Surrey 296 for six (Sibley 105, Patel 72, Geddes 61) beat Leicestershire 279 (Budinger 70, Scriven 55, Metal 3-48) by 17 runs
All-rounders Ian Holland, with 2 for 50, and Scriven, with 2 for 51, have been the choose of the Foxes bowlers, with 19-year-old seamer Sam Wooden taking 1 for 34 on his Checklist A debut.
If the Foxes completed properly with the ball, the beginning offered by Sibley and Patel with the bat was comfortably Surrey’s better of the season.
Requested to bat first on an overcast morning, Surrey have been 51 with out loss from 10 overs and have been 125 for nothing by midway, Sibley having gone to fifty from 59 balls with Patel reaching his from 72.
Patel suffered an unfortunate dismissal. Shaping to hook the tall Wooden, he gave the impression to be hit on the shoulder earlier than the ball deflected off his helmet on to the stumps.
Geddes maintained Surrey’s constructive begin. Dropped by Chris Wright at wonderful leg on 35 off Liam Trevaskis, he cashed in to the tune of 26 extra runs earlier than falling to a catch at deep midwicket off Roman Walker.
Sibley had gone to his hundred from 115 balls within the forty second over along with his eleventh 4 however quickly miscued to long-off, giving Scriven wickets in consecutive overs after Rory Burns was bowled sweeping.
Holland then had Josh Blake caught at backward level and 19-year-old Surrey debutant Ollie Sykes at long-on, a fifth wicket to fall in seven overs with Surrey slipping from 249 for 1 to 286 to six.
The Foxes‘ chase suffered a double stumble to depart them 49 for two from 10 after Holland picked out deep backward sq. off James Taylor and Lewis Hill was caught behind off Conor McKerr.
Ajinkya Rahane had an escape when he was spilled at cowl on 4 off McKerr, which was starting to seem like an costly drop by Metal as he and Budinger started to speed up, the latter passing fifty for the fourth time in 5 innings, the run together with 120 in opposition to Essex at Chelmsford. However Rahane might make solely 27 earlier than he was caught at midwicket off Patel, the ball maybe sticking within the pitch a little bit.
Budinger and Peter Handscomb shared a match-winning 113-run partnership in opposition to Essex on this floor final 12 months however might add solely 48 this time earlier than Budinger holed out to deep midwicket.
It felt like a major second at 142 for 4 within the twenty sixth, one which was amplified two overs later as Handscomb hit straight to cowl, each batters falling to Metal.
Trevaskis was bowled by left-arm spinner Yousef Majid and Cox fell leg-before to McKerr. Scriven’s 45-run eighth-wicket stand with Wooden, stumped off Metal for 22, saved the competition alive, Scriven hitting two sixes, however 20 off Taylor within the final over was at all times unlikely and the match ended with Scriven falling to a shocking catch by Patel at backward level as Leicestershire have been all out for 279.
With three wins from 5, qualification for the knock-out levels remains to be attainable, though Group B leaders Warwickshire and Glamorgan each have 5 wins from 5.
