‘Monumental effort’ by Sibleypublished at 15:12 British Summer Time
Surrey 739-4 v Durham
Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle
This stopped being a contest sometime yesterday.
Surrey have now passed 700 and have the second highest score against Durham. The highest is Warwickshire’s 810-4 declared in 1994 when Brian Lara made 501 not out.
Dom Sibley has just become the fourth player to score 300 against Durham. Graeme Hick made 315 for Worcestershire in 2002 and Darren Lehmann 339 for Yorkshire in 2006.
It’s been a monumental effort in this heat, but I will happily never see a Kookaburra ball game again on the basis of this one. Sadly there are still another two rounds of games to go with it.
Sibley now has Robert Abel’s Surrey record of 357* in his sights. That was against Somerset in 1899.
My colleague Mark Church thinks they will declare at tea. Churchy also says Durham “are being slowly cooked” by Surrey. He’s not wrong. But why they are still out there, I have no idea.
