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A round-up of the Dhaka Premier Division matches on December 20, 2014

ESPNcricinfo staff20-Dec-2014Old DOHS Sporting Club bowed out of the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League with an 88-run defeat at the hands of Partex Sporting Club. The result means that winner of the Partex-Kalabagan Krira Chakra match, the last of the relegation league scheduled on December 22, will determine who will survive at the top division next season.Batting first, Partex were propped up by captain Rajin Saleh’s 107 and Jony Talukdar’s 93. The pair added 132 runs for the second wicket, after which Rajin reached his third List-A century. Saleh Ahmed Shawon took three wickets.Old DOHS were never in contention in the steep chase, having lost the previous 12 games in a row. They were bowled out for 181 in 47.2 overs, with Raihanuddin top scoring with 44 batting at No 8. Nuruzzaman Masum and Shafiul Alam took three wickets each.

ScorecardJordan Silk put Tasmania on the path towards victory in Hobart, where they finished the third day needing only 46 more runs with eight wickets in hand. Set 200 for victory after Victoria were dismissed for 173 in their second innings, Tasmania went to stumps at 2 for 154 with Silk on 81 and Jonathan Wells on 17.Tasmania had lost Ed Cowan for 13 and Alex Doolan for 38 but Silk anchored the chase well after the Tasmania bowlers put in a team effort to keep Victoria from setting too tough a target. Victoria struggled to 4 for 34 before Daniel Christian (46) led a recovery that pushed the total up to 200.The five main Tasmania bowlers – Andrew Fekete, Sam Rainbird, Hamish Kingston, Xavier Doherty and Evan Gulbis – picked up two wickets apiece. The Tigers had started the day at 9 for 241 in their first innings and added 12 more before the last wicket fell, denying them a first-innings lead.

New Zealand offspinner Jeetan Patel rocked Yorkshire with a brilliant hat-trick as Warwickshire stalled their advance to the quarter-finals of the NatWest Blast by winning with two balls to spare.

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ScorecardJeetan Patel’s hat-trick proved in a victorious cause•Getty ImagesNew Zealand offspinner Jeetan Patel rocked Yorkshire with a brilliant hat-trick as Warwickshire stalled their advance to the quarter-finals of the NatWest Blast by winning with two balls to spare.Laurie Evans kept the Bears’ chance of finishing in the top four places in the North Division alive with a superb unbeaten 69 off 43 balls that included one enormous six, driven on to the roof of the Football Stand from the off-spin of Azeem Rafiq with such power that it bounced up and over the apex.Patel dismissed Kane Williamson, Andrew Gale and Adam Lyth with consecutive deliveries in his second over, becoming the fourth Warwickshire’s bowler to achieve a T20 hat-trick.James Anyon, Imran Tahir and Keith Barker did it, Barker against Yorkshire at Edgbaston in 2010. There have been 16 hat-tricks in English domestic T20 and five of them involve one or other of these sides, Yorkshire also finding themselves on the wrong end of one against Leicestershire at Grace Road in 2007, when Jeremy Snape did the honours.What was all the more impressive about Patel’s feat was that they were all what you might call authentic dismissals, with no miscued slogs. Williamson was leg before and both Gale and Lyth were bowled off stump, beaten playing back to balls that spun. Combined with the skilful removal of Alex Lees, lured down the pitch and stumped in his first over, they gave Patel career-best T20 figures of 4 for 19.The triple calamity left Yorkshire reeling at 72 for 5 in the ninth over after winning the toss but they recovered to post a competitive score after Tim Bresnan and Adil Rashid combined to add 68 runs from 44 balls in an undefeated seventh-wicket partnership.Bresnan hit 45 from 36 balls, of which nine runs came after he was dropped by John Webb at deep-backward point in the last over of the innings, bowled by the former Yorkshire seamer Oliver Hannon-Dalby, which was his only chance. Adil Rashid scored 29 from 20 deliveries.It was good stuff from a Yorkshire perspective but hardly edge-of-your-seat viewing. There were 10 fours in the Bresnan-Rashid partnership but only five in 13 and a half overs of the Yorkshire innings before they got going, and not one six.It was not the kind of cricket to excite the casual fan hoping to be spectacularly entertained and that has been the verdict after too many matches, and not only this season. The razzmatazz marketing that many counties deliver superbly is in danger of appearing to be for a product that does not exist.Perhaps the record for Yorkshire of Aaron Finch says rather a lot. The Australian big-hitter, whose arrival prompted Yorkshire’s publicity machine to suggest nearby residents should board up their windows and spectators should equip themselves with hard hats, enjoyed one big night when he hit 88 against Lancashire at Old Trafford but has otherwise shown scarcely a glimpse of the firepower that brought him his world record 156 against England last year.His other eight innings have yielded 79 runs in total and his latest effort began with two respectful leaves against Rikki Clarke, who then took the pace off a ball to have him caught at mid-off.At least on this occasion there was Evans to come up with some old-fashioned T20 gusto in what turned out to be the match-winning performance, with a moment or two of modern innovation too in the shape of a scoop for six off Ryan Sidebottom from the last ball of the 19th over after a run of five fours in eight balls against Rich Pyrah and the former England left-armer that finally swung a tight contest in Warwickshire’s favour.Patel, typically modest, played down his own contribution afterwards. “It was important to get Kane because he can do such damage and the balls that bowled Gale and Lyth were decent balls, hitting off stump, so some would say it was good bowling but sometimes you get a bit of luck,” he said.”It was my first hat-trick but I’m not sure it affected the game that much beyond meaning they got 140 instead of 150. What got us across the line really was those partnerships with Rikki Clarke and Ateeq Javid at the end and a fantastic innings from Laurie, who is a guy with a lot of skills who can hit the ball to different parts of the park, and that makes it very hard for the opposition to defend.”

