Pope’s happy to play the waiting game on Surrey’s conveyor belt

By Richard Edwards
A LOOK through Surrey’s squad list will give plenty of First Division coaches sleepless nights in the run-up to the new season.
The current County Champions celebrated their first title since 2002 back in September – one that would have been wrapped up far earlier were it not for the bookend scheduling of the tournament.
It was the 19th title in Surrey’s history, dating back to their first in the opening edition of the competition way back in 1890. That still puts them some way off Yorkshire’s total of 32 but the wise money would be on the Brown Ca...

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