da spicy bet： Gloucestershire Gladiators made light work of slaying the Surrey Lions towin a one-sided Friends Provident t20 South Group clash by 10 wickets
Cricinfo staff08-Jun-2010
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Surrey’s Andrew Symonds sits dejected on the bench as his side slid to another defeat•PA Photos
Gloucestershire Gladiators made light work of slaying the Surrey Lions towin a one-sided Friends Provident t20 South Group clash by 10 wickets and with10.1 overs to spare.Surrey capitulated for 97 in front of a disappointing crowd of 4,900 asGloucestershire’s seven-man attack made the most of a lively Oval pitch whichinitially assisted the seamers. Surrey were dismissed with 11 balls of their 20-over allocation still remaining.Batting first after losing the toss, Surrey lost half their side for 17 runs inthe space of 34 balls – including big-name signings Andrew Symonds for 1 andWorld Cup-winning Younis Khan for 2 – and the innings barely improvedthereafter.Opener Rory Hamilton-Brown and last man Jade Dernbach were the only batsmen tohit boundaries for Surrey, three men were run out, while Matt Spriegel andHamilton-Brown were the sole players to make it into double figures in terms ofballs faced.Surrey’s trouble began as early as the seventh delivery when Steven Daviesrocked back to pull the first delivery of the night from Kiwi Ian Butler intothe hands of William Porterfield at deep mid-wicket. That gave Butler his first wicket, and he finished with an excellent return ofthree for eight.Mark Ramprakash edged to wicketkeeper Steve Snell in the next over, thenSymonds marked his home debut by getting off the mark with a single only toslice the next delivery off a thick outside edge to Vikram Banerjee at thirdman.Butler accounted for Khan after only four deliveries with a middle-stump yorkerand Usman Afzaal went to the first run out following a mix-up withHamilton-Brown and after some athletic work backing up the initial throw by AlexGidman that made it 17 for 5.Hamilton-Brown, with six boundaries in his 39-ball top score of 41, joinedforces with Spriegel to add 44 for the sixth wicket in five overs. But Hamilton-Brown’s demise, run out by a direct hit from mid-on by HamishMarshall, sparked a further collapse.Chris Schofield lost his middle stump when driving loosely at JamesFranklin, Andre Nel clipped a return catch to spinner Banerjee, then ChrisTremlett omitted to ground his bat when running a single to James Franklinat short fine leg.Home No. 11 Dernbach became Surrey’s third batsman to reach double figuresby heaving two fours in his nine-ball cameo of 12, but one slog too many lefthis stumps re-arranged and Spriegel high and dry, unbeaten on 25 from 31 ballsbut without a four.Gloucestershire’s openers Porterfield and Franklin made light work of adispirited home attack to canter home to victory with more than half their oversremaining.Porterfield cut the first six of the night over deep backward point off thebowling of Nel on his way to an unbeaten 47 from 31 balls, while Franklin kepthim company with a hard-hit 41 from 29 balls which contained six fours.To make matters even worse for the beleaguered Surrey, they left the field to atirade of booing from their own supporters as the game finished withoutfloodlights being required.