Jade Dernbach hat-trick for Surrey restricts Gloucestershire to 220

19 September 2015 01:16

Jade Dernbach finished with a hat-trick as Surrey bowled Gloucestershire out for 220 in the Royal London Cup final, despite Geraint Jones' battling half-century in his final match.

Dernbach ended his career-best six for 35 with successive wickets at Lord's, initiated when he yorked Jones with the next ball after the 2005 Ashes-winner had completed his 50.

Dernbach then made the shortest possible work of numbers 10 and 11 Craig Miles and David Payne - caught-behind off an inside edge and hit high lbw ducking a slower ball - as Gloucestershire ran out of resources in 47.4 overs after being put in on an awkard pitch.

Jones served them well, in this final appearance of his 14-year career, chiselling out a 64-ball 50 and stands of 52 and 49 with Tom Smith and Jack Taylor for the sixth and seventh wickets.

But Gloucestershire were struggling throughout, after their Plan A got no further than the third delivery of the match - which eliminated Michael Klinger.

So prolific all summer, the captain was gone for a duck - caught-behind trying to cut at a short and wide ball from Dernbach.

There were more setbacks on the way.

Chris Dent had just pulled Dernbach for four when he drove the next ball straight into the hands of mid-off.

Hamish Marshall was stumped off a wide when he advanced in Gareth Batty's second over but was undone by an off-break which turned up the slope - and Gary Wilson reacted well behind the stumps.

Then Azhar Mahmood struck twice in successive overs, bowling Benny Howell through the gate and Gareth Roderick off an inside edge with deliveries pushed down the slope from the pavilion end.

Batty had begun by conceding five wides first ball, in an over which cost 11 - but he and Mahmood were soon squeezing the run rate as wickets fell.

Jones got under way with an off-driven four off Mahmood from the second delivery he faced, but was restricted to singles for the next 10 overs until he clubbed the same bowler for a free-hit six over long-on.

There was just that maximum and another Jones four in the half-century stand with Smith.

A run-out, Smith unable to scamper a single when he was called through off his own reverse-sweep at Batty, left Jones still trying to work out how to keep his team competitive from 162 for six at 40 overs.

The 41st was then the first maiden of the innings.

Taylor hit two leg-side sixes as 20 were plundered off Tom Curran, in the 45th - but there was to be no telling late push, thanks to the returning Dernbach.

Source: PA