Surrey v Hampshire: Match scores and report

Match scores (The Oval)

Surrey draw with Hampshire

Hampshire 1st inns: 648-7 dec (Bailey 161, Adams 144, Vince 104, Ervine 83, Holland 58*; T Curran 2-85)

Surrey 1st inns: 483 (Burns 219*, Stoneman 57, Sibley 57; Holland 3-37, Abbott 2-45, Edwards 2-120)

Surrey 2nd inns: 166-3 (Burns 68, Stoneman 47; Holland 2-16)

Day four report 

Surrey's Rory Burns produced one of the County Championship's greatest endurance performances to deny a spirited Hampshire side victory at the Kia Oval on Thursday.

Just when Surrey were wondering how they would replace their finest batsman, Kumar Sangakkara, and their captain, Gareth Batty, who were both injured for this match, Burns provided impressive leadership to give his side a draw after following on. 

First he batted for just over 10 hours as he carried his bat for a career-best 219 in a Surrey total of 483 - the hosts missed out on avoiding the follow-on by 16 runs. 

Then he came straight out again and batted for another 153 minutes to score 68 and, by the time he was third out, Surrey were safe in this Division One clash. 

Even then it took a freak dismissal to get rid of Burns. The delivery from Sean Ervine rebounded off wicketkeeper Lewis McManus' pads and onto the stumps to leave the batsman stumped. 

Burns, 26, had a previous highest score of 199. But, in general, he has a reputation for not converting his many 50s into the centuries that capture media and selectors' attention. 

That was hardly the case in this match. He looked likely to be on the field for every minute of the match, until he got out half an hour before the close, and batted from tea on Tuesday until just after tea on Thursday. 

Hampshire have been terrific in this game. They found ways to take wickets on a pitch which, if anything, was a little too good. The surface started flat and slow and refused to change its personality. But Hampshire were the more deserving team. 

First they made the fifth-highest score in the county's history and then they had the determination and the variety in their attack to take wickets and, but for Burns, would surely have prevailed. 

Surrey resumed on the fourth day on 410 for seven, needing another 89 runs to avoid the follow-on. That looked well within reach as Burns and Tom Curran continued their unperturbed partnership. 

Curran reached his half-century off 94 balls with seven fours. In the process, he reached 1,000 first-class runs before he was bowled by Ian Holland for 53. 

Holland was Hampshire's demon bowler of the day. In his next over, he bowled Amar Virdi and, just as Surrey looked likely to reach their target of 499, he dismissed last man Mark Footitt. 

Surprisingly, Hampshire did not use Holland in Surrey's second innings until 30 overs had passed. 

He came on and took two wickets in three balls, having Mark Stoneman lbw and then bowling Scott Borthwick for a duck, but Hampshire never looked like taking the remaining seven wickets on this track.    

Day three report

Rory Burns stood alone for Surrey against Hampshire on the third day of their Specsavers County Championship match at The Kia Oval.

Surrey's acting captain, standing in for the injured Gareth Batty, scored his first century of the season as his side battled to save the follow-on against a bowling unit that displayed more aggression, variety and experience than the home side had managed on the opening two days.

Apart from a dogged half-century from Dominic Sibley, the only meaningful resistance came from Burns, who scored an unbeaten 174 in a Surrey total of 410 for seven as they pursued 499 just to avoid the follow-on.

He was dropped twice, on 98 and 154, but otherwise never looked in trouble against Hampshire's spirited attack that toiled away on the hottest day of the match.

Surrey resumed on 113 for one in reply to Hampshire's 648 for seven declared and were glued together all day by the determined Burns.

In the fourth over of the morning, Hampshire's gifted leg-spinner Mason Crane straightened one nicely and nightwatchman Conor McKerr, on the back foot, was lbw for one.

But it was when Surrey lost a top-order batsman, Scott Borthwick, for a meagre three, that Surrey supporters realised they had a real battle on their hands.

It was 137 for three when Borthwick got a very thin edge to one from Kyle Abbott and was caught behind. But already Burns was looking immense.

Jason Roy played an attacking cameo of an innings, and attempted to break the stranglehold Crane had on the side from the Vauhall End.

In one over Roy hit Crane over midwicket and then straight-drove him for another boundary. But he had scored only 27 when he was lbw to one that moved back into him from Gareth Berg.

Surrey were wobbling at 204 for four at lunch, with Burns on 88.

Burns had a life when he was dropped at first slip by Sean Ervine off Fidel Edwards, a difficult chance.

He and Sibley had taken their fifth-wicket stand to 104 when Sibley shouldered arms to a ball from Abbott that nipped back and had him lbw for 57.

Surrey were showing plenty of character but then they were rocked by a fiery spell from Edwards after tea.

The former West Indies fast bowler really bent his back and dug one in short to Ben Foakes who pulled it straight to midwicket where Rilee Rossouw held on to a good catch.

In his next over Edwards induced Sam Curran to edge one between wicketkeeper and first slip. Then he found the outside edge again and this time the batsman edged to the keeper to make it 348 for seven.

