By Richard Spiller

OLLIE Pope lapped up the opportunity to feast in the Oval run glut.England’s most exciting young player cracked a career-best 274 as Surrey and Glamorgan’s batsmen made the most of a featherbed, one which will doubtless give bowlers nightmares for the winter.Acting captain for the match, he led them to 722-4 in reply to Glamorgan’s 672- 6dec before the match passed quietly away.“Brilliant, outstanding, magnificent - you can use almost any objective for Ollie Pope,” reckoned Alec Stewart, Surrey’s director of cricket.Pope...