ScorecardJames Hildreth made a timely hundred to ease Somerset’s relegation fears•Getty Images

Sometimes in late season you can become so obsessed with the intricacies of promotion and relegation – how this bonus point lost will affect this bonus point gained – that something dreamily proficient can almost pass you by. James Hildreth’s unbeaten hundred at Trent Bridge felt like that.Hildreth batted beautifully, scoring at roughly a run a ball for his entire innings, and soothed talk of a possible Somerset relegation, yet did it in a manner which made no grand statement, a west country lad protecting their Division One status in understated fashion. Like many Somerset batsmen this season, he has been short of his best, but here was a reminder of his mellifluous talent.Given a Derbyshire win 20 miles or so down the A52, the side that loses at Trent Bridge could be relegated. If that sounds unlikely now thanks to Derbyshire’s struggles, it was not the case in early afternoon. Nottinghamshire’s total of more than 400 had left them feeling comfortable. Attention was very much on Somerset.Notepads were grabbed, calculations hastily scribbled. Finally, after many crossings out, everybody concurred: Derbyshire would have to manage one more batting point than Somerset as well as beating Warwickshire. Somerset would have to lose. Given that scenario, Somerset would be relegated.Somerset were 11 for 2 in as many overs when Hildreth came to the crease – Marcus Trescothick lbw to a decent delivery from Harry Gurney, Chris Jones caught at the wicket off Luke Fletcher. They seemed destined for an afternoon of pain. Pessimistic talk abounded about how they would be relieved just to avoid the follow-on and collect a couple of batting bonus points to put Derbyshire under pressure.It is doubtful that Hildreth busied himself with working out the Division One table. He has had a largely unproductive season and, even though he has nearly 11,000 Somerset runs to his name, England have stopped looking. But in most situations he bats agreeably and then when the day is done he often slopes modestly away.Hildreth dealt with Notts’ attack in wristy fashion from the outset, reminding onlookers that his talents deserve this stage. He made his move just before tea: three boundaries in an over by Paul Franks, repeated by Nick Compton off Brett Hutton in the next over.Compton also played with certainty in a third-wicket stand that had swollen to 172 in 33 overs when bad light brought a premature end to a day restricted to 51.5 overs. Considering the unsettled weather, the odds on a draw that would automatically spare both sides from the drop are shortening – with Tony Pigott, the ECB pitch inspector, on hand to ensure there is no hint of collusion.Nobody much believes the national selector, Geoff Miller, when he says the door is not closed on Compton – it feels made of foot-thick English oak, with sentries stood above it with vats of boiling oil – but Compton is within range of 1000 Championship runs for the season nonetheless. He reached his 50 with an emphatic straight six off the left-arm spin of Samit Patel.Such meagre rewards were less than Notts must have expected after vigorous new-ball spells from Gurney and Fletcher. Charles Dickens, who liked names to give a clue to his characters would have named the Notts pace attack the other way round. Harry Gurney would have been the big, broad-beamed fast bowler, whilst Luke Fletcher would have been the slim whip of a lad. But we’re not in Dickens country – more DH Lawrence around here.As for Hildreth, in a Dickens novel, he would have been a bank clerk, unassuming , perhaps ill-treated at times, never entirely achieving the fortune he deserved, but with enough talent to ensure that his end was a happy one.

