Barker back bowling in the second innings, which is good news.

I would bring Malik in on Friday - he's got a bit of a swagger about him and if he's in the runs you would assume he's confident.

Agreed he had enough chances here and each time it was sold as we would have him for longer than we did. Sod's law would suggest he'll play a full campaign for them but in reality I expect he won't.

I can only echo what's been said already. This will be a really poor defeat, and worrying for the rest of the campaign.

The same old problems of not being able to bowl teams out after removing the top order. We won't win many games until that's sorted.

You would've hoped with the return of Welch those problems would be fixed somewhat - maybe he just needs a bit longer.

Very strange passage of play from Booth. Surely the right approach was to try and move the game forward rather than block it out when there was a new ball coming anyway. The worst case scenario would've been to be all out at the end of the day with Sussex starting a fresh tomorrow.

Added to that kept Thompson off strike for so long that his timing was gone by the time he was back on strike.

We were the only team in Div 1 to elect to bat

Very pleasing day and let's hope that now Dan has finally got his first championship hundred he can really kick on this season.

On comms they mentioned that we thought it would be best for batting on day 2 (i'm not sure why) but let's hope that's the case as it will need to be much trickier than today if we're to get another 10 Surrey wickets.

Debating whether to brave the weather tomorrow...

Nice to hear Dermot Reeve back on commentary this year

Surrey do bat deeper than most but this is the same issue we had last season, get through the top/upper middle order quite cheaply and then fail to wrap up the rest of the wickets.

Yep, the media do seem to think we've got a shot at the title.

But I don't think we have enough runs in the team. Hain and Barnard have done too much of the heavy lifting for a while so the rest of the top order need to fire and it doesn't get much tougher than Surrey in April in overcast conditions.

Will we try and prepare a flat one a la last season to go for a draw or more confidence this time round to get a win?

He's signed to "build bridges with the community"

Yes huge congratulations. In my mind it still makes sense for him to play the odd CC game but I think it'll be IPL straight into the home test series in summer.

Seems like Pope has run his race, meaning the number 3 spot is wide open for Bethell in the test team

PCA not ruling out strike action after county vote

Professional Cricketers' Association chief executive Daryl Mitchell has not ruled out the possibility of players taking strike action after proposals to reform the County Championship were rejected.

Full story here: https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/c4g961134g2o

Nope - already done for the day. Were never likely to get on tbh

I think it'll be a declaration once a draw is secured rather than the dangling the carrot type.

A draw keeps them in first even if Notts win.

BosworthBear wrote:

The commentators (Collins yuk) now assuming Surrey have won!!!

And after all that waffle from him, Warwickshire have a first innings lead!

To further the above I tried to pause the live stream at the point the ball got to Foakes and it definitely looks like it hit the floor.

Is is just me or did that look like it hit the floor before Foakes' glove?

Highveld wrote:

The Hain dismissal looked very high, it hit him at the top of his thigh, ans Sam is not a short person.

It did hit him high but pitched quite short and didn't get up as much as it should've, so I do think that one was out

Andy wrote:

Oh come on umpire that has to be missing leg

It was missing leg. From the umpire who was very reluctant to give them when Surrey were batting