Taylor inspires Gloucs

County Championship D1, The Oval, day one (stumps):
Gloucestershire 368 v Surrey 2-1

Match scorecard

Taylor made Batty pay for his choice to bowl first

Chris Taylor stroked a century to dig Gloucestershire out of a tight spot on day one against Surrey at The Oval.

The skipper's 177 guided the visitors to 368 after Jimmy Ormond (3-78) had helped reduce the visitors to 55-3.

Taylor clubbed 28 boundaries and put on 131 for the fourth wicket with Alex Gidman (62) before Tim Murtagh (5-74) finished off the tail.

In reply, Surrey slumped to 2-1 at stumps with the loss of Adam Hollioake to a run-out for nought.

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Surrey: S A Newman, J N Batty (Capt, Wkt), M R Ramprakash, R Clarke, A D Brown, A J Hollioake, M P Bicknell, I D K Salisbury, T J Murtagh, J Ormond, N D Doshi.

Gloucestershire: C M Spearman, W P C Weston, M G N Windows, C G Taylor (Capt), A P R Gidman, Shoaib Malik, S J Adshead (Wkt), I D Fisher, J Lewis, J M M Averis, Shabbir Ahmed.