Now over to Surrey's bowlers after Dan Lawrence's double-ton brilliance

"For the first two hours it felt like there might be a ball with your name on it," said Lawrence, after stunning Hampshire on a well-grassed pitch seemingly made for bowling. "I just tried to put the pressure back on their bowlers a bit once I got in and got into a nice rhythm."

It was a knock that, at a stroke - or rather, in quite a few strokes and many of them memorable - has lifted Rory Burns' team after a week in which injury and Rahul Chahar's sudden visa clearance problems threatened to disrupt Surrey's stop-start red-ball campaign still further.