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Our ace pacer Kemar Roach warmed up for the Test series against South Africa with a brilliant four-wicket for Surrey in the County Championship clash against Middlesex at the Oval in London. He ended with 4-61 from 15 brilliant overs to earn the hosts a 30-run lead in the first innings.
Kemar Roach returned and took a superb five-wicket haul as Surrey earned a draw with Middlesex in an exciting finish to their contest Sunday.
Asked to chase 290 for victory on the final day at the Oval, Middlesex 250-6. They were in the driver’s seat at 219-2, then Roach claimed 5-86 with a telling burst which all but ended Middlesex’s victory bid.
The performance left Roach with a nine-wicket match haul following his first innings 4-61, and with 22 wickets from four matches.
Name of Author: Cricket West Indies
Cricket West Indies (CWI) governs cricket across the West Indies, a confederation of Caribbean countries. Originally established as the West Indies Cricket Board of Control in the 1920s, it became the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in 1996 and was rebranded as Cricket West Indies in May 2017 as part of a restructuring effort.
