Smith bounces back from Ashes struggles with century in Surrey draw

County Championship: Jamie Smith scores century as Surrey secure final-draw with Warwickshire England wicketkeeper Jamie Smith responds to Ashes struggles with 132 for Surrey; financially-challenged Sussex immediately wipe out their 12-point deduction with victory over Leicestershire; 43-year-old James Anderson denied victory in first match as Lancashire captain by one wicket Monday 6 April 2026 20:02, UK Jamie Smith bounced back from a disastrous winter Ashes tour of Australia with a hundred to help rescue a draw for Surrey in their opening match of the County Championship season against Warwickshire. Smith, who averaged 23.44 over the five Tests in Australia, served the England selectors a reminder of his talents as he hit 132 batting at No 3 in Surrey's second-innings score of 447-4 at Edgbaston. The best of Jamie Smith's wonderful 132 against Warwickshire! 🤩 An incredible knock by a wonderful cricketer! 👏 🤎 | #CountyChampionship pic.twitter.com/09kZa44rAv — Surrey Cricket (@surreycricket) April 6, 2026 --> Twitter This content is provided by Twitter , which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Twitter cookies or to allow those cookies just once. You can change your settings at any time via the Privacy Options . Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies. To view this content you can use the button below to allow Twitter cookies for this session only. Enable Cookies Allow Cookies Once Surrey still trailed by 47 runs, three down, at the start of day four after Warwickshire's massive first-innings total of 544 but Smith's century, along with a sublime 161 from Dan Lawrence - the pair putting on 217 of the fourth wicket - ensured the match would end in a stalemate. Elsewhere in Division One, Somerset and Nottinghamshire played out a draw at Taunton, as did Glamorgan and Yorkshire in C...