County Championship: Keaton Jennings stars with 190 as Lancashire dominate Surrey

Keaton Jennings has scored 1,224 runs in Division One this season

LV= County Championship Division One, Emirates Old Trafford (day one)

Lancashire 414-5: Jennings 190*, Croft 86; Steel 2-63

Surrey: Yet to bat

Lancashire 5 pts, Surrey 1 pt

Match scorecard

Keaton Jennings hit a brilliant 190 not out to press his case for an England recall as Lancashire dominated day one against champions Surrey.

Jennings, who is now the leading run-scorer in this year’s County Championship, batted from started to finish to bring up his fifth hundred of the summer as the Red Rose ended on 414-5.

The left-handed opener shared a third wicket stand of 195 with Steven Croft who was out for 86, sparking a fall of three wickets for 13 runs as Lancashire slipped to 304-5.

But he found excellent support late in the day from George Balderson who finished unbeaten on 53 in an unbroken sixth wicket stand of 110.

Surrey, who wrapped up the title last Thursday with their 10-wicket triumph over Yorkshire, had a hard day in…

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