County cricket talking points: Surrey clinch title with match to spare
It was when the player profiles appeared on the big screens at the Oval that I felt sure it was Hampshire’s job to keep the title race open and not Yorkshire’s. The likes of Finlay Bean and George Hill may have talent, but they looked very callow compared to Surrey’s big beasts, such as Jamie Overton, Kemar Roach and Dan Worrall. Factor in Tom Kohler-Cadmore’s propensity to squander his talent and Will Fraine, in at No 5 but with just the one half-century this season, and it never looked likely that the visitors would score enough runs – and they didn’t.
