da brwin： Another fine bowling performance, once again led by Ian Salisbury, whofinished with match figures of 11 for 154 – his second best of the season -brought Surrey victory by an innings and 68 runs
da luck： Andy Jalil09-Sep-2000Another fine bowling performance, once again led by Ian Salisbury, whofinished with match figures of 11 for 154 – his second best of the season -brought Surrey victory by an innings and 68 runs. But this marvellous winover Durham does not give last year’s County Champions a second successivechampionship just yet.That should, however, be a formality for the London side after their nextgame against Lancashire at Old Trafford next week. All they need from thatmatch is one point to take the title and realising the ease of their task,Surrey’s players are, quite understandably, already celebrating.To win the championship for two consecutive years would be a superbachievement. Before winning it last summer they had to wait for 28 years totop the table and prior to that, it may be remembered, were the glory yearsof the fifties when under the captaincy of Stuart Surridge for five years andthen Peter May, they won the title for seven successive years from 1952 to1958. That record of consecutive wins is likely to stand for a long whileyet.There were some great names in the team then, including Laker, Lock, Loader,the Bedser twins, Barrington and so on. The one player in the present sidewith personal connection with that legendary team is Alec Stewart whosefather, Mickey, had come into the side near the start of his career.Surrey did not take long to wrap up the game today, they needed to take tenDurham wickets and they did so in just over a session and a half. They wentabout their business straightaway in the first full over of the day when AlexTudor took two wickets from successive balls. He had Jon Lewis, who is thetemporary captain of the already relegated team, trapped leg before wicketand then took the most important one of their premier batsman, Simon Katichwho had scored 77 in the first innings.Durham were two down for 16 and 14 runs later Paul Collingwood wasunfortunate to be run-out when Salisbury, the bowler, deflected the ball onto the stumps with the non-striker backing-up. The visitors then lost twomore wickets on the same score, Michael Gough was caught at short extra-covergiving Tudor his third wicket and Jimmy Daley was bowled by a Salisburygoogly. Half the Durham side were dismissed for 43.Some resistence from Martin Speight, the top scorer with 48 and Andy Pratt,31, took their side to 120 before Pratt was caught at fourth slip off MartinBicknell and soon after that Salisbury had Speight caught at second slip.Saqlain Mushtaq’s only victim was Nicholas Phillips who was caught behind offthat typical Saqlain-ball that drifts away from the right-hander.Salisbury ended the proceedings bowling Stephen Harmison around his legs andthen claimed his 51st. championship wicket of the season having Neil Killeencaught behind with the total on 144. It was Salisbury’s second ten-wickethaul of the season, he had 12 for 91 on this grouind against Somerset in June.The cheering Surrey supporters gathered in front of the pavilion after theoverwhelming victory had already sensed that the championship title is comingto the Oval again.
