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Richard Spiller

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Injury-depleted Surrey limp into season's last rites against Somerset at Taunton
Richard Spiller sets the scene for the County Championship's final round, with Warwickshire the overwhelming favourites to claim the title every first-class cricketer covets above all others and Surrey taking on Somerset at Taunton in a fixture that has rarely been dull in recent years...
23.09.26News
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The Verdict: first day batting costs Surrey against Glamorgan
Richard Spiller gives his verdict on Surrey's defeat to Glamorgan in the Rothesay County Championship match at the Kia Oval. Twenty wickets fell on the first day and it was Surrey's first innings batting that ultimately cost them the game...
20.09.26Opinion
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Dan Lawrence return from Test duty to boost Surrey for Glamorgan's visit
Richard Spiller looks back on last week's rain-affected draw at Sussex and ahead to this week's visit of Glamorgan to the Kia Oval, where Rory Burns's team will be looking to finish the County Championship season on a high with two matches still to be played...
14.09.26News
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Josh Blake, the Surrey cricketer who refused to give up on his dream
Richard Spiller pays tribute to a player who fought long and hard to earn a professional contract and prove himself in county cricket, and who now leaves Surrey with the club's blessing to seek more regular first team opportunities at - it is believed - Leicestershire...
11.09.26News
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The Verdict: Will Josh Blake's heroics prove a poignant leaving present?
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...
06.09.26Opinion
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The Verdict: Surrey hoping to take momentum shift into Yorkshire clash
Richard Spiller says Ben Foakes' match-saving 120 not out against Essex at Chelmsford could prove to be an even more important innings if Rory Burns' team can back it up at the Kia Oval this week with revenge against Yorkshire for a heavy defeat suffered in May...
31.08.26News
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Surrey hope to have Matt Fisher and Ollie Pope available again for Essex trip
Rory Burns' team urgently need a County Championship win at Chelmsford this week following the heavy defeat against Nottinghamshire which has left them just above the Division One relegation places...
26.08.26News
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The Verdict: Surrey facing test of resolve after crushing Notts defeat
Richard Spiller delivers his analysis of the 145-run loss to the 2025 champions which leaves Rory Burns' team looking down to the relegation places in Division One rather than up to another challenge for the County Championship...
24.08.26Opinion
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Surrey wait on England Test plans ahead of Notts clash
The availability of both Matt Fisher and Ollie Pope for the visit to the Kia Oval of their keenest rivals could be crucial to Surrey's chances of reigniting a County Championship challenge against a team who have had their measure in the past 12 months...
19.08.26News
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Last group game is a One Day Cup final of an occasion
Rory Burns and his Surrey team know that by beating Notts Outlaws at the Kia Oval they can achieve something few thought possible at the start of the competition - qualification, against the odds, for the Metro Bank quarter-finals...
10.08.26News
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One Day Cup campaign so far is a real credit to Rory Burns and his team
With three Group A matches to go, two of them on home Kia Oval turf, a largely inexperienced Surrey squad has performed brilliantly to have a chance of achieving qualification for the 50-overr competition's knockout stages...
03.08.26Opinion
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Adam Thomas adds to growing reputation as Surrey enjoy Guildford bounce-back
The 20-year old's 83 not out spearheads a highly creditable One Day Cup win against Northants, following loss to Leicestershire two days earlier, while Ryan Patel, Yousef Majid, James Taylor and Benji Floros also impress...
27.07.26News
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Surrey keen to break Guildford drought on return to Woodbridge Road
Ryan Patel lit up the ground in 2021, Surrey's last victory there, and Rory Burns's Metro Bank One Day Cup team will want to put a fallow five years since behind them as they take on both Leicestershire and newly-crowned Vitality Blast champions Northants inside three days at Guildford...
23.07.26News
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Changing of the guard in the air as Surrey digest T20 campaign
Richard Spiller writes reflectively on a Vitality Blast effort that came up short while also previewing the Metro Bank One Day Cup, in which Surrey will look to emerging stars like Adam Thomas due to no fewer than 17 players being involved in The Hundred...
18.07.26Opinion
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Quarter-final against Nottinghamshire needs to sharpen up Surrey
Richard Spiller looks ahead to Wednesday's Vitality Blast quarter-final at Trent Bridge, and a requirement to up their game, after Surrey's qualification from the South Group finished with a disappointing heavy defeat at home to Essex...
13.07.26News
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Retro Night fireworks at the Kia Oval as Jason Roy hammers out some greatest hits
Richard Spiller updates Surrey's progress in the Vitality Blast's South Group, with Roy's magnificent unbeaten 103 seeing off Sussex Sharks after Surrey Women had also boosted their own Finals Day hopes by beating Warwickshire in an Oval double-header...
09.07.26News
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Reece Topley leading the charge with the ball as Surrey target T20 quarter-finals
Wins against both Sussex and Essex, following the resumption of the Vitality Blast last week, has given Surrey all-important momentum with only another four South Group matches to go before the knockout stages...
02.07.26News
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Resumption of Blast gives Surrey further chance to ignite their season
Ollie Pope is in line to take over as captain, with Sam Curran away on England international duty, as Surrey - including new overseas signing Josh Philippe - go into the second half of the Vitality Blast's group stage looking to secure qualification for the quarter-finals next month…
25.06.26News
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The Verdict: Rory Burns back to his best but his team are still far from it
Richard Spiller says Surrey's second County Championship win of the season cannot come soon enough, when red-ball cricket resumes in August, if they want to be able to challenge for the title in a six-match run-in...
23.06.26Opinion
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Gus Atkinson and Rahul Chahar to boost Surrey attack against Glamorgan
Surrey have been given a fillip by the unexpected availability of fast bowler Gus Atkinson and the arrival of Indian leg spinner Rahul Chahar for their County Championship trip to Glamorgan, a match which could prove pivotal in Rory Burns' team's red-ball campaign...
17.06.26News
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Surrey and the New Zealand connection
As England play the Black Caps in the second Test at the Kia Oval, Richard Spiller looks through cricket's history books for Kiwi connections with both the Surrey club and the Oval ground...
17.06.26History
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The Verdict: Surrey left to reflect on what might have been, despite Dan Lawrence heroics
Richard Spiller assesses the individual triumphs and overall frustrations of a County Championship draw against Hampshire at the Kia Oval after a match in which virtually a full day's play was lost to rain and bad light...
11.06.26Opinion
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Surrey's line-up to take on a new look for return to County Championship action
Indian leg spinner Rahul Chahar to make much-anticipated season's debut, Ollie Pope to take the wicketkeeping gloves and there could also be places against Hampshire for Sam Curran and Will Jacks...
04.06.26News
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Bounce back required from Sam Curran and his team in Vitality Blast
As Richard Spiller outlines in his latest review of Surrey's progress this season, two home Blast games in three days this week come at a vital stage of the T20 competition for Sam Curran and his players...
02.06.26News

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