| County Championship Group Two, The Kia Oval, London (day two): |
| Hampshire 92: McManus 31*, Holland 22; Clark 6-21, Clarke 2-22 |
| Surrey 513-3: Amla 215*, Pope 131, Burns 80; Abbott 1-37 |
| Surrey (8 pts) lead Hampshire (1 pt) by 421 runs |
| Scorecard |
Hashim Amla demonstrated his timeless class with an unbeaten 215, while Ollie Pope made 131 as Surrey’s dominance of Hampshire continued at The Oval.
Amla and Pope shared a third-wicket partnership of 257 as Surrey closed on 513-3 in reply to Hampshire’s 92.
Rory Burns (80) and Jamie Smith (66 not out) also put on century stands with the former South Africa batsman.
Hampshire could only take two wickets all day, those of Burns and Pope, as Surrey built an imperious lead of 421.
The hosts were already in the ascendancy resuming on 131-1 and with a lead of 39 runs but Amla’s innings of more than eight hours put them seemingly on course for a big innings win.
By the time bad light stopped play, he had registered his fourth-highest individual first-class knock and passed 200 for the seventh time in his career.
After England Test opener Burns had missed his chance to score three figures under-edging a pull shot on to his stumps off Liam Dawson, his international team-mate Pope made the most of his opportunity.
He brought up his second century of the season off just 139 balls before a well-taken low catch by Brad Wheal at wide gully gave Scott Currie a welcome breakthrough at 413-3.
But the runs continued to flow for Surrey when Smith joined Amla. The right-hander raced to his half-century off just 64 balls and had helped them past 500 by stumps.
