GUILDFORD, England, CMC – Barbadian Nico Reifer failed to score on Tuesday as Surrey was bowled out on day one of their Second XI Championship fixture against Warwickshire.
Playing at Woodbridge Road in the southeast, the 22-year-old right-hander lasted only six deliveries at number three, but Surrey rallied to 222 in their first innings.
Tim Lloyd top-scored with 47, wicketkeeper Josh Blake struck 44, while opener Sheridon Gumbs chipped in with a marathon 39.
Warwickshire firmly replied to end on 61 without loss, with 17-year-old left-hander Amir Khan stroking an unbeaten 41.
Sent in, Surrey lost captain Ben Geddes for ten and then Reifer in the following over, to be 16 for two in the sixth over of the morning.
Geddes was squared up by new-ball seamer Henry Brookes and taken behind while Reifer, the cousin of West Indies all-rounder Raymon Reifer, missed an expansive drive and was comprehensively bowled by Brookes’s new-ball partner Craig Miles (2-52).
Blake and Gumbs repaired the damage in a 66-run, third-wicket stand before Lloyd and Nick Kimber (23) added a further 31 for the seventh to bolster the innings.
Danny Briggs, a 31-year-old left-arm spinner who played the last of eight white-ball internationals for England nine years ago, finished with five for 53.
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