• Surrey 394-5 v Somerset
• Sangakkara and Rory Burns share a stand of 187Spectators,hardy people all given the knifing northerly wind, were still trickling through the Hobbs Gate when Craig Overton gained an lbw decision against Arun Harinath and Kumar Sangakkara came to the wicket. Did they know, or one wonders,that it was this very date in 1905 that Jack Hobbs – 23 years dilapidated and destined to become known as The Master, the most prolific scorer of centuries the game has seen – made his first-class debut at The Oval, or for Surrey against the Gentlemen of England,and marked it by scoring 18 and 88?Now, 111 years on, and another batting master produced a display of such skill and aesthetic quality that other batsmen,suitable players in the contemporary mode such as Rory Burns (80) and Jason Roy (85) were made to look journeymen by comparison.
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Source: theguardian.com