Surrey break first-class cricket record by scoring 671/9d

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    Surrey's home ground (Photo credit: Surrey Cricket on Facebook)

    Surrey have set a new record for the highest total in first-class cricket without a batter scoring a century.

    On day two of their English County Championship Division One clash with Kent, they declared on 671/9 with seven batters scoring half centuries.

    Three of those – Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes and Jaime Overton – lost their wickets in the “nervous nineties.”

    According to a tweet by the club, they needed to score 610 as a team to break the world record.

    BBC Sport says the record that has been broken is 609 made by Namibia against Uganda in 2010.