County Championship D1, Whitgift School, day one (stumps): Surrey 51-1 v Lancashire 210
Lancashire endured a nightmare start to their relegation battle with Surrey as they tumbled to 210 all out.
And the home side had no such trouble as they reached 148-2 at Whitgift School, Scott Newman making 61 and Mark Ramprakash a patient 55.
The Red Rose county won the toss and chose to bat first, but lost their first four wickets for 21 runs.
Chris Schofield managed 69, and a stand of 71 with Glen Chapple but both men fell to Azhar Mahmood, who took 4-40.
Martin Bicknell returned from a groin injury to open the attack and finished with 3-41.
Lancashire's injury crisis saw six first-teamers unavailable. Captain Warren Hegg reinjured his hamstring during Saturday's Twenty20 semi-final defeat to the same opponent.
Carl Hooper again leads the side and Jamie Haynes keeps wicket.
Surrey: S A Newman, R S Clinton, M R Ramprakash, A D Brown,
J N Batty (Capt, Wkt), R Clarke, Azhar Mahmood, M P Bicknell,
T J Murtagh, J Ormond, N D Doshi.
Lancashire: M J Chilton, I J Sutcliffe, D Mongia, C L Hooper (Capt),
C P Schofield, G Chapple, D G Cork, J J Haynes (Wkt), S I Mahmood,
K W Hogg, G Keedy.
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