Surrey v Lancashire: Match report & scores

Match scores (The Oval)

Match drawn

Lancashire 1st inns: 470 all out (Chanderpaul 182, Clark 140; Footitt 5-118)

Surrey 1st inns: 319 (Burns 91, Sangakkara 46, Stoneman 40; Parry 3-31)
Surrey 2nd inns (following on): 323-3 (Sangakkara 136, Borthwick 108 no; Kerrigan 2-24)

Day four report

Scott Borthwick and Kumar Sangakkara hit hundreds as Surrey lost only two wickets on the final day to secure a worthy Specsavers County Championship draw with Lancashire.

The two left-handers showed admirable patience and technique by combining to add 256 for the third wicket, as Sangakkara posted his seventh first-class hundred for the Brown Caps.

At the other end, Borthwick notched his first ton in Surrey colours and remained unbeaten on 108 as the hosts reached 323 for three - for a lead of 172 when the players shook hands on the draw at 4.50pm.

Having failed to avoid the follow-on by an agonising two runs on Sunday afternoon, Surrey resumed their second innings on their overnight score of 55 for one - representing an overall match deficit of 96 going into bank holiday Monday's fourth and final day.

They soon appeared in deeper trouble when Lancashire's left-arm spinner Stephen Parry struck in only his second over of the day from the Pavilion End. With a nicely flighted arm-ball, he drew Mark Stoneman (27) down the pitch to beat the left-hander's defensive push past the outside edge, leaving Alex Davies to smash down the stumps and complete a comfortable - if somewhat scruffy - stumping.

That was the cue for third-wicket partners Sangakkara and Borthwick to dig in. Either side of lunch and tea the pair added an admirable 256 under the floodlights to block out the prospect of a Lancashire win.

Borthwick, the close-season signing from Durham, posted a patient 129-ball 50 with three fours and soon after, Sangakkara went past the milestone from only 77 balls with three fours and a six.

With sweepers positioned on both the leg and off-side boundaries, Lancashire skipper Liam Livingstone introduced his own leg-spin at the Pavilion End to cause Sangakkara his only real headaches of the day.

The winner of 134 Test caps, Sangakkara survived an appeal for lbw after padding up to a Livingstone top-spinner then prodded just out of the reach of short leg to help the hosts reach 200 just before 3pm.

Then, with his score on 72, Sangakkara edged another Livingstone top-spinner only to see Ryan McLaren down a simple catch at slip. Rather than doubting his capabilities to defend thereafter, Sangakkara duly went on the counter against Livingstone by plundering a brace of fours in his next over to effectively hit him out of the attack.

Sangakkara dominated the strike through until tea and continued to go for his shots, sweeping against Simon Kerrigan for his 11th four to post his 57th first-class century and take his side in at tea with a lead of 104.

As the game limped into its final session Borthwick, who scored Championship centuries in both innings for his former county against Lancashire at Chester-le-Street last May, went to his 16th first-class hundred from 233 balls with a thunderous pull off a Parry long-hop for his 10th boundary.

Kerrigan looked as surprised as anyone in the ground when he bowled Sangakkara around his legs to end his four-and-a-quarter hour stay for 136, the first wicket for 64.2 overs. The draw was completed five minutes later.

Day three report

Spinners Simon Kerrigan and Stephen Parry will aim to bowl Lancashire to a last-day victory against Surrey at the Kia Oval after the home team were made to follow-on.

The slow left-armers took five first-innings wickets between them as Surrey were bowled out for 319 in reply to Lancashire's 470.

In Surrey's second innings, Rory Burns, having added 20 to his first-innings 91, had just cut Kerrigan for four when he was caught behind pushing forward defensively.

Mark Stoneman and Scott Borthwick saw Surrey through to the close on 55 for one.

Lancashire had to settle for a draw in their opening Specsavers County Championship Division One match against Essex, despite dominating much of last week's contest at Chelmsford, but this time they will expect to finish the job on a pitch beginning to take turn.

