Middlesex v Surrey: Scores and match report

Match scores (Lord's)

Surrey 1st inns: 313 (Sangakkara 114, Sibley 54; Franklin 4-40, Helm 3-81, Finn 2-80)
Surrey 2nd inns: 194-4 (Sangakkara 116*, Borthwick 49; Roland-Jones 3-39)

Middlesex 1st inns: 411 (Malan 115, Franklin 112, Eskinazi 67; Meaker 4-92, Footitt 3-105, Curran 2-72)
Middlesex 2nd inns: 92-2 (Malan 37, Eskinazi 31; Curran 1-19, Footitt 1-10)

Match drawn

Day four report

Middlesex resisted the temptation of a final-day chase to settle for a draw in their Specsavers County Championship clash with London rivals Surrey at Lord's.

The players shook hands on the draw with champions Middlesex on 92 for two after Surrey, dismissed for 339 in their second innings, had set them 242 from 39 overs.

Despite the batting heroics of Surrey's Kumar Sangakkara, who hit his 59th and 60th first-class hundreds on the first and third days of the match, it was Middlesex who generally edged events over the four days.

In pursuit of their unlikely victory target - at an asking rate of 6.2 an over - Middlesex lost opener Nick Gubbins in the fourth when, in pulling a short one from Sam Curran, he was adjudged caught behind by Ben Foakes behind the stumps.

Soon after tea Nick Compton pulled a Mark Footitt bouncer down the throat of the long-leg fielder to go for 18 and put paid to any lingering hopes of a late afternoon run-chase as the hosts batted out time for their third draw of the campaign.

Surrey's first casualty of the morning proved an unpopular one with the good smattering of supporters sat in the base of the Grandstand, many of whom had turned up on the last day to watch Sangakkara bat with the sun on his back.

The Sri Lankan, who had posted his second century of the match and his fourth of the season on day three, added only four to his overnight score when he perished in the sixth over.

Prodding in defence, the 39-year-old left-hander - who is averaging 98.66 after four Championship starts for Surrey - followed a James Franklin leg-cutter and edged low to wicketkeeper John Simpson.

Sam Curran and Foakes then combined to see off the new ball, adding 83 for the sixth wicket, as they both went to deserved fifties.

The stand ended four deliveries before the scheduled lunch break when Sam Curran, pushing forward at one from Ollie Rayner that turned and lifted, feathered to Simpson to depart for 51 and give the spinner his second wicket of the match.

Rayner bagged a third in the mid-session when he tossed one up above the eyeline of Tom Curran (22) and turned it through the gate to clip the top of middle and leg stumps.

With a lead over 230 and the game seemingly as good as safe, Surrey skipper Gareth Batty departed lbw to a shooting off-cutter from Toby Roland-Jones - who took four for 76 - and a run later, Stuart Meaker was bowled by Dawid Malan, the occasional Middlesex leg-spinner, who skidded one through to clip the top of off stump.

With his side 241 ahead and his partner Foakes high and dry on 67 not out, Surrey's last man Footitt spooned a catch to midwicket to gift Malan a second wicket and leave the hosts with an improbable run-a-ball victory chase that would prove well beyond their compass.

Day three report

Kumar Sangakkara frustrated champions Middlesex for the second time in three days at Lord's as his 60th first-class century led the Surrey resistance in this Specsavers County Championship London derby.

The Sri Lankan added an unbeaten 116 to his first-innings 114 as Surrey reached 194 for four second time around - a precarious lead of 96.

Middlesex converted their overnight 296 for five to 411 all out, with James Franklin hitting the 22nd first-class hundred of his career, to secure a first-innings lead of 98.

Surrey looked in some trouble when Toby Roland-Jones struck twice in a superb new-ball spell of two for 15 from six overs to leave the visitors wobbling at 16 for two.

But the 39-year-old Sangakkara, who unveiled a portrait of himself at Lord's before the game, then joined Scott Borthwick in a battling third-wicket partnership which was worth 123 by the time Borthwick was leg-before to off-spinner Ollie Rayner for 49.

