Kia Oval Talking Points: Dan Lawrence belts supreme hundred after rare stint behind the stumps

The Cricketer looks at the main talking points from the Men's T20 Blast match between Surrey and Glamorgan at the Kia Oval

Movement That Inspires play of the day

Glamorgan could be forgiven for thinking that they might embark on the long trek back to Cardiff through Friday night with the fillip of four points and a rare win at the Kia Oval.

They mustered 222 for 6 after winning the toss and opting to bat, and they gave every bit as good as they got in a battle of two of the South Group's current top four.

But they hadn't factored in an inspired display of hitting from Dan Lawrence, who teed off, dragging Surrey from the gloom of 16 for 3 in the fourth over to their victory target with five balls still to spare.

Lawrence played as he so often does, moving around his crease to create gaps in the field. He regularly walked across his stumps, particularly against Andy Gorvin, to access the shorter legside boundary, sweeping him for one six and using his wrists to flick him off the back foot for another.

He was ably supported by Tom Curran, who finished unbeaten on 49, playing second-fiddle in an unbroken stand worth 146 for the fifth wicket.

Lawrence went to his maiden T20 century and fittingly belted the winning six back over Gorvin's head to seal the deal in front of a bumper Oval crowd, finishing 120 not out in 54 balls.

^{Colin Ingram was exceptional in a losing cause (Harry Trump/Getty Images)}

Take The Lead, Drive Electric moment of the day

Before Lawrence's night out, it looked like being another for the scrapbook of Colin Ingram, the great South African overseas player, enjoying yet another fine summer towards the end of his career.

He hoisted five enormous sixes in his