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Toss Winner - Surrey won the toss and choose to bowl first
Match Drawn
Can Surrey topple Nottinghamshire from first place?
We predict that the match will end in a draw.
| Tournament: | County Championship Division One 2026 |
| Format: | test |
| Venue: | Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, Nottingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom |
| Toss Prediction: | To Bowl |
| Weather: | 11.1°C|Partly Cloudy |
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| Bookie | NottinghamshireNOT | SurreySUR |
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The County Championship Division One will observe a game between the top two teams. The table toppers, Nottinghamshire, will play against the second-placed Surrey at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, from 8th May and will start at 3:30 pm IST. The outcome of the game will define the hold on the first spot.
Nottinghamshire are currently in first place in the points table with 67 points. They have 2 wins in 4 games. They have beaten Glamorgan by 192 runs and Leicestershire by 10 wickets. Joe Clarke and Ben Slater have collectively scored 1010 runs in 4 games for them with 2 centuries and 7 half-centuries. Nottinghamshire are unbeaten in the last 5 games with 3 wins and 2 draws.
Surrey are also unbetaen in four games. After playing a draw in the first three games, they finally won the last game by 8 wickets against Sussex. They are currently in the second place with 59 points. Dom Sibley has 983 runs in the last 10 games and has scored 187 runs in the last game.
Both teams played each other at the Kennington Oval, London, in the last season. The Notts scored 231 runs while batting first, with Ben Slater being the only half-century. A collective bowling effort helped Nottinghamshire take a lead of 58 runs in the first innings. Matthew Fisher took 11 wickets in the game for Surrey. Chasing 314 runs, Surrey were bowled out to 294. Josh Tongue picked up 5 wickets to help Notts win the game by 20 runs.
NOT
279/9 in 50.0 5.58
RLODC
Surrey beat Nottinghamshire by 10 runs
289/8 in 50.0 5.78
291/10 in 47.2 6.15
343/7 in 50.0 6.86
278/9 in 50.0 5.56
RLODC
Nottinghamshire beat Glamorgan by 7 wickets
282/3 in 46.3 6.06
SUR
147/6 in 14.0 10.5
154/4 in 14.0 11
269/4 in 39.4 6.78
266/6 in 49.0 5.43
279/9 in 50.0 5.58
RLODC
Surrey beat Nottinghamshire by 10 runs
289/8 in 50.0 5.78
Surrey beat Nottinghamshire by 10 runs
Nottinghamshire are coming into the game with a win over Leicestershire. Ben Slater scored 178 runs in the first innings. He will open the innings with Haseeb Hameed. The duo added their fifth 50-plus partnership of the season against Leicestershire. Hameed has 241 runs in 4 games with a century. Slater has 464 runs in 4 games at an average of 66.28. Ben Duckett will come in at number three. Duckett scored 77 runs in the last game. He has scored 258 runs in 3 games with a half-century in each.
Joe Clarke will come in the middle with Olly Stone, Jack Haynes, and Kyle Verreynne. Clarke is the leading run-scorer of Division One with 546 runs in 7 innings. He has a century and 4 half-centuries, including 97 runs in the last game. He will be the batter to watch out for. Olly Stone is yet to play a big innings and has just 11 runs in 2 innings. Haynes has added 200 runs in this season with a century and a half-century. Verreynne also has a century in 4 games and has scored 198 runs.
Liam Patterson-White will lead the bowling attack with Brett Hutton, Dillon Pennington, and Olly Stone. Patterson-White picked up 5 wickets in the last innings to take his wicket tally to 15. Olly Stone picked up 8 wickets in the last game, including a five-fer in the first. Pennington has 11 wickets in 4 games, while Hutton has 8 in 3. It will be interesting to see if Josh Tongue gets included in the playing 11. Tongue picked up 8 wickets in the last season against Surrey.
Key Players: Joe Clarke, Ben Slater, Liam Patterson-White.
Haseeb Hameed (c), Ben Slater, Ben Duckett, Joe Clarke, Jack Haynes, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Lyndon James, Liam Patterson-White, Olly Stone, Dillon Pennington, James Hayes, Brett Hutton.
Haseeb Hameed, Benjamin Slater, Jack Haynes, Kyle Verreynne, Fergus O’Neill, Lyndon James, Josh Tongue, Liam Patterson-White, Joe Clarke, Olly Stone, Ben Duckett
Surrey became lucky on their fourth attempt after ending the first three games in a draw. Dominic Sibley scored a consecutive century to guide Surrey to a massive total of 622. Adam Thomas also scored 120 runs in the middle. Sibley will open the innings with Rory Burns. The duo added 148 runs in the last game for the first wicket. Burns scored 77 runs. He has 163 runs in 4 games with 2 half-centuries. Sibley has 380 runs in 4 games with 2 centuries. Ryan Patel will come in at number three. Patel scored 67 runs in the last game.
Ollie Pope will come in the middle with Dan Lawrence, Jamie Smith, and Adam Thomas. Pope has 340 runs with a century and 2 half-centuries. Lawrence scored 13 runs in the last game. But he has 335 runs in 6 innings with 2 centuries. All eyes will be on Jamie Smith, who is Surrey’s leading run-scorer with 409 runs in 6 innings. He has scored 2 centuries so far. Thomas played his first game of the season with a century.
Jordan Clark will lead the bowling attack with Sean Abbott, Matthew Fisher, and Reece Topley. Clark is their leading wicket-taker with 12 wickets in 5 innings. He picked up 8 wickets in the last game. Fisher took 6 wickets in the last game to take his wicket tally to 11.
Key Players: Jamie Smith, Dominic Sibley, Jordan Clark.
Rory Burns (c), Dominic Sibley, Jamie Smith (wk), Ollie Pope, Dan Lawrence, Ryan Patel, Adam Thomas, Jordan Clark, Sean Abbott, Matthew Fisher, Reece Topley.
Adam Thomas, Ryan Patel, Rory Burns, Dominic Sibley, Jordan Clark, Sean Abbott, Jamie Smith, Daniel Worrall, Gus Atkinson, Dan Lawrence, Reece Topley, Ollie Pope
The weather in Nottingham is expected to be cold and clean on match day, with temperatures ranging from 5 to 18 degrees Celsius. Winds will blow from the southeast at 6-10 km/h. The rain is expected to play a spoilsport on day 2. It is a bowling-friendly pitch. 66 wickets have fallen in the 7 innings played at this venue in 2 games.
Pitch Condition
BalancedBatting Conditions
Moderate ScoringPace Bowling
SwingSpin Bowling
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The match will be played at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, from 8th May and will start at 3:30 pm IST. The average first innings score is 327, 16 more than the second innings. But it drops to 160 in the last innings. Nottinghamshire haven’t lost a game here since May 2024 (13 games).
Trent Bridge has always seen successful chases. In the last seven wins registered here, the team batting second has won on 5 occasions. Even Notts have 3 of their last 5 wins at Trent Bridge while chasing the target. The team winning the toss should bowl first.
Joe Clarke and Ben Slater are in great form. The duo has hit 128 boundaries while scoring 1010 runs together. With 2 centuries and 7 half-centuries among them, the game will be focused on their success. But Surrey have the toughest batting order. All of their top 7 batters have scored at least a century each. It will be a batting affair.
We predict that the match will end in a draw.
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