Surrey crash to defeat

County Championship D1, Bristol (day three): Gloucestershire 405 & 106-4 beat Surrey 298 & 213 by six wickets
Points: Gloucestershire 22, Surrey 5

Match scorecard

Jon Lewis was in electric form on Friday morning in Bristol

Not even a resolute last-wicket stand of 114 could prevent Surrey crashing to a third Championship defeat of the season at Bristol on Friday.

Gloucestershire's Jon Lewis claimed figures of 7-44 as the visitors slumped to 109-9 during the morning.

Mark Ramprakash (64 not out) and Jimmy Ormond (a first-class best of 57) dug deep, but it still left an easy target of 106 for the hosts to knock off.

There were one or two nerves but Matt Windows held calm to close out victory.

The day began with Surrey 21-1 in their second innings, still 87 runs behind.

Lewis, who had taken the wicket to fall on Thursday evening, struck next as nightwatchman Nayan Doshi was caught behind for 11.

Moments later, skipper Jon Batty was caught by Mark Alleyne to fall for the same score, and the procession continued as Lewis trapped Rikki Clarke lbw for 12, and then sent back Ali Brown and Nadeem Shahid for ducks.

While Pakistani seamer Shabbir Ahmed kept things tight at the other end, his countryman Azhar Mahmood became Lewis's seventh victim, Alleyne again holding the catch.

At that point, the right-arm seamer had every single one of the first seven wickets to fall.

Shoaib Malik and James Averis then collected a wicket apiece and Surrey were facing a possible innings defeat.

But Ramprakash and Ormond ensured the scrap would continue until past tea with their rousing partnership, finally ended by Shabbir.

In Gloucestershire's run chase, Surrey's debutant spinner Doshi took two wickets, but he simply did not have enough runs to play with.

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Gloucestershire: C M Spearman, W P C Weston, T H C Hancock, M G N Windows, C G Taylor (Capt), Shoaib Malik, M W Alleyne, S J Adshead (Wkt), J M M Averis, J Lewis, Shabbir Ahmed.

Surrey: J N Batty (Capt, Wkt), S A Newman, A D Brown, M R Ramprakash, R Clarke, N Shahid, Azhar Mahmood, M P Bicknell, J Ormond, N D Doshi, T J Murtagh.