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...
12.08.26, 00:39 Updated 12.08.26, 20:18 4 Minute Read
Mark Baldwin
We’ve just had four weeks of high summer, with continued soaring temperatures but also more than a smattering of cricketing low farce.
And what do I mean by that?
Well, from a Surrey perspective, here for a start are a few numbers from these past four sunshine weeks:
Ollie Pope – balls faced: 15; runs scored: 19; number of times retired out for not scoring fast enough: 1
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