Parry took three for 31 in 24.2 overs first time around, taking the last two Surrey wickets in successive balls to leave them an agonising two runs short of avoiding the follow-on.

Gareth Batty, who had batted well to reach 33 in a fighting ninth-wicket stand of 57 with Tom Curran (33 not out), drove straight to mid-off before last man Mark Footitt was lbw pushing defensively at his first ball.

Kerrigan, who did much to initiate a Surrey slide from 211 for two, took two for 15 in a marathon 21-over spell - 11 of which were maidens. He and Parry rendered the Surrey middle order almost strokeless for most of the afternoon, after Parry had seen Kumar Sangakkara chip his first ball of the day tamely to short midwicket to go for 46, just after being dropped off Kerrigan.

Both Sangakkara and Burns, who resumed on 48 in Surrey's overnight 112 for two, looked in little trouble against Lancashire's seamers, although it was Kyle Jarvis who eventually broke a third-wicket stand of 99 when Burns pushed loosely and edged behind.

Then, five runs later, came Parry's immediate success against Sangakkara and, with the left-arm spinners now in tandem, Surrey's innings fell away as the pressure built against two bowlers rattling through their overs but never losing their accuracy.

Kerrigan bowled Ben Foakes for nine, firing a leg-stump yorker through his defences, and an equally strokeless Dominic Sibley was run out for 10 after being sent back by Zafar Ansari as he pushed Kerrigan into the off side.

Ansari was twice all but bowled by Kerrigan before having his leg stump knocked back on three by another that turned between bat and pad.

Sam Curran greeted the return of Ryan McLaren, armed with the much-delayed second new ball, by immediately clipping to midwicket on 14 to leave Surrey struggling at 262 for eight.

Sam's brother Tom, however, stood firm in company with Surrey captain Batty to rally the home side for a while - before Parry broke through with the scalps of Batty and Footitt to put Lancashire in complete control. 

Day two report

Shivnarine Chanderpaul proved age is but a number as he registered a quite brilliant 182 for Lancashire against Surrey at the Kia Oval.

The quirky 42-year-old left-hander, who played 164 Tests for the West Indies hobbled his way to the score in generally overcast conditions in SE11 before eventually succumbing to fatigue.

Last man out after eight hours in the middle, he helped the Red Rose county to add 176 to their overnight score for an all-out total of 470.

By stumps, Surrey had reached 112 for two in almost batting out the day's 42 remaining overs either side of tea. They lost Mark Stoneman lbw for 40, and Scott Borthwick (19), caught behind off the penultimate ball of the day from Kyle Jarvis, to reduce their side's first-innings deficit to 358 at the midpoint of this Specsavers County Championship first division clash. Yet the day undoubtedly belonged to Chanderpaul.

Having already posted the 74th century of his first-class career from 213 balls, the Guyanan needed five minutes' treatment to his right thigh during the mid-session before being helped gingerly to his feet. After considering his options, Chanderpaul called on Luke Procter to act as runner and re-took his guard.

He and his more expansive seventh-wicket partner, Jordan Clark, continued to make hay on a Surrey shirt-front with Clark battering a rare half-volley from Mark Footitt to the extra cover ropes to raise their 200 stand and beat Lancashire's previous seventh-wicket record against the brown caps of 198 - set by Alexander Eccles and John I'Anson at Old Trafford in 1902 - in the process.

Their stand had reached 243 when Clark, on a career-best 140, aimed to sweep against Gareth Batty only to be caught, via a thin inside edge and his front pad, by Rory Burns at slip. The burly 26-year-old right-hander faced 212 balls and hit 23 fours and three sixes.

Moments later Chanderpaul pulled up soon after ambling a third run into the deep and, after extensive treatment to his thigh, continued with Procter as his runner.

