Surrey’s meeting with Sussex limped to a sorry end on Monday afternoon. With the floodlights on, few still in the ground and no prospect of a result, captain Rory Burns bowled his medium-pacers, before Dan Worrall and Dom Sibley had a go at leg spin. The players left the field at 3.25pm and did not return.
Burns and his team are seeking to become the first to win four County Championship titles in a row since the 1950s, when their Surrey predecessors won seven on the spin. The result at Hove leaves them with three draws from three matches, which neither represents a disastrous start nor a good one.