Edwards then gave Tom Curran a torrid time but he and the admirable Burns saw Surrey through to the close without further damage.

Day two report

Surrey's batsmen showed some character when asked to reply to Hampshire's huge total at the Kia Oval on Tuesday.

Against the challenging attack of Kyle Abbott, Fidel Edwards, Gareth Berg and the gifted young leg-spinner Mason Crane, Surrey openers Mark Stoneman and Rory Burns put on 103 before Sean Ervine had the former caught at first slip for 57.

At the close of the second day Surrey were 113 for one in reply to Hampshire's vast 648 for seven, but the hosts will know that their opponents will come at them hard again on Wednesday in this Specsavers County Championship clash.

Hampshire resumed on 361 for four and did not lose a wicket in the morning. 

Their dominance was exemplified when the pugnacious Ervine took four fours off a single Sam Curran over, when the bowler's line strayed to leg.

At lunch Hampshire were 497 for four, having added 136 in the opening session.

By the time Surrey took their first wicket of the day George Bailey and Ervine had added 167 - the score was 528 when Ervine inside-edged a delivery from Conor McKerr onto his stumps. There had been eight fours and a six in his 123-ball 83.

Bailey had added exactly 100 to his overnight 61 when he was sixth out at 600, caught at long-on as he attempted to wipe yet more pre-declaration runs.

By now, though, everyone was engrossed by the innings from Ian Holland, who at almost 27 is playing in only his fifth first-class match after winning the Cricket Superstar TV reality show in 2012.

Holland, who was born in Wisconsin and has been an outstanding club player in Australia, progressed to his maiden first-class half-century and his jaunty unbeaten innings of 58 from 76 balls included three fours.

Hampshire finally declared with the fall of their seventh wicket, Berg, who swatted his way to 35 from 16 balls before he was out having another big heave in the final over before tea.

Surrey's bowling was ordinary over the game's first five sessions but this has been a most unhelpful pitch and, without their captain - Gareth Batty is injured, along with star batsman Kumar Sangakkara - the attack has lacked experience. 

Day one report

Contrasting centuries from Jimmy Adams and James Vince put Hampshire in command of their Specsavers County Championship Division One match against Surrey at the Kia Oval.

Opener Adams played the anchor role to perfection, scoring 144 of Hampshire's opening-day 361 for four, while Vince's 104 from 129 balls was the far more flamboyant affair which revitalised the innings after a tough first session against a seaming ball.

The pair added 161 in 35 overs for the third wicket after Surrey's Curran brothers had each taken a wicket to reduce the visitors to 71 for two having won the toss. 

At lunch Adams had ground out 24 from 89 balls, but it was a different story in the next two sessions as Surrey's attack wilted.

The 36-year-old Adams had hit two sixes and 19 fours, from 262 balls, when he was bowled from the first ball of the day's final over by teenage off-spinner Amar Virdi.

Vince, who was a fixture in England's Test team last summer, hit 19 fours in his 20th first-class ton and the only disappointment in a high-class knock came when he flashed at a widish ball from Tom Curran to be caught at the wicket - having twice almost doing the same when he was on 98.

George Bailey then came in to hit an assured 61 not out as he and left-hander Adams ensured it would be Hampshire's day in a further fourth-wicket stand of 129.

Both Adams and Bailey hit straight sixes off 18-year-old Virdi, the teenager making his second first-class appearance after Surrey captain Gareth Batty was forced out by a calf injury in the warm-up.

Rory Burns stepped in to lead Surrey, who were also missing Kumar Sangakkara through injury. 

The Sri Lankan split the webbing in a hand during Surrey's Royal London One-Day Cup final defeat against Nottinghamshire at Lord's on Saturday.

With more good fortune Surrey would have had made further inroads into Hampshire's top order in the morning session.

But Adams' initial strokelessness was more than vindicated by the way he and Vince transformed the innings in a partnership which took a lot of the fight out of Surrey's bowlers.

The 26-year-old Vince was jettisoned by England after managing only 212 runs in seven Tests in 2016, at an average of 19 and with a top score of just 42, but his stroke-making ability has never been in question.

Vince reached his fifty in 71 balls, with 10 fours, while Adams laboured for 138 balls to reach the same landmark before eventually opening up with a series of lovely off-side strokes as Surrey's bowlers came under increasing pressure.

Some of Vince's off-side play - both driving through extra cover and forcing off the back foot - was truly memorable, while Adams, who was on 83 at tea, raced to three figures soon after the interval.

He drove Virdi for a six and two fours in the space of four balls to speed to 98 and completed his 23rd first-class hundred with a two through midwicket off Sam Curran. Later, Adams also pulled Tom Curran for six.

During Hampshire's earlier struggles, Sam Curran bowled Lewis McManus for 13 with a full inswinger and Tom Curran removed Rilee Rossouw for 28 with the third ball of his second spell - the left-hander pushing forward with hard hands and edging to Scott Borthwick at second slip.