After lunch, Footitt switched to the Vauxhall End to complete his fifth five-wicket haul in as many first-class games for Surrey. Bowling around the wicket and just short of a length, the left-armer got two deliveries to hold their line and feather the edge as both Stephen Parry (21) and Jarvis (0) departed to catches behind the stumps by Ben Foakes in the space of four balls.

Chanderpaul hobbled on, however, planting two straight sixes off a disbelieving Borthwick into the pavilion seats as he and number 11 Simon Kerrigan added a further 63 in 18 overs for the 10th wicket.

Chanderpaul's marathon ended a shade after 3.30pm when his tired, yet typically wristy drive against Batty looped to Borthwick at extra cover, leaving Kerrigan unbeaten on 20. The veteran left-hander faced 328 balls and hit 21 fours to go with his brace of sixes.

Footitt, with five for 118 - his fifth five-wicket return in as many championship starts - was the pick of the Surrey attack, while Batty chipped in with three for 72, including the prized scalp of Chanderpaul. Little wonder the Surrey skipper's overwhelming emotion appeared to be relief in finally seeing the diminutive West Indian's back.

Day one report

Jordan Clark scored his maiden first-class hundred to lead a magnificent Lancashire recovery against Surrey at The Oval.

Lancashire looked in all sorts of trouble at 67 for five but all-rounder Clark joined forces with veteran batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul to turn things around and guide the visitors to 294 for six at stumps.

The duo's stand is already worth 172 runs and while Chanderpaul did much to stop Surrey's charge with a typically determined 85 not out, it was Clark who stole the limelight.

The 26-year-old finished the day unbeaten on 108 off 133 balls having struck 17 fours and three sixes, one of which brought up his hundred when he hooked Mark Footitt beyond the ropes in an over that brought the batsman 18 runs.

That over, the 76th of the day, saw Clark storm past his previous career-best of 84 not out in a stream of boundaries, beginning with fours from a slash to third man, a gloved hook high over the wicketkeeper's head and a magnificent extra cover drive, and ending with the perfectly-executed hook for six.

With the ball still in the air, Clark raised both arms in triumph and Chanderpaul led the applause.

Footitt's nine-over morning burst of three for 29 had earlier undermined Lancashire after they had chosen to bat, with Surrey looking set to take command in much the same way as they had dismantled Warwickshire's batting in their season-opening victory last week.

Paceman Footitt claimed six for 14 in that match as Warwickshire were skittled for 91 and he wreaked further havoc on Friday as he dismissed Alan Davies, new Lancashire captain Liam Livingstone and Dane Vilas before lunch from the Pavilion End.

The Curran brothers, Sam and Tom, weighed in with the wickets of England opener Haseeb Hameed - who fell for a second-ball duck - and Luke Procter to leave Lancashire in danger of failing to reach three figures.

Chanderpaul, however, had other ideas and, four months short of his 43rd birthday, the former West Indies batsman showed he still has all the limpet-like qualities at the crease that he possessed in abundance when scoring 11,867 runs at an average of 51.37, with 30 hundreds, in 164 Test appearances.

He had already figured in a sixth-wicket partnership of 55 with Ryan McLaren when Clark joined him in the stand which completed changed the complexion of the match.

McLaren looked distraught at being given out lbw as he played back to Gareth Batty's arm ball - his reaction perhaps revealing that he felt he had got an inside edge - and he had played positively for his 28.

Once he went, Clark too looked to take the attack to Surrey's bowlers while Chanderpaul merely contented himself with unhurried accumulation and the occasional forcing stroke.

Surrey will rue giving Chanderpaul a life on 47, though, when he edged the ever-probing Tom Curran low to second slip where Scott Borthwick - one of the finest slip fielders in the domestic game - could not cling on as he dived to his right.

Clark, who announced himself by driving off-spinner Batty back over his head for the first of his three sixes, played some powerful strokes and beat in-form Chanderpaul to fifty by completing his own half-century from just 65 balls.

Both players continued to flourish and they remained unmoved through a final session which saw 17 overs lost to bad light.