Surrey vs Nottinghamshire, County Championship Divison One, Today Match Prediction 10 July 2023

sur vs not Match Prediction & Analysis

County Division 1 league is coming to the crucial phase with teams having settled down and looking for crucial points to move to the top of the points table. Surrey are having a good season and their unbeaten streak came to an end last match with their loss against Lancashire by 123 runs. They will hope to come back to winning ways in this match. Nottinghamshire are not struggling at the bottom half of the table and they too lost their previous match against Somerset by 399 runs. We expect the match to be a hard tough fight between two quality teams.

TEAMS PREVIEW

Surrey Preview

Surrey top batters got starts but failed to convert it into a big score and were struggling at 107/5 in the first innings. Will Jacks (64 runs) and Sam Curran (52 runs) lead their fightback but soon they stumbled to 230/9. Last wicket pair of Sean Abbott (87 runs) and Daniel Worrell 951 runs) made a brilliant 130-run partnership to give them a valiant 86-run lead. Their batting unit was bundled out for 84 runs in the steep chase of 207 runs in the second innings. 

Their bowlers bundled out the opposition for 274 & 293 in the 2 innings. Sean Abbott (4/71 & 2/36) and Jordan Clark (4/36 & 2/53) picked up 6 wickets each in the match. Sam Curran and Daniel Worell picked up 3 wickets each in the match. Spinners Tom Lawes chipped in with a wicket each in the innings while Will Jacks provided good support to him.

Key players: Sean Abbott, Sam Curran, Will Jacks.

Surrey Predicted Playing XI:

Rory Burns (c), Dominic Sibley, Tom Latham, Jamie Smith, Ben Foakes (wk), Will Jacks, Sam Curran, Jordan Clark, Sean Abbott, Tom Lawes, Daniel Worrall

Nottinghamshire Preview

Nottinghamshire batters were dismissed for just 186 & 92 runs in the two innings. Ben Slater played a fighting knock of 70 runs in the first innings. Steve Mullaney, Montgomery, and Tom Moores played small cameos of 20+ & 30+ runs in the match. Their batters need to step up and play more sensibly in this match.

Their bowlers bundled out the opposition for 163 runs but gave 514/8 in the second innings. Ben Hutton`s spell of 5/70 in the first innings helped to bowl out the opposition. Dane Patterson and Mathew Carter picked up 3 wickets each in the match. Lyndon James, Jake Ball, and Steve Mullaney will support them in the middle.

Key players: Steve Mullaney, Ben Slater, Ben Hutton

Nottinghamshire Predicted Playing XI:

Ben Slater, Haseeb Hameed, Matthew Montgomery, Joe Clarke, Lyndon James, Steven Mullaney (c), Tom Moores (wk), Matthew Carter, Brett Hutton, Jake Ball, Dane Paterson

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

Kennington Oval is a good pitch with good balance between the bat and ball with ball having a superior hand as the match progresses. We expect the weather to be bright and sunny with some intermittent rains during the match.

Venue Details

We expect the average scores in this pitch to be between 300-350 runs in the first innings. The pitch will be very good to bat on days 2 & 3 especially and will be toughest to bat on Day 5.

Toss: To Bat

Both captains will look to bat first on this pitch as chasing becomes very difficult in the fourth innings.