Well, well, well. That's tea and Surrey have only taken 1 wicket all day. How brave do Hants feel? 161 needed from 34 overs with plenty of batting left. 4.7 an over is achievable, particularly with the short boundary.
I'll hold my hands up, he's proven me wrong today. However, he needs to keep this up. His fitrst 3 innings this season were awful.
Yeah, we've got some natural quick scorers to come, negotiate the new ball and it's definitely winnable.
We should have a go at least. If we lose a few quick wickets we can always shut up shop. There's nothing in the pitch to alarm the batters, just the new ball to see off.
A win at the Oval are what dreams are made of but a draw would be so valuable too in the grand scheme of things.
I'm still not wanting us to up the run rate yet because there's still enough overs for us to lose this. Continue to go deeper into the innings first, to pretty much take a defeat off the table, and then think about having a go for the last 10 to 15 overs if we still have wickets in hand.
Way too early to play that shot. A required rate of 5.7 is far from out of hand. Even if it had gone up to 7 or 8, it would have been fine. But instead we now have an end open, the ball still new, and over 22 overs left.
Two more overs, maybe three, and then press "go". Eight an over is the top end of where I want the RR to be.
