Ollie Pope: "We weren't good enough in the final stages"
Surrey's stand-in T20 skipper pays tribute to Jason Roy's 76, and his opening stand of 101 with Laurie Evans in a 164-run chase, but bemoans a lack of support...
15.07.26, 23:50 Updated 15.07.26, 23:54 2 Minute Read
Mark Baldwin
Surrey's acting T20 captain Ollie Pope paid tribute to Jason Roy's efforts to get the team over the line following an agonising seven-run Vitality Blast quarter-final defeat to Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.
But Pope also said his team "were not good enough" in the closing stages of a match Surrey would have won had they managed to score 63 runs from the last eight overs with all ten wickets in hand.
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