Hollioakes hold out as Surrey draw with Somerset
The Hollioake brothers frustrated Somerset's victory bid as Surrey held out for a draw on the final day at Taunton
Richard Latham
26-Aug-2001
The Hollioake brothers frustrated Somerset's victory bid as Surrey held out
for a draw on the final day at Taunton.
Skipper Adam led the way, batting for nearly two-and-a-half hours, facing
115 balls and hitting 12 fours in his 83 after his side had been set an unlikely
target of 407 to win from a minimum of 83 overs.
Ben contributed an equally valuable 56, taking only 51 balls to reach his
half-century, with 6 fours and 2 sixes.
And Alistair Brown showed good concentration to make 64 in more studied
fashion as Surrey closed on 294-6.
Somerset had batted on for 35 minutes at the start of the day, extending
their overnight 265-5 to 311-6 before Jamie Cox declared at the fall of Ian
Blackwell's wicket for 67.
Richard Johnson then got to work with the new ball and soon added Ian Ward
to his five first innings victims, trapping the opener lbw with a
full-length delivery.
It was 24-2 when Gareth Batty drove loosely at a Johnson outswinger to give
wicketkeeper Rob Turner his seventh catch of the match. And Surrey looked in
some trouble when Mike Carberry was run-out soon after lunch to make the
score 90-3
But Adam Hollioake and Brown put on 95 for the fourth wicket before
Hollioake fell to Steffan Jones. And Brown and Ben Hollioake then added a
further 73 to frustrate a Somerset attack lacking sufficient support for
Johnson, who recorded match-figures of 9-152.
Turner ended the game with nine dismissals to equal a Somerset record he
already had a share in. And the home side's 11 points were enough to take
them back into second place in the Championship table, with just two matches
left.
It was a special match for Taunton-based Ray Julian, given a guard of honour
by the Somerset players as he took the field after tea for his last session
as a first class umpire at the County Ground.