Surrey face spin onslaught

Spinners Simon Kerrigan and Stephen Parry will aim to bowl Lancashire to a last-day victory after forcing Surrey to follow on at the Kia Oval.

The slow left-armers took five first-innings wickets between them as Surrey were bowled out for 319 in reply to Lancashire’s 470.

In Surrey’s second innings, Rory Burns, having added 20 to his firstinnings 91, had just cut Kerrigan for four when he was caught behind pushing forward defensively. Mark Stoneman and Scott Borthwick saw Surrey through to the close.

Lancashire had to settle for a draw in their opening Specsavers County Championship Division One match against Essex, but this time they will expect to finish the job on a pitch starting to take turn.

Parry took three for 31 in 24.2 overs first time around, taking the last two Surrey wickets in successive balls to leave them an agonising two runs short of avoiding the follow-on.

Gareth Batty, who had batted well to reach 33 in a fighting ninthwicket stand of 57 with Tom Curran (33 not out), drove straight to midoff before Mark Footitt was lbw pushing defensively at his first ball.

Kerrigan, who did much to initiate a Surrey slide from 211 for two, took two for 15 in a 21-over spell – 11 of which were maidens.

He and Parry rendered the Surrey middle order almost strokeless for most of the afternoon, after Parry had seen Kumar Sangakkara chip his first ball of the day tamely to short midwicket to go for 46, just after being dropped off Kerrigan.

Sangakkara and Burns had looked in little trouble against the seamers before Kyle Jarvis had Burns caught behind to break their third-wicket stand of 99.