Surrey FIGHTBACK after strong Somerset start | Vitality County Championship | Day 1

After a strong morning session from the visitors, Surrey’s bowling unit regrouped after the lunch interval and launched a comeback, led by Gus Atkinson and Cam Steel, before Rory Burns and Dom Sibley continued the momentum, bringing down the deficit to 243 runs by the close.
The run out of Matt Renshaw for 87 - courtesy of Jordan Clark’s sharp fielding - in mid-afternoon sparked a Somerset collapse from 196 for one to an eventual 285 all out against champions Surrey at The Kia Oval.
Renshaw responded to Tom Lammonby’s call for a very sharp single, when he was on 99, after Clark initially fumbled at mid on. But Clark quickly pounced on the loose ball and, from behind the bowler’s stumps, scored a direct hit at the keeper’s end to beat Renshaw’s desperate dive for safety.
Until then, the first ball of the 45th over, the opening day of this Vitality County Championship division one contest was in control of Somerset as Lammonby and Renshaw built an impressive 178-run stand for the second wicket. Some of Lammonby’s strokeplay, in particular, was of high class and there were 10 fours in his 61-ball fifty before lunch, which Somerset took at 131 for one.