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

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, 21:11 Updated 07.09.26, 21:13 6 Minute Read

Gareth Batty

Gareth Batty

I am writing this column in the immediate aftermath of what I think we can all agree was a nerve-shredding day at the Kia Oval as Josh Blake, Matt Fisher and the team won for us a famous and hugely important one-wicket victory against Yorkshire.

It was a very good win, especially after the way we had fought back with the ball the previous day when Fish bowled out of his skin, and what makes it all the more satisfying is that we haven’t covered ourselves in glory so far this year, not because of any lack of skills but because of the hunger side of it.

And we can all understand why that has happened. No one is ever going to take away from us our three championship titles in a row, plus the runners-up finish last year when we got so close, but there’s a reason why very few teams even win three titles in a row in the first place and so there has to be a drop-off when you’ve achieved things like that.

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