KT vs SUR 112th Match, T20 Blast 2022

Surrey won the toss and decide to bowl, which was seen going in its favor throughout the match. When Surrey’s opener came out to chase a tough target of 192. Jason Roy and Will Jacks started with all guns blazing and scored at a blistering pace. They both had put 65 runs on the board during the powerplay itself and laid a good foundation for Surrey from where winning the game became very easy. Roy played a captivating inning, he started hitting the Kent bowlers as soon as he came. He scored 58 runs in 27 balls. Jason Roy was caught by Qais Ahmad in his spin and showed the way to the pavilion and gave the first success to Kent. After Roy's dismissal, Curran came to support Will Jacks. Both of them put together a partnership of 32 runs for the second wicket, but Jacks lost his wicket in vain. Evans joined in the middle Curran. Sam Curran was playing with his attacking style, he only hit sixes all around the ground. Evans took some time to understand the pitch but as soon as he was in the middle, he played a short entertaining inning, scoring 26 runs at a strike rate of 200. After the dismissal of Evans, wickets were tumbling down for Surrey. Sam Curran played well enough to score his half-century tonight while other batters also chipped in with some runs but nobody managed to capitalize and convert the starts. In the end, the rest of the work was done by Jamie Smith and Chris Jordan, both of them played an unbeaten knock of 6* off 3 and 5* off 3, and Surrey won the match by 4 wickets.

On the other hand, Qais Ahmad was the pick of the bowlers for Kent he took 3 wickets and gave away 28 runs in his 4 overs. Linde and Leaning took one wicket each respectively. Klaassen and Milnes were wicketless tonight.
 
Earlier in the day, The visitors started in a fast and furious style as they scored 67 in the powerplay with a positive mindset even after losing Denly early in the second over itself. Muyeye got a decent start but couldn’t capitalize on it as he fell on a score of 41 in the 8th over when he was found short of his crease. Cox lit up the stadium in the first innings as he got 54 in just 31 deliveries before falling short to Overton. Alex Blake played well enough to score his half-century tonight while other batters also chipped in with some runs but nobody managed to capitalize and convert the starts, they got into a big score but the cameos were good enough to post a decent enough total for the visitors.