WATCH, County । Surrey breaks own record to post highest team total in Championship history

The visiting skipper Alex Lees won the toss and asked Surrey to bat first; batting first, the star opener Dominic Sibley stood firmly in the middle and left Durham’s bowling attack clueless and frustrated. He smashed an outstanding triple-century, scoring 305 runs off 475 balls, with 29 fours and two sixes. Apart from Sibley’s triple ton, Sam Curran, Dan Lawrence, and Will Jacks also played impressive century knocks of 108, 178, and 119 runs, respectively. Skipper and opener Rory Burn also contributed with 55 runs off 74 balls, with 12 fours. Thanks to these brilliant performances, Surrey piled a mammoth total of 820/9 before declaring their first innings. Will Rhodes scalped 3 wickets for Durham in the first innings, alongside 2 wickets picked by Daniel Hogg. Besides these two, Ben Raine, James Neesham, George Drissell, and Collin Ackermann also bagged a wicket each for their side.

The historic moment came on the second day of the game, when Will Jacks smashed a four towards the long-on region off Daniel Hogg on the first ball of the 162nd over. With this boundary, Surrey surpassed the record of all-time highest team total in the history of the championship and their history of 180 years.

Speaking of the current action of the game between Surrey and Durham, the Alex Lees-led visitors scored 269/4 in 83.5 overs at the time of filling this. Skipper Alex Lees and middle-order batter Graham Clark are there in the middle. Lees is batting at an individual score of 125 runs, alongside Clark batting on 1 run. Matthew Fisher has scalped 2 wickets for his side so far, alongside a wicket each claimed by Daniel Worrall and Sam Curran.