Match facts

August 21-25, The Oval
Start time 1100 (1000 GMT)Chris Tremlett has a “good chance” of coming back into the side for a first Test appearance since January 2012•Getty Images

Big Picture

Not since 1981 have England arrived at The Oval for the last Test of an Ashes summer with the series already won. The possibility that lies tantalisingly before them is even rarer. Never before have Australia been beaten 4-0 by England and only once have they lost by such a wide margin (the 5-1 home defeat in 1978-79, when Packer was a dirty word). After a demoralising six weeks, when Australia have regularly misplaced their key moments, they will have to find extra reserves if they not to be swept away by an English tide.Metaphor aside, Australia have again delved into their squad to supplement an ever-changing cast, with James Faulkner called on to make his Test debut. Only Mathew Wade of the original 16-man party has not been utilised and, with the additions of Ashton Agar and Steven Smith, Australia will have used 17 different players over the course of the series – not to mention a batting order that has changed with every Test. England, by contrast, have been their usual, methodical selves and only an injury to Tim Bresnan will force them to alter the team for the first time since Steven Finn was dropped for the second Test at Lord’s. It is not only the scorelines that have changed in Ashes cricket.It may not be the cauldron of expectation experienced in 2005 and 2009, then, but The Oval has a recent record of producing memorable finales. Despite England’s supremacy, this series has at times brought to mind the joke from about a conversation between two elderly women at a resort in the Catskill mountains: “One of them says, ‘Boy, the food in this place is terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know, and such small portions.'” There has been a shortfall in quality on both sides – only Ian Bell, Graeme Swann and Ryan Harris can claim to have had outstanding series – but the Investec Ashes continues to serve up irresistible moments.

Form guide

England: WDWWW
Australia: LDLLL

Players to watch

Jonny Bairstow has been attempting to nail down a spot in England’s Test side for over a year now but, despite frequent encouraging episodes, the hammer keeps descending at a crooked angle. His 67 at Lord’s was crucial in helping to right England’s first innings and 203 runs at 29.00 in the series puts him above both Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott but doubts about his technique and temperament persist. England have not had a century from their No. 6 batsman since Eoin Morgan in 2010 but it feels like Bairstow needs a three-figure score to be sure of his place this winter.When you have backers like Shane Warne in your corner, big things are expected and James Faulkner has provided plenty of evidence of his talent since his debut for Tasmania as an 18-year-old. Now 23, Faulkner averages 30.31 with the bat and 22.87 with the ball in first-class cricket and his feisty, competitive spirit has been to the fore in a handful of limited-overs appearances for his country. That aside, Australia may hope the fact Faulkner hails from Launceston, hometown of Ricky Ponting, is enough to make England edgy.

Team news

Alastair Cook said that Chris Tremlett has a “good chance” of coming back into the side for a first Test appearance since January 2012. Bresnan’s back injury means a space has opened up in the attack and Tremlett will be up against Chris Woakes – more of a like-for-like replacement for the all-round talents of Bresnan – and Finn. Giving Simon Kerrigan a debut alongside Graeme Swann remains an outside possibility, though England have not played two spinners at home since Cardiff 2009.England (probable) 1 Alastair Cook (capt), 2 Joe Root, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Ian Bell, 6 Jonny Bairstow, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 Chris Tremlett 11 James AndersonAustralia have announced their XI in advance, with Faulkner set to make his debut and Mitchell Starc returning. Usman Khawaja and Jackson Bird drop out and, with allrounder Faulkner coming in at No. 7, Australia will rejig their batting order again. After two innings at No. 6 (and one at No. 4), Shane Watson moves back up the order to first drop, a position that has caused Australia a deal of grief in recent times, while Brad Haddin is now in the top six, above a lengthy, if doughty, tail.Australia 1 Chris Rogers, 2 David Warner, 3 Shane Watson, 4 Michael Clarke (capt), 5 Steven Smith, 6 Brad Haddin (wk), 7 James Faulkner, 8 Peter Siddle, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Ryan Harris, 11 Nathan Lyon