Roland-Jones rekindled Middlesex hopes of victory by returning for a third spell in the final hour, from the Nursery End, to bowl Dom Sibley for nine with a beauty which left the right-hander to hit his off stump as he pushed forward defensively.

Still, however, Sangakkara remained. His 98th hundred in all senior cricket - a tally which includes 38 in 134 Tests and a further 25 from 404 one-day international appearances - arrived from 174 balls and, by stumps, the former Sri Lanka captain had faced 199 balls, stroking 14 fours.

In reaching 108 Sangakkara also passed 20,000 first-class runs.

Running in hard from the Pavilion End at the start of Surrey's second innings, Roland-Jones had initially seen Mark Stoneman caught at first slip without scoring and Rory Burns leg-before for 10, to one which nipped back up the slope, after also offering a beefy 30 from 38 balls with the bat in the latter stages of the Middlesex first innings.

Franklin, the 36-year-old former New Zealand all-rounder, went on from his overnight 63 to score 112 from 134 balls before slashing Stuart Meaker to third man 10 minutes before lunch.

His potentially game-deciding sixth-wicket stand with fellow left-hander Dawid Malan had reached 130 before Malan aimed a pull at Meaker's first ball of the morning and gloved a legside catch to a tumbling Ben Foakes behind the stumps.

Malan, on 103 at the start of the day, made 115 from 214 balls in five hours of hard graft, punctuated by 16 fours, and his dismissal brought in Roland-Jones to offer some thumping strokes of his own in an invaluable partnership with Franklin that realised 53.

Roland-Jones, who pulled Mark Footitt for six and plundered three fours in five balls from one Meaker over, then drove Tom Curran straight to mid-off before Franklin finally fell - having hit four sixes and 14 fours - while both Tom Helm and Rayner were out cheaply in the first two overs after lunch.

Meaker finished with four for 92 and Tom Curran, the pick of Surrey's seam quartet, deserved his two late wickets.

Day two report

Dawid Malan hit his maiden century of the season as Middlesex enjoyed the best of the second day of their Specsavers County Championship clash with Surrey at Lord's.

Malan combined with his Middlesex sixth-wicket partner James Franklin to add an unbroken 92 to cut Surrey's first-innings lead to a modest 17 and take the hosts into the third day on 296 for five.

Just before the close Malan reached three figures from 169 balls with 15 fours, while Franklin faced only 67 deliveries in his knock of 63 not out.

Responding to Surrey's workmanlike 313 all out, Middlesex openers Nick Compton and Nick Gubbins added 20 either side of lunch.

On 17, Gubbins moved across his stumps to go lbw after prodding hesitantly outside the line off a late away-swinger - the first ball of the mid-session from Sam Curran.

Curran gave way at the Nursery End to fellow left-armer Mark Footitt, who produced a beauty to account for Compton, the former England batsman who ultimately did well to edge to the wicketkeeper after the ball lifted and left him off the pitch.

Stevie Eskinazi enjoyed some good fortune after he was dropped at second slip by Scott Borthwick on 29 and then, on 41, Eskinazi dragged an attempted drive against Stuart Meaker just wide of his own off-stump. Undaunted, the South Africa-born right-hander continued to go for his shots in moving to a 64-ball 50 with nine fours.

Eskinazi departed for 67 in the final session after feathering a Footitt leg-cutter to the keeper. He and Malan had added 100 for the third wicket.

Borthwick then made amends for his earlier blunder by holding a stinging overhead chance in the slip cordon to account for Adam Voges (9) and give Meaker a first scalp.

Footitt stuck for a third time by trapping John Simpson leg before as he worked across the line to leg, bringing together Franklin and Malan, who survived through to stumps.

Surrey, resuming on their overnight score of 265 for five, had earlier conspired to lose their last five wickets for 48 runs and inside the first 90 minutes of the opening session.

