Surrey’s hopes still alive

Press, 28 August 1980, Page 23

Surrey’s hopes still alive

, While Richard Hadlee was helping Nottinghamshire to in- • flict a; humiliating defeat on the touring Australian .cricket team, his compatriots John Wnght and ■ Glenn Turner were . enjoying more success in their county matches. Turner had a halfcentury for Worcestershire and Wright made 89 and 66 for D There l was some very heavy scoring, with Surrey keeping - alive its faint hopes of winning the championship hy taking 19 • 'points' from Kent -while the - leader Middlesex was restricted . to eight points in the match a with Sussex. Gloucestershire 309 (Sadiq 43, ,M. Procter 57, M. Cartridge 48, ,: D Graveney 5o) and 317 (A. : Stovold 80, Sadiq. 92. Procter 84° V. Marks 5/77) drew with Somerset 426 (V. Richards 1/0, •' p Roebuck 101; J; Childs 4/70) Ind 200/7 (J. Lloyd 64; Graveney 4/53) Somerset ’l4, Gloucester,h Es e sex' 291 (M. McEvoy 48, K. Fletcher 84, B. Hardie dec 44 n. 0.) ana -yu/4 aec (Fletcher 122_n.b;. P. a l^ i S n I? 7 n -°j ) drew with Derbyshire 306// (J. Wright 89, D. Steele 54; J. Lever 4/75) and’ 236/7 (Wright 66, P. Kirsten ; 58: : PhilUp..3/9) DerbySh Yorks’hirI 5e 346/7 265/s(^’Love^lo5 y n.o 1 . ) , fin?o., B. Reidy 75. A. Kennedy o 5)

and 305/7 (D. Lloyd 61, C. Lloyd 101, Reidy 60) Lancashire 19, Yorkshire 6. _ Kent 107 (D. Thomas 3/20) and 272 (M. Benson 53, A. Ealham 53; R. Jackman 5/98, D. Thomas 4/44) lost to Surrey 267 (11. Lyncn 92, Intikham 57 n. 0.; N. Kemp 6/119) and 115/1 (A. Butcher 53, G. Clinton 50 n. 0.) Surrey 19, Kent 4. , „ , Middlesex 360/4 (J. Brearley 114 P. Downton 67, R. Butcher 71, M. Gatting 49 n. 0.) drew with Sussex 172 (V. van der Bijl 6/47) and 550/9 dec (K. Wessells 254, C. Wells 97. J. Barclay 44, G. Le Roux 50) Middlesex 8, Sussex 2. _ Northamptonshire 336/2 (IV. Larkins 156. R. Williams 175 n. 0.) and 340/7 dec (A. Lamb 152. P. Willey 73, Larkins 68) lost to Leicestershire 296/7 (J. Steele 117, T. Boon 53) and 382/7 (D. Gower 83. J. Steele'7o. Boon 42, R. Davison 42, R. Tolchard 6<). Leicestershire 15, Northamptonshire 7. , Worcestershire 219 <J. Ormrod 126. P. Neale 56; M. Marshall 4/53) and 155 (G. Turner =3, Neale 40; Marshall 5/39) lost to Hampshire 236 (T. Tremlett <6; H. Alleyne 5/72. A. Pridgeon 4/29) and 142/6 (Tremlett 67 n. 0.). Hampshire 18, Worcestershire 6. Warwickshire 235 (D. Amiss 76; E. Moseley 4/38) and 402/9 dec (J. Whitehouse 197, P. Oliver 69) drew with Glamorgan 524/9 (Miandad 181, J. Hopkins 112. N. Featherstone 84, A.. Jones 49: R. Willis 4/87). Glamorgan 8, 1 Warwickshire 3.