By Mark Baldwin
April 24-27, The Kia Oval, Kennington
Essex 409 (Walter 101, Elgar 92, Lawrence 3-14, Lawes 2-89, Abbott 2-80) Surrey 192-3 (Sibley 74*, Pope 69, Porter 2-33, Snater 1-43)
Toss: Surrey won the toss and decided to field Officials: Martin Saggers, Jack Shantry, Phil Whitticase
Who knows what might have happened if I had not dropped a pretty simple caught and bowled when Paul Walter had just got past 50?
SURREY’S SEAN ABBOTT
DAY ONE
PAUL WALTER blunted Surrey’s five-pronged pace attack for almost five hours with a patient 101 as Essex reached 325 for...