Stone takes six as Nottinghamshire turn the tables on Surrey

Key Highlights

• In the same over Ollie Pope, released to play in the game after he was left out of England's First Test team, was squared up for a five-ball duck.
• 19ReportOutstanding display of fast bowling steals a march for champions before batters build promising leadOlly Stone claimed six wickets for Nottinghamshire • Getty Images Nottinghamshire 184 (Patterson-White 76*, Lawes 5-45) and 147 for 3 (Clarke 37*) lead Surrey 162 (Thomas 48, Burns 44, Stone 6-44) by 169 runsOutstanding fast bowling by Olly Stone, who took six for 44, put champions Nottinghamshire in control after two days against Surrey at the Kia Oval.
• Surrey lost their last eight wickets for 87 to be dismissed for 162, a first-innings deficit of 22.
• For the first hour or so Surrey seemed to be building a position of strength after the early loss of nightwatchman Matthew Fisher, lbw when Brett Hutton swung one into his pads.
• Rory Burns timed the ball nicely when he took successive boundaries off Hutton, including a lovely drive down the ground, as he and Adam Thomas carefully negotiated the new ball.

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19ReportOutstanding display of fast bowling steals a march for champions before batters build promising leadOlly Stone claimed six wickets for Nottinghamshire • Getty Images Nottinghamshire 184 (Patterson-White 76*, Lawes 5-45) and 147 for 3 (Clarke 37*) lead Surrey 162 (Thomas 48, Burns 44, Stone 6-44) by 169 runsOutstanding fast bowling by Olly Stone, who took six for 44, put champions Nottinghamshire in control after two days against Surrey at the Kia Oval.

Surrey lost their last eight wickets for 87 to be dismissed for 162, a first-innings deficit of 22.

It was some comeback by Notts who had been 104 for eight on day one and they strengthened their position in a lengthy evening session of 45 overs, reaching stumps on 147 for three - a lead of 169.

Pitches at the Oval tend to become easier to bat on days three and four and Surrey won't feel they are out of this game if they make early inroads on Saturday.

But in what has been a high-quality tussle between the last two winners of the Rothesay County Championship it is Nottinghamshire, who hold a two-point lead at the top, with the advantage, thanks principally to the outstanding Stone.

The 32-year-old, who made the last of his five Test appearances on this ground less than two years ago, bowled a consistently hard length in three spells from the Vauxhall End, challenging both edges of the bat regularly and troubling the batsmen with occasional steepling bounce.

For the first hour or so Surrey seemed to be building a position of strength after the early loss of nightwatchman Matthew Fisher, lbw when Brett Hutton swung one into his pads.

Rory Burns timed the ball nicely when he took successive boundaries off Hutton, including a lovely drive down the ground, as he and Adam Thomas carefully negotiated the new ball.

Thomas had some fortune along the way.

He was put down by wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne on 21 and by Freddie McCann at second slip on 29, both off the luckless Hutton.

Their stand had swelled to 59 when Burns loosely upper-cut Stone to deep backward point and Stone and his team grabbed the initiative.

Report

In the same over Ollie Pope, released to play in the game after he was left out of England's First Test team, was squared up for a five-ball duck.

Josh Blake, substituting for Ryan Patel who injured a finger in the field on day one, averted the hat-trick with a boundary off the splice to third man but Stone had his tail up and struck twice in the same over later in his spell.

Originally reported by ESPN Cricinfo. TechVeb news desk.