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TOP THREE TWENTY/20 MOMENTS IN SURREY HISTORY

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17 June 2008

1 SURREY WIN THE INAUGURAL TROPHY 

WHILST IT might not have been the most thrilling match the Brown Caps have been involved in, victory over Warwickshire in the competition's first ever final set up Surrey as one of the teams to beat for the next five years.

After overcoming Gloucestershire in a low scoring thriller of a semi-final, man of the match Jimmy Ormond destroyed the Warwickshire top order with his 4/11 and further impressive spells from Saqlain Mushtaq and Azhar Mahmood restricted them to 115 all out.

When Ian Ward took 20 off the first over, it quickly became a case of when rather than if and with Alistair Brown also getting involved, Surrey raced to an historic victory off just 10.5 overs.

2 TIM MURTAGH WINS THE AFTER DARK BOWL OUT

IN ANOTHER relatively low scoring affair, Tim Murtagh's end to end accuracy in an extraordinary night time bowl out put Surrey into the 2005 finals day.

After scoring a lowly 149/8 from their twenty overs, Warwickshire - for it was them again - found their reply hit by rain. After a short break, the Duckworth Lewis calculation left them to score 118 from fifteen overs to win. After smearing two from the last ball, they ended on 117 - a tie.

This led to one of the more extraordinary bowl outs in memory, which took place well after 9pm in the pitch black night and ended with Surrey's Tim Murtagh hitting the stumps to win 4-3 before promptly ripping off his shirt and sprinting deliriously around the ground!

3 A NAIL-BITING WIN TO SECURE LONDON BRAGGING RIGHTS

WHEN SURREY play Middlesex there's always a slight edge, with both squads striving to be classed as number one in London and when Middlesex visited the Brit Oval last year it was absolutely no different.

The visitors batted first and - led by 61 from Jamie Dalrymple - scored a respectable 163/6.

Replying, it looked all over for the Brown Caps when they lost Ali Brown, James Benning and Mark Butcher with just 24 on the board but a partnership of 110 between Mark Ramprakash and Jonathan Batty took them to within touching distance before Batty was stumped.

He was replaced by Azhar Mahmood, who dug in and allowed Ramprakash to complete his majestic 85 not out from 52 balls and take Surrey to a massive victory with just four balls remaining.

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