Surrey 13 for 1 path Nottinghamshire 184 (Patterson-White 76*, Lawes 5-45)
Patterson-White, who got here in at No. 8, scored 76 not out as the highest two groups in final season’s Rothesay County Championship battled arduous once more for supremacy.
Kyle Verreynne and Brett Hutton each performed helpful arms with 22 and 19 respectively, as did No. 11 Dillon Pennington with 9, but it surely was Patterson-White’s counter-attacking innings that saved Notts on this contest. At stumps, Surrey have been 13 for 1 in reply.
Patterson-White confronted 112 balls, hitting 13 fours as 80 runs have been scored for the final two Notts wickets, after which Olly Stone had Dom Sibley caught behind for a second-ball duck as fortunes continued to swing.
Dan Worrall took 2 for 41 and Matt Fisher 2 for 43 however Patterson-White’s effort is doubtlessly already a useful one with solely 25 factors separating Division One leaders Notts and seventh-placed Surrey at the beginning of what’s positive to be an exhilarating six-match run-in.
A heavy rain bathe minimize brief the morning session after 86 minutes’ play, however in that point Surrey blew away the Notts high order to depart then staggering at 41 for five after Rory Burns had gained the toss and opted to bowl on a well-grassed floor.
Openers Haseeb Hameed and Ben Slater fell inside the primary three overs, with Ollie Pope taking two positive low catches at second slip as they edged Fisher and Worrall respectively on 5 and 4.
In his third over, Fisher beat Joe Clarke with a powerful supply that bounced and left him after which, two balls later, produced one other leg-cutter which Clarke (1) edged to Dom Sibley at first slip.
Fisher’s new ball burst of 5-3-7-2 had left Notts reeling at 14 for 3, with Worrall then resting with 1 for 8 from six overs, however the introduction of Lawes introduced two additional wickets in fast succession.
Jack Haynes did handle one extraordinary sq. minimize for six in Lawes’ first over however, within the younger seamer’s second over, Freddie McCann (10) sliced a drive straight to Fisher at backward level.
And Haynes, dropped on 9 by Lawes behind sq. off Jordan Clark, had reached solely 20 when he edged Lawes and Pope took off to his proper to carry one other positive catch at second slip.
Simply 4 balls have been doable following an early lunch earlier than extra rain meant one other half-hour delay however, within the afternoon, Notts fought arduous for survival in opposition to Surrey’s relentless four-pronged tempo assault.
Ben Martindale, on first-class debut, was crushed on a number of events by Worrall and, on 13, edged behind off Clark however Patterson-White then arrived to placed on 28 with Verreynne earlier than the latter slashed Lawes to backward level.
When Stone (3) flicked Worrall to mid wicket Notts have been 104 for 8 however Hutton held on so as to add an important 56 with Patterson-White both facet of tea till he skied an tried legside hit at Lawes to second slip. Pennington’s resistance ended when he aimed a legside swipe at Lawes and edged behind.
In the meantime Ryan Patel, who suffered a nasty finger harm making an attempt to take a catch within the eleventh over of Notts’ innings, has been substituted out of Surrey’s workforce and changed by Josh Blake.