Surrey’s festival of cricket drew a huge crowd

The Oval welcomed 14,000 fans, the Championship had its first tie in six years and Jimmy Anderson was on fire

By Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket Blog

The match between Surrey and Essex at the Oval drew a crowd of more than 6,000 on the first day, Sunday being designated “the festival of red-ball cricket”. Even with plenty of weather about, almost 14,000 attended across the duration of the match, a record this century.