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Photographer Rupert Scotland offers his ninth picture 'collage' for this website, a personal choice of imagery that - when you add it to the eight galleries already published this year on The Rey - helps to provide a unique chronicling of a cricket season...

Patience and determination marked his match-winning innings against Yorkshire - characteristics the 27-year old has also shown since joining Surrey's playing staff in 2022 and awaiting his occasional first team chances, says Richard Spiller, who also looks ahead to Surrey's County Championship visit to Sussex this week...

Selected in an unfamiliar specialist batsman role, he teams up with Matt Fisher in crucial 55-run stand as Yorkshire are edged out by one wicket in a riveting Kia Oval classic. See more pictures and listen to Mark Church's interview with Josh Blake...