Arrived at Lords with Surrey playing on the 3rd day against Middlesex and being 161-5 in their 1st innings still 94 behind Middlesex and looking to push for the lead.
Surrey captain Rory Hamilton-Brown swung Corey Collymore into the Grand stand before edging a four of the next ball early in the day, but that was about as well as anyone batted for some time.
Chris Jordan was then bowled off the edge by Tim Murtagh before Batty was squared up by Collymore for Joe Denly to take a diving catch at point. Jon Lewis and Hamilton-Brown brought up the 200 when Toby Roland-Jones had HB lbw for 35. Lewis then heaved Dexter just over Collymore at mid-on before hitting one to Murtagh at mid-off. The End came with Jade Dernbach edging RJ to Gareth Berg at gully, Surrey 222 all out trailing by 34.
In reply Lewis opened the bowling with Zander De Bruyn and De Bruyn quickly enticed Denly to play a horrible hack outside off stump to go for 5, 21-1. After lunch, De Bruyn got Chris Rogers caught by Steve Davies for 4 playing a similarly awful shot, 29-2. Dawid Malan then joined Sam Robson and they moved the total along with comparative ease to 65 when Dernbach then clipped the off-bail of Malan on 13. Robson (43) then fell LBW in Dernbach's next over and Neil Dexter departed 3 balls later Middlesex were now 76-5 only 110 ahead. Berg then gave Lewis his 2nd wicket and Batty his 2nd catch to go for 1. John Simpson was then unluckily run out by Lewis in his follow through for a 27 ball 9. Murtagh brought up the 100 off Chris Jordan before Lewis then blasted out Ollie Rayner (7), Roland-Jones (6) and Collymore (0) to finish with 5-41 as Middlesex were bundled out for 106 leaving Surrey needing 141 to win in 4 sessions.
Roland-Jones got the first wicket in the 6th over trapping Jacques Rudolph LBW for 6 before the catch of the day in the next over. Davies (8) cut a short ball from Murtagh towards point where Denly then flung himself to his right to take a cracking catch, 14-2. Mark Ramprakash looked like a man at the end of his career as he and De Bruyn scratched around for 5 overs when Ramprakash edged Roland-Jones very low where Malan dived forward at first slip and took the catch, Ramps wasn't happy to go, but was sent on his way. 22-3 and Surrey looked in a bit of trouble only for Hamilton-Brown to again start hitting out against the bowling. They hauled down the runs required before a loose cut from De Bruyn on 15 gave Rogers a surprise catch at cover, 68-4. HB wasn't about to start blocking and, with a fair slice of luck, he went to his 50 from 49 balls a great innings given the circumstances. Tom Maynard drove a nice four then edged another away before Dexter missed a return catch off him. The last ball before bad light stopped play, Berg couldn't quite cling onto another caught and bowled chance from Maynard as Surrey, not happy to go off, finished 97-4 only needing another 44 to win in a tough game where 19 wickets fell and everyone batted at least once.
