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Worcestershire seamer Jack Shantry puts the skids on Surrey | Worcestershire seamer Jack Shantry puts the skids on Surrey |
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In the quirky form of Jack Shantry, Worcestershire fought their way back into the match in the final session at a time when Jason Roy and Gary Wilson had threatened to put it beyond their reach. Forthright and in thoroughly uncomplicated fashion, Roy completed his third championship hundred of the summer for Surrey while Wilson made 77, the pair adding 151 in 32 overs for the fifth wicket before a remarkable intervention from Shantry turned the game round. | |
In the space of eight overs and four balls, Shantry took six of the last seven Surrey wickets for 44, five of them in 30 balls after tea for 15 runs, to finish with six for 87, revisiting his success at the Kia Oval earlier this year when he took six for 53. If it was deserved success for Shantry, a persevering, skilful and underrated bowler, then it was careless batting from Surrey, who, 373 for four at one stage, and looking to establish sufficient lead that they might bat only once, were all out for 406, a first innings lead nonetheless of 134, the last six wickets falling in 10 overs for 33 while Roy was able to add only 17 more runs himself. In dismissing Surrey, Worcestershire ensured maximum bowling points for the 27th successive game. In the six overs left, they made 12 without loss. | |
Surrey still remain favourites to win the game but Worcester will approach the third day in the knowledge that for the next two seasons at least they will be boosted by the presence of the Gloucestershire batsman Alex Gidman, who this week scored a career best 264 against Leicestershire at Bristol and earlier in the summer made 145 at New Road. His signing comes at a time when Moeen Ali is certain to be given an England central contract and will be absent for most of the season. | |
This was a timely intervention from Shantry for until then, Surrey had dominated the day, with Rory Burns reaching 91 before becoming the second of two victims for Mitchell McClenaghan, and Steve Davies a robust 69. | This was a timely intervention from Shantry for until then, Surrey had dominated the day, with Rory Burns reaching 91 before becoming the second of two victims for Mitchell McClenaghan, and Steve Davies a robust 69. |
McClenaghan, incidentally, who at times has bowled genuinely fast, is to return to New Zealand after this match because of the death of his father and will not return for the last game. | |
Shantry provides a contrast to this pace and that of the other seamers Charlie Morris and Joe Leach. He is a gangling left-armer, awkward of action, and little more than medium-fast. | |
But he makes a difficult angle from round the wicket and appears to put a natural cut on the ball so that he found movement away from the right-hander, and with it the edge, where others had not managed to do so. | |
Davies had played some punishing off-side strokes before Shantry found his edge, the ball deflecting from the keeper standing up and looping to slip. | Davies had played some punishing off-side strokes before Shantry found his edge, the ball deflecting from the keeper standing up and looping to slip. |
But his next wicket did not come until after Worcestershire had taken the new ball following the tea interval. First Wilson chipped a return catch having edged the previous ball between keeper and his captain at slip, to the obvious annoyance of the bowler. Then in quick succession, Aneesh Kapil was taken in the gully, Gareth Batty was caught at the wicket first up, attempting to let the ball go, and Stuart Meaker was lbw. | But his next wicket did not come until after Worcestershire had taken the new ball following the tea interval. First Wilson chipped a return catch having edged the previous ball between keeper and his captain at slip, to the obvious annoyance of the bowler. Then in quick succession, Aneesh Kapil was taken in the gully, Gareth Batty was caught at the wicket first up, attempting to let the ball go, and Stuart Meaker was lbw. |
Until then, Roy had played with real aplomb, a confident batsman unafraid to go for his strokes. Thus Shantry was twice clipped through the covers from successive balls, a modicum of width only required, while later, when Moeen appeared with his off-breaks, he was unafraid to move down the pitch and, successively once more, loft him straight so that the bowler was forced to set his field back. | |
His half-century arrived at near enough a run a ball and , until the innings imploded, it looked as if he would only accelerate from that. Instead, he watched powerless until, stuck on 97, he found himself in with the last man, Jade Dernbach. A scampered single only, when he was looking for a second, left Dernbach to play out the remainder of Shantry’s over, before Roy was able to clump Moeen through extra cover to reach three figures. He was last out, lofting Shantry to deep extra cover, his 103 having taken 105 balls and containing 14 fours and a six. |
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