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After winning the toss, Kent captain Rob Ferley decided to bat- a decision partly influenced by the fact the three of his team were still missing, held up in a traffic jam at the time. The Surrey opening bowlers Jimmy Ormond and Tim Murtagh made immediate inroads into the Kent side, reducing them to 25-4 in eight overs, on a track that yielded over 700 runs in a match the previous day. A stand of 77 between Andy Senn and Rob Ferley tool Kent to 99-5 but Surrey skipper Stewart Walters then brought Zohab Sharif into the attack to bowl his leg breaks. In his first over he broke the partnership, bowling Senn for 41. Two more wickets for Sharif saw Kent in trouble at 132-7 after 36 overs, but Ferley batted on with Martin Saggers, adding 40 for the eighth wicket before a reverse sweep shot went horribly wrong and served up a catch to Jade Dernbach off the bowling of Ormond. He had scored a patient 78 from 124 balls in almost two and a half hours. Saggers finished on 28* and the Kent total reached 210 before Iles was run out with one ball of the innings remaining. This was a good bowling performance by Surrey, with Ormond taking 4-40, Sharif 3-21 and Tim Murtagh 2-39.

The Surrey innings got off to a shaky start with Chris Murtagh and Stewart Walters out cheaply but Richard Clinton (42) and Zoheb Sharif (53) built the score up to 91-3 before Clinton was caught at mid-off from the bowling of Ferley. Sharif also shared a partnership of 42 with Arun Harinath, before Harinath was bowled by Malcolm-Hansen when the score was 151-6.

The last five overs were played out by wicket-keeper Stephen Pope (27*) and Jimmy Ormond (15*). They came together with the score on 178-7 requiring 33 runs for victory from 34 balls. At the end of the 49th over the score was 204 and seven runs were needed from the last over which was bowled by Ferley. Three runs were scored from the first five balls- with the Kent crowd loudly applauding each dot ball- and Ormond attempted to drive the last to the boundary. It was cut off by a fielder and only one run ensued. Surrey had lost by two runs.

Report written by Second Eleven Scorer, Jennifer Booth

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