Surrey close in on title with win over Durham

Vitality County Championship Division One, Kia Oval (day three)

Durham 262 & 177: Gay 48; Worrall 4-34, S Curran 4-23

Surrey 415: Patel 134 & 25-0

Surrey (23 pts) hit Durham (4 pts) by 10 wickets

Match scorecard

Surrey are closing successful connected a 3rd successive County Championship title aft cruising to a 10-wicket triumph complete Durham pinch a time to spare astatine The Oval.

Durham, who began nan 3rd time trailing by 152, ne'er recovered aft losing 2 wickets successful nan first complete to Dan Worrall.

Worrall and Sam Curran, successful only his 2nd Championship quality of nan season, each took 4 wickets arsenic Durham were dismissed for 177 successful their 2nd innings pinch only Emilio Gay (48) offering prolonged resistance.

That near Surrey needing conscionable 25 to complete their eighth triumph of nan run and skipper Rory Burns and Dom Sibley knocked disconnected nan target successful 5 overs.

It was their sixth triumph astatine The Oval this play pinch only Somerset, who drew successful April, denying them a cleanable expanse connected location turf.

Surrey picked up 23 points which took them onto 221, 31 clear of Somerset pinch their lucifer astatine Old Trafford still successful nan balance.

Surrey look Essex astatine Chelmsford successful nan last information pinch Somerset hosting Hampshire.

The tempo was group successful nan first complete erstwhile Worrall made a double breakthrough. Dan Hogg mislaid his limb stump and Ben McKinney was beaten by a good delivery.

Durham had mislaid 3 wickets successful first half hr erstwhile Jordan Clark bowled Alex Lees.

David Bedingham only sewage half-forward to Curran’s sixth shot and was lbw while Ollie Robinson was besides beaten by precocious inswing and mislaid his disconnected stump to time off Durham’s innings successful disarray astatine 74-6.

Gay, making his Durham debut up of his imperishable move from Northamptonshire this winter, shaped up good and added 46 pinch Bas De Leede either broadside of luncheon to springiness Durham hope.

But Worrall returned astatine nan pavilion extremity to region Gay earlier different Curran inswinger accounted for De Leede. Tom Lawes produced a good transportation to unit James Minto to separator to keeper Ben Foakes.

Curran vanished things disconnected pinch different booming inswinger that was measurement excessively bully for Chemar Holder earlier Surrey eased to their mini target.