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The Verdict: Surrey end season depleted in numbers and grateful for Taunton draw
Richard Spiller delivers his final verdict on Rory Burns and his Surrey team at the end of a County Championship season that has proved a long, hard slog and which finished with more disappointment and disruption against Somerset...
28.09.26Opinion
"We have not gone about our business as we set out to do this season" says Gareth Batty
Surrey's head coach reflects on a tough final match at Taunton as Rory Burns' team finish in seventh place in the County Championship after emerging from a rain-interrupted fourth day with a draw against Somerset in their last fixture of the campaign...
27.09.26News
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Dan Lawrence "playing a different game to the rest of us" says Dom Sibley
Surrey established early dominance over Somerset at Taunton in their final County Championship fixture, thanks to Lawrence's sixth hundred of the season and excellent innings too from Sibley and Ben Foakes...
24.09.26News
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Injury-depleted Surrey limp into season's last rites against Somerset at Taunton
Richard Spiller sets the scene for the County Championship's final round, with Warwickshire the overwhelming favourites to claim the title every first-class cricketer covets above all others and Surrey taking on Somerset at Taunton in a fixture that has rarely been dull in recent years...
23.09.26News
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Rory Burns and Surrey up against it after Asa Tribe hundred
Glamorgan opener Tribe, the 22-year-old England Lions batsman, provided the anchor innings as just five wickets fell on day two and the Welsh county built a lead in excess of 350. It was a remarkable turnaround in a County Championship match that initially saw 20 wickets tumbling on the first day...
16.09.26News
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Dan Lawrence return from Test duty to boost Surrey for Glamorgan's visit
Richard Spiller looks back on last week's rain-affected draw at Sussex and ahead to this week's visit of Glamorgan to the Kia Oval, where Rory Burns's team will be looking to finish the County Championship season on a high with two matches still to be played...
14.09.26News
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Rory Burns: "When you bat like we did you can't expect any more than we got"
Surrey's captain, speaking to The Rey's Mark Church after a 145-run County Championship defeat to Nottinghamshire, says their first innings slide from 84 to two to 162 all out was unacceptable and the main reason for a damaging loss...
22.08.26News
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What have Surrey got left? Kia Oval primed for pivotal weekend against Notts
Fast bowler Matt Fisher says Surrey "can chase anything" in the fourth innings on an easing Oval pitch, but first Rory Burns' team must bowl out the champions for a second time on day three...
21.08.26News
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Surrey wait on England Test plans ahead of Notts clash
The availability of both Matt Fisher and Ollie Pope for the visit to the Kia Oval of their keenest rivals could be crucial to Surrey's chances of reigniting a County Championship challenge against a team who have had their measure in the past 12 months...
19.08.26News
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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
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The Verdict: Rory Burns back to his best but his team are still far from it
Richard Spiller says Surrey's second County Championship win of the season cannot come soon enough, when red-ball cricket resumes in August, if they want to be able to challenge for the title in a six-match run-in...
23.06.26Opinion
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Surrey red-ball frustrations continue despite Rory Burns hundred
Defeat in Cardiff against Glamorgan is a chastening result for Burns's team, who have now won just one of eight County Championship matches this season. Mark Church gives his own summary of events at Sophia Gardens, and also gets the thoughts of Surrey head coach Gareth Batty...
22.06.26Opinion
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Glamorgan's recovery to 358 in Cardiff continues worrying trend for Surrey
And Mason Crane's maiden first-class hundred is then followed by a spectacular Surrey collapse to 105 all out, condemning them to follow on and - by the end of day two - to be still 171 runs adrift with eight second innings wickets in hand...
20.06.26News
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Gus Atkinson and Rahul Chahar to boost Surrey attack against Glamorgan
Surrey have been given a fillip by the unexpected availability of fast bowler Gus Atkinson and the arrival of Indian leg spinner Rahul Chahar for their County Championship trip to Glamorgan, a match which could prove pivotal in Rory Burns' team's red-ball campaign...
17.06.26News
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The Verdict: Surrey left to reflect on what might have been, despite Dan Lawrence heroics
Richard Spiller assesses the individual triumphs and overall frustrations of a County Championship draw against Hampshire at the Kia Oval after a match in which virtually a full day's play was lost to rain and bad light...
11.06.26Opinion

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