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Surrey have won the toss and will bowl – Noah Thain plays, on the back 0f, I learnt today, a hundred in the second team. Atkinson t0 spruce up Surrey’s b0wling.
Football for Surrey, slip catches for Essex here at The Oval. A groundsman with a red bucket and a fork does sporadic aerating. The seats are filling up on the top layer of the Mickey Stewart pavilion, they’re brave, its in full shade.