Surrey haven’t made the best of starts to the cricket season. In fact, until a week ago they hadn’t won a single game in any competition, and had been beaten by Ireland in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy (if you don’t follow the game it might seem odd that an English county should play a whole country – and be strong favourites to win – but that’s cricket). Then they won a game in the Totesport League Division One (what used to be called the Sunday League).
This week they have been playing in the County Championship against Kent, who were top of the table at the beginning of the week. Surrey had a terrible start, losing two wickets for just one run, and it looked as if they were heading for another defeat. It was not to be, and they recovered to score 479, forced Kent to follow-on, and won fairly easily. Tough luck on Robert Key, who scored 199 for Kent but to no avail.
Remarkably, Surrey are now 3rd in the table, just 5 points off the lead, so perhaps this season isn’t going to be too bad after all.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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