hawks

Ryana MacDonald-Gay took three for 13 in a devastating new ball burst to spearhead a convincing victory against Hampshire in their last group game before next Friday's Finals Day at the Kia Oval and the chance to defend their T20 title...

12.07.26News

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Connected by a love for Surrey, but also by the sadness of having to say goodbye

Former Surrey all-rounder Cameron Steel pays a personal tribute to his former housemate James Taylor, who earlier this week announced that he will be leaving the club to join Yorkshire for the 2027 season...

11.07.26Features

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"I never thought you could have too much cricket but I was wrong"

Mark Church has made it to the end of June but now simply has to let off steam about what he calls "the madness" of a summer schedule that is giving him a headache just trying to keep up with it while also making sure he goes to the right match on the right day...

29.06.26Opinion

The Oval under lights

Under the lights: handling the glare and how it quickens cricket up

In his first piece for The Rey, Cameron Steel writes about the particular challenges posed to players by performing under the floodlights that have become such a feature of the modern-day limited-overs game...

29.05.26Features

Special Features

Stars on Sunday: when the John Player League ruled the roost

A fascinating and nostalgic book by author Mark Sands recalls the days when county cricket's biggest audiences flocked to the Sunday League, and when Surrey and Warwickshire once smashed 604 runs between them in a thrilling affair at The Oval...

20.07.26History

Cameron Steel with Dad and Grandad

Starting over again: a pint with my Dad at The Oval

Cameron Steel, facing up to his new life after retiring from professional cricket, took his father Jon to watch Surrey, drink a beer or two and also chat about his grandfather's memories of visiting The Oval in the 1950s...

16.06.26Features

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Live From The ReyHive (well, The Peter May Stand actually)

Mark Church uses a rare break from commentating on Surrey's County Championship match against Hampshire to join The Peter May Boys and chat to 'The Doc' and 'Sheffield Ian' about their take on the season so far...

10.06.26Features

A warm June evening in 2003, when cricket's 'Pandora's Box' was opened

On the eve of the start of this season's Vitality Blast, Mark Church casts his mind back to when a new county competition was launched 23 years ago, when Surrey's first Twenty20 Cup match at the Oval resulted in victory against Middlesex and when the beer ran out...

21.05.26History