Their first-day century maker Kumar Sangakkara started the demise, perishing to the 12th delivery of the morning.

Having added a single to his Friday-night score of 113, the Sri Lanka, in aiming a back-foot force against Franklin, picked out Ollie Rayner low at gully.

One run later and in his next over, Franklin swung one away from Sam Curran who obligingly followed and edged to Rayner at second slip.

His brother, Tom Curran, then sparred at a spitting delivery from Toby Roland-Jones and edged into the cordon where Rayner, back at second slip, snaffled his third catch inside 25 minutes.

Surrey captain Gareth Batty joined forces with Meaker to post the visitors third batting bonus point before Batty, in aiming a hook against Tom Helm, skied to mid-on where Steven Finn took an excellent tumbling catch.

With 313 on the board, Meaker cut a wayward delivery obligingly to backward point to give Helm figures of three for 81. However, Franklin was easily pick of the home attack with his four for 40 from 15 overs.

Day one report

Kumar Sangakkara stroked an elegant 113 not out in Surrey's opening-day 265 for five against Middlesex at Lord's after enjoying the rare distinction of walking through the pavilion past his own recently commissioned portrait.

The MCC unveiled portraits of both Sangakkara and his fellow former Sri Lanka batting great Mahela Jayawardene on Friday morning before Surrey were put in to bat first in the eagerly awaited Specsavers County Championship clash between the champions and the early-season Division One leaders.

Sangakkara, 39, showcased his enduring class to lead a Surrey recovery from 83 for three. That represented a worrying slide from 55 without loss, but Sangakkara was then joined by Dom Sibley in a fourth-wicket partnership of 114 in 33 overs which steadied the Surrey ship.

Twenty-one-year-old Sibley fought hard to reach 54 from 111 balls, with eight fours, before edging a deserving Tom Helm to Adam Voges at first slip. Earlier, when he had made just 22, Sibley was dropped in the same position, waist-high to his left, by Voges off Helm.

Sangakkara, on 24, would have been run out if Toby Roland-Jones, veering across the pitch in his follow-through to get to the ball, had hit the bowler's stumps on the turn from short mid-wicket when the left-hander had been sent back by Sibley.

That scare apart, however, there was little in the pitch or from the Middlesex attack that seemed to trouble Sangakkara as he drove beautifully through the covers, picked up further runs with a succession of flicks off his pads and, when James Franklin twice over-pitched, punched the left-arm seamer down the ground for two of his 11 fours.

There were also two sixes from consecutive balls for Sangakkara, with both blows struck into the stands over mid-wicket off Ollie Rayner's off-spin. They took him to 95 and, soon, he was easing Rayner through the cover ring for three runs to go to his 97th century in senior cricket.

Ben Foakes, for 19, also fell to a thin edge behind off Steven Finn just before heavy rain arrived to wash away the remaining 24 scheduled overs of the day.

Surrey had earlier declined the chance to bowl first under cloudy skies - forcing a toss which Middlesex won, prompting Franklin to choose to bowl.

A spectacular catch at second slip by Rayner proved the highlight of a fascinating morning session as Surrey started well but then lost three wickets in quick succession before Sangakkara and Sibley counter-attacked after lunch.

Finn made the initial breakthrough by tempting Mark Stoneman, on 33, to chase a wide ball and edge to wicketkeeper John Simpson.

Stoneman, who survived a chance to gully when 20 during a testing new-ball spell by Helm, had put on 55 with Rory Burns.

Rayner dived to scoop up right-handed and just millimetres from the turf an edge from Burns that looked as if it would not carry to the waiting slip cordon. That ended a defiant 33 from the left-handed Burns and gave home captain Franklin the second of two crucial wickets.

Franklin had also pinned Scott Borthwick lbw for eight with one that skidded on and defeated the Surrey number three's attempt to flick it to leg off the back foot.

The surface looked a good one although there was always something in it for the faster bowlers and, either side of losing their first three wickets, Surrey made excellent progress.