A County Championship CLASSIC at the Kia Oval | Surrey v Yorkshire Day 3 EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS

Josh Blake and Matt Fisher were the Surrey heroes in a thrilling one-wicket County Championship win against Yorkshire at the Kia Oval. Blake, who finished on 43 not out from 183 balls, it was the innings of his cricketing life and for Fisher (33) it completed a memorable all-round match against his native and former county. Coming together with Surrey seemingly slipping to defeat at 115 for seven, chasing 185, the unlikely eighth wicket pair added 55 in 23 tension-filled overs before Fisher edged a drive at George Hill to third slip. In extraordinary scenes, Auqib Nabi then swung Ben Coad for six but skied to mid on from the next ball with just two runs needed. And after No 11 Dan Worrall and Blake failed to score from the next 10 balls – including a brilliant maiden from Hill, in which he beat Blake’s outside edge five times and was outstanding with 4 for 52 from 23 overs – it was Worrall who sliced Coad away over square cover for the winning boundary. Blake, a 27-year-old reserve wicketkeeper playing only his seventh first-class match as a makeshift top order batsman, was at the crease for four and a half hours after coming in at No 4. The left-hander hit five fours but mostly showed the sort of patience and self-discipline beyond many other players in this game. Fisher, who on a chaotic second day took six for 25 as Yorkshire were shot out for 82 soon after Surrey had themselves succumbed for 83 against a swinging and seaming ball, played superbly for 59 balls with one of his three fours – a crashing cover drive off Jack White – perhaps the shot of a low-scoring match. Surrey’s 19-point victory takes them just above Yorkshire in the Division One table, and the stakes were high for both teams in this absorbing contest. Defeat for Yorkshire drags them into the relegation battle, while if Surrey had lost they would have been in dire trouble.