As Compton showed earlier, the pitch isn't impossible to bat on if you apply yourself properly. Got to bowl them out for 100 or so to give ourselves any sort of a chance.
Or at least ensure that we get an 8 point deduction for a 'poor' pitch even if we do, somehow, go on and win. Nothing like a bit of doom and gloom to end the evening
Looking at the batting this morning there isn't much wrong with the pitch, yesterday it would appear lack of application was the cause of the mayhem.
There isn't once you see off the new ball. It was 100% atrocious batting. We've prepared pitches like this all season.
We've had a few amazing lazarus like comebacks in matches in the last couple of years but this will top the lot of them if we can come out of this situation not losing it and therefore not conceding the championship.
Honestly, the pitch looks docile now the ball has got softer. The pitch tends to flatten out at the Ageas Bowl so we're not in lost cause territory yet.
The pitch is flat now. All we had to do was bat out the session last night and wait until the ball got softer to score runs. It's prime batting conditions now.
I think it will be a terrific effort to win the game from here although I wouldn't put it past them at all, surely the draw is out of the question with so much time left.
Don't worry, Weatherley will save the day with a double ton! Surrey going well now too, unfortunately
I'm a bit surprised Surrey enforced the follow on TBH. If they had elected not to they would have surely batted Yorks out of the game which, given Hants situation, would have been the way I would have expected them to go.
I guess they're confident Yorks won't make 350+ which would make things interesting. There's always that risk when a team narrowly avoids the follow on target makes a much better total in their 2nd innings.
The main story of these two games at the Bowl and the Oval is, of course, the title race. But the hidden story is the situation which Yorkshire are sleep walking into. They've never really been in the relegation battle all season. But unless the course of these two games suddenly turns, or they get an unexpected favour from Gloucs (which is probably the most likely of the three outcomes), Yorkshire could find themselves slipping from 6th to 8th, and just one point above 9th.
And in the space of five minutes, Yorks might well be getting the favour from Gloucs. From a potential disaster week for Yorks, to a potential disaster week for Warks.
