da wazamba： Leicestershire spinners Claude Henderson and Jigar Naik combined superbly toinflict an innings and 60-run defeat on Surrey in their County ChampionshipDivision Two match at The Brit Oval
06-Jun-2010
ScorecardUsman Afzaal batted well in the first innings but fell for a duck second time around•PA Photos
Leicestershire spinners Claude Henderson and Jigar Naik combined superbly toinflict an innings and 60-run defeat on Surrey in their County ChampionshipDivision Two match at The Brit Oval.Left-armer Henderson was the star performer in Surrey’s first innings, taking6 for 84, and after they had followed on off-spinner Jigar Naikrecorded figures of 7 for 96, the first five-wicket return of his career. Surrey were bowled out for 183 which, even allowing for a pitch offering considerable help to the spinners, was a poor effort.The defeat, Surrey’s first at Leicestershire’s hands in the competition since1998, would have been even more clear-cut but for an entertaining last-wicketstand. Last pair Younis Khan, who hit three leg-side sixes off Naik as he made anunbeaten 77 off 110 balls, and Jade Dernbach put on 46.Fittingly, Naik had the final word, 20 minutes from the scheduled close, whenhe bypassed a wild thrash from Dernbach. Surrey, who remain rooted to the bottom of the table, were already deep in trouble on 160 for 6 at the start of the day, but at least Usman Afzaal andChris Schofield resisted for almost an hour before, with the score on 202, before Schofield was leg before wicket to Henderson offering no shot.Afzaal reached a valuable 91-ball half-century with a cover-driven four offHenderson. He repeated the shot, but in Henderson’s next over he edged anotherattempted drive to Tom New behind the stumps. The last thing Surrey needed was a run out, but when Chris Tremlett failed to answer Stuart Meaker’s call for a quick single to extra cover Meaker failed to regain his ground as Jacques du Toit scored a direct hit. The following ball brought Henderson his sixth wicket, a sharply turning ball finding the edge of Dernbach’s bat.Surrey followed on 243 behind and had already lost Steven Davies before lunch.Davies, a model of consistency with the bat since joining Surrey at the start ofthe season, was lbw to the eighth ball of the innings when Nathan Buck swung oneinto the left-hander.A gritty stand of 41 in 23 overs between Arun Harinath and Mark Ramprakash atleast suggested that Surrey might be capable of taking the match into the finalday, but Naik claimed the wickets of Harinath, Ramprakash and Afzaal in quicksuccession.Harinath edged to slip, Ramprakash’s defensive stroke cannoned into the groundand back onto the stumps and Afzaal was leg before without scoring. At thatstage Naik had figures of 3 for 6.Surrey’s plight worsened five balls after tea when captain Rory Hamilton-Brown,was bowled trying to work Henderson against the turn. Gareth Batty was lbw to aball from Naik which kept low and Schofield was taken at silly mid-off.