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Ryan Patel’s career-best 134 guided Division One leaders Surrey to 415 and a 153-run first-innings lead against Durham.
Dan Worrall then had nightwatchman Callum Parkinson superbly held by Conor McKerr at third slip from the first ball of Durham’s second innings as they finished on 1-1.
Patel, who batted for just short of five hours before being caught on the deep mid-wicket boundary, took the game away from Durham in an eighth-wicket stand of 92 with Tom Lawes.
The pair began by attacking the second new ball and Lawes struck a six and six fours in a confident 58.
Patel was dropped on 19 and 70, while Tom Curran also survived two edges into the slip cordon early on, Rory Burns having been put down soon after the start of the second day’s play.
Durham, despite their fielding lapses, performed creditably with the ball until Patel and Lawes pulled away.
Surrey resumed on 52 without loss and Dom Sibley helped Burns take their opening stand to an excellent 87 before edging Bas de Leede low to first slip.
Burns had reached 55 when he was bowled by a magnificent delivery from Chemar Holder.
Surrey lost three wickets in five overs as Dan Lawrence pushed at a ball from De Leede and, like Sibley, snicked low to David Bedingham.
Patel and Ben Foakes steadied the innings with a partnership of 47 before the latter feathered a catch to keeper Ollie Robinson and De Leede, who finished with 4-106, struck again when his yorker hit Sam Curran on the boot and he won an lbw appeal that left Surrey 169-5.
Tom Curran supported Patel before being squared up by a fine ball from Parkinson that clipped his off stump.
Perhaps the key moment of the day came when Patel hooked a short one from De Leede to deep square leg where Stanley McAlindon allowed the ball to fly through his hands and over the rope for six.
Patel then drove De Leede’s next ball for four and, in the next over, back-to-back boundaries by Jordan Clark off Parkinson took Surrey into the lead.
Clark made 22 before pulling Holder to deep square leg but Patel was then joined by Lawes in what could well be a match-defining partnership.
McKerr skied James Minto to Robinson to give the 16-year-old a maiden first-class wicket and Worrall stayed to ensure Surrey a fourth batting bonus point until Lawes was quite brilliantly held by a diving Alex Lees.
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