County Championship D1, Northampton, day two (stumps):
Surrey 402 v Northamptonshire
304-9
Northamptonshire stayed afloat on an awkward spinners' pitch in their relegation scrap at home to Surrey.
Half-centuries from Tim Roberts (57) debutant Martin Love (51) and captain David Sales (50 not out) took them to 304-9 by stumps in reply to 402.
With 4-87, including two in an slow left-armer Nayan Doshi was the pick of the visiting attack.
Surrey had managed just 20 more runs in the morning as spinner Jason Brown completed a season-best haul of 5-113.
Northamptonshire: T W Roberts, R A White, M L Love, U Afzaal,
D J G Sales (Capt), G P Swann, B J Phillips, J Louw,
T M B Bailey (Wkt), C G Greenidge, J F Brown.
Surrey: S A Newman, R Clarke, M R Ramprakash, J N Batty (Capt, Wkt),
J G E Benning, A J Hollioake, Azhar Mahmood, I D K Salisbury,
J Ormond, N D Doshi, P J Sampson.
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