Changing of the guard in the air as Surrey digest T20 campaign
18.07.26, 12:08 Updated 20.07.26, 21:28 4 Minute Read
Richard Spiller
There was a grim irony that Surrey’s quarter-final defeat in the Vitality Blast on Wednesday should come at Trent Bridge.
It was at Nottingham that they became the first T20 champions – the world’s inaugural domestic competition in a format which has become the tail wagging the global dog – in 2003, five qualifying matches leading to the first Finals Day in which Surrey beat Gloucestershire and then Warwickshire.
That was the penultimate honour of the Adam Hollioake era, his team adding the National League in the dying days of a season which saw a champion team breaking up in the final weeks of the campaign.
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