Pitch and conditions

The Oval has been on the slow side and more liable to turn in recent years but, although the pitch for the fifth Test is dry, there is an expectation that it will be quicker and bouncier than usual. The weather is forecast to be warm, although there is the possibility of showers interrupting a couple of day’s play.

Stats and trivia

• England have only lost six times to Australia at The Oval, against 16 wins, making it their most successful home ground.
• The last time Australia went two consecutive series without winning a Test was in 1986.
• After 98 and 96 Test matches respectively, the batting records of Kevin Pietersen and Alastair Cook are separated by 33 runs and 0.21 in average. Pietersen is marginally ahead of his captain but Cook has two more centuries (25 to 23).
• James Faulkner will become the 435th player to represent Australia in Tests.

Quotes

“I think it would be very special to win the Ashes 4-0. That is what our motivation is as a side and we are hopefully going to pick the right side – the side that we think can win this Test match.”
“He is an extra option to help us take 20 wickets but it is the overall package that James Faulkner brings. His toughness and performances of late in whatever format and the fact that he is not just a bowler. He can make some very handy runs for us.”

Middlesex needed just 80 minutes to wrap up a ten-wicket win and condemn Sussex to their first defeat of the season in the County Championship.

20-Jul-2013
ScorecardIt was fitting that Sam Robson was not out as Middlesex claimed victory•Getty Images

Middlesex needed just 80 minutes to wrap up a ten-wicket win and condemn Sussex to their first defeat of the season in the County Championship. Luke Wright was last out for 161 as Sussex were dismissed for 310 in their second innings and the Middlesex openers knocked off their target of 44 in nine overs at Hove.Sussex led by just 21 runs overnight with Wright on 151 but Middlesex made inroads as soon as they took the second new ball. Tim Murtagh’s first delivery with it made the breakthrough when Chris Jordan edged a lifter to wicketkeeper John Simpson.Sussex lost their eighth wicket in the next over when Steve Magoffin wafted outside off stump on nought and Simpson again did the honours to reward Corey Collymore’s excellent line.James Anyon briefly gave Wright some support as the ninth wicket pair added a further 15 but Murtagh struck again with the score on 308 when Anyon was caught behind off another ball which lifted sharply off a length to give Simpson his eighth catch of the game.With only last man Monty Panesar for company, Wright tried to hit out but only succeeded in finding Neil Dexter on the long off boundary, having added ten runs to his overnight score. Wright’s 161 came off 185 balls with 24 boundaries and a six.Murtagh and Collymore both picked up three wickets while Steve Finn, deemed surplus to requirements by England at Lord’s, was not required to bowl today.Middlesex needed 44 to seal their fourth win of the season and Dawid Malan finished unbeaten on 19 and Sam Robson, whose first-innings 166 had done so much to set up their victory, was 18 not out.

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O Corinthians anunciou na tarde desta segunda-feira o volante Júnior Urso. O jogador de 29 anos que se desligou do Guangzhou R&F, da China, assinou com o Timão por três temporadas após ser aprovado nos exames médicos. Em suas primeiras palavras como jogador do clube, Urso revelou um passado corintiano e se emocionou com as lembranças da infância.

– É até difícil falar sobre o Corinthians. Quando eu era pequeno, chorava quando o Corinthians não ganhava. As pessoas falavam ‘deixa de ser bobo, é só um jogo’, mas sempre senti o Corinthians como algo diferente na minha vida – disse Júnior Urso, em entrevista divulgada pelo Corinthians.

– O Corinthians marcou a minha vida não só pelos títulos, mas também pelos jogadores que eu me identificava e que gostava muito. Marcelinho Carioca e Rincón foram alguns deles – completou o jogador, emocionado.

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Júnior Urso, que no Brasil teve seu maior momento de destaque pelo Atlético-MG em 2016, relembrou até passagens específicas da época de torcedor do Corinthians e disse que este é o momento mais feliz de sua carreira.

-Um momento que me marcou demais como torcedor e que me fez enxergar o tamanho do amor que tenho pelo Corinthians foi um gol que o Fábio Baiano fez. Ele tava lesionado, não tinha como fazer mais alterações, e ele acertou um chute e fez um golaço. Mesmo mancando, ele continuou no jogo. Aquilo ali mostrou pra mim o que era o Corinthians realmente. Esse espírito de luta e garra que me faz ser corintiano, que faz o meu coração ser preto e branco. Com certeza este é o momento mais feliz da minha carreira – afirmou.

A primeira declaração dele é de arrepiar! #CorinthianoMaloqueiroeSofredor pic.twitter.com/4GwJ3Nqcuj

— Corinthians (@Corinthians) 4 de fevereiro de 2019

O volante é o 10º reforço do Corinthians para a temporada 2019. O clube já contratou o lateral-direito Michel Macedo, o zagueiro Manoel, o volante Richard, o meio-campista Ramiro, o meia Sornoza, e os atacantes Gustavo Mosquito, André Luis, Vagner Love e Mauro Boselli.

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A round-up of matches played in Plunket Shield 2012-13

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Feb-2013
ScorecardHalf-centuries by Grant Elliott, Michael Papps, Harry Boam and Mark Gillespie were in vain as Wellington lost to Canterbury by 20 runs in a closely fought Plunket Shield match in Wellington on Sunday.The high-scoring match saw many great knocks, beginning with Peter Fulton’s 94 for Canterbury on the first day of the match. Canterbury, who chose to bat, managed to put on a substantial score in quick time, thanks to Fulton and contributions from George Worker and Brent Findlay.Wellington showed their batting prowess too, amassing 356 runs and gaining a slender 27-run lead in the space of just a day. Captain Stephen Murdoch scored a steady century while wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi hit a quick-fire 95, which included nine fours and two sixes.While Wellington would have hoped to keep Canterbury in check, opener George Worker had other ideas. Worker, who scored 107 off 203 balls, was involved in two important partnerships with opener Peter Fulton and No. 3 batsman Shanan Stewart that helped Canterbury erase the deficit and then race away to a big lead. Two aggressive half-centuries by Tom Latham and Ronnie Hira helped Canterbury reach 410 for seven.Set a target of 383 to win, the home side, were struggling at 159 for five before a century-run stand between Grant Elliott and Harry Boam revived Wellington’s chances. Elliott and Boam’s dismissals left Wellington staring at defeat, before a fighting half-century from fast bowler Mark Gillespie brought them tantalizingly close to a win. Gillespie added 36 runs for the last wicket with No. 11 batsman Tipene Friday, who stuck around for 23 balls before McCone bowled Gillespie for 63. The Wellington pacer’s blistering knock included three fours and five sixes.
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Table-toppers Central Districts won their fourth game of the Plunket Shield, coming from behind to beat Auckland at the Eden Park No.2 ground. Asked to bat, CD folded for 233 on the first day. They were in danger of getting bowled out for under 200 but tail-enders Tarun Nethula and Kyle Jarvis, who was the second-highest run-getter with 45, put together a last-wicket stand of 57. Left-arm seamer Michael Bates picked up four wickets. Craig Cachopa led Auckland’s response with 145, giving them a lead of 115, even though seamer Bevan Small picked up a five-for.In their second innings, CD came back strongly. Openers Jamie How (124) and Jeet Raval (77) added 173, and Carl Cachopa made 53. Wicketkeeper Kruger van Wyk and Doug Bracewell, too, hit half-centuries in their stand of 126 that helped CD reach 457 for 7, upon which they declared, setting Auckland 343 to win during the final day. CD just required 40 overs to bowl their opponents out with Nethula, the legspinner, bagging six wickets and triggering a collapse in which Auckland lost eight wickets for 81 runs. Auckland were bowled out for 151, slipping to their third defeat this first-class season.
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Otago won their third game of the Plunket Shield and are now in second place in the points table, after beating Northern Districts at the Queenstown Events centre. Upon choosing to field first, Otago dismissed ND for 217 in the first innings with fast bowler Ian Butler claiming 6 for 65. Daryl Mitchell and Ish Sodhi struck half-centuries but weren’t able to prevent their team from being bowled out for a below-par score. Hamish Rutherford, who has won a call-up to the New Zealand squad for the home series against England, scored more than half of Otago’s runs in the response, smashing 162 to give his team a 102-run lead. He scored at a fair clip, too, hitting 25 fours and a six in his 187-ball knock.Butler was again among the wickets and completed 10 wickets for the match in the second innings, grabbing 4 for 46 and helping bowl out ND for 227. ND were going strong at 161 for 3 but lost three wickets for just one run and were only able to gain a lead of 125. Butler was helped by the medium-pace of Sam Wells, who picked up three wickets, while Neil Wagner chipped in with two. Otago were keen to finish the game off the third day itself, and took just 26.4 overs in their chase to achieve their task. Opener Aaron Redmond made an unbeaten half-century, as his team won by eight wickets.

أكد مصدر بالنادي الأهلي على سعى إدارة النشاط الرياضي لعقد جلسة مع قطاع الكرة الطائرة من أجل إعادة هيكلته خلال الفترة المقبلة استعدادًا للموسم الجديد.

وكان فريق السيدات بالأهلي قد خسر لقب كأس مصر أمام الزمالك مساء أمس الثلاثاء. طالع التفاصيل

وقال المصدر لـ”بطولات”: “هناك جلسة ستعقد خلال ساعات لحسم كل الملفات المتعلقة بقطاع الكرة الطائرة”.

وأكمل: “إدارة النشاط الرياضي وضعت خطة كاملة لإعادة هيكلة قطاع الكرة الطائرة خلال الفترة المقبلة”.

وتابع: “الأهلي نافس على 7 بطولات حتى الآن وتوج بأربعة بطولات وخسر ثلاثة ولم نحسم حتى اللحظة المشاركة في بطولتي إفريقيا للرجال والسيدات”.

واختتم: “الأقرب هو الاعتذار عن بطولتي إفريقيا من أجل إراحة اللاعبين واستغلال الفترة المقبلة لإعادة هيكلة الفرق وتدعيمها بالشكل المطلوب”.

ScorecardSussex booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Friends Life t20 and ended Surrey’s hopes in the process following an emphatic six-wicket win at The Oval.Surrey struggled to 106 for 6 before rain brought their innings to a premature end after 16.2 overs with Zander de Bruyn top scoring on 30 not out and Mike Yardy taking 2 for 15.Sussex made light work of reaching a revised target of 109 off 15 overs with Luke Wright (32), Matt Prior (25) and Chris Nash (22) steering them home with 20 balls to spare despite the efforts of stand-in skipper Gareth Batty (3 for 11).After making a positive start a flurry of wickets put the skids under Surrey’s hopes of setting a big target.Jason Roy was first to go for just four as he picked out Chris Liddle at mid-off to give Yardy his first wicket.Three balls later Steven Davies’ promising innings came to an end when he carved a wide ball from Liddle straight to Murray Goodwin at third man having hit 21 off 11 balls.Zafar Ansari lasted just three balls before he lobbed a catch to Wright off the bowling of Yardy to leave Surrey reeling on 32 for 3.Kevin Pietersen followed his duck against Hampshire the previous night by being caught on the boundary for eight trying to hit Will Beer over long on.Michael Rippon then bowled Matt Spriegel for nine and when the first stoppage for rain came Surrey were 86 for 5 after 14 overs.Rory Burns made 23 off 20 balls, including a six off Chris Nash, but then miscued a hook off Amjad Khan and was caught at deep fine leg by Scott Styris.When the rain returned Surrey were 106 for 6 after 16.2 overs and Sussex were set a revised target of 109 off 15 overs.Nash set the tone for Sussex’s reply as he blasted 22 off the first two overs before top edging a catch to Davies off the bowling of Stuart Meaker.Matt Prior plundered 25 off just 10 balls, including a big six off Dirk Nannes, only to be caught on the boundary while Wright made 32 off 21 balls when he offered a return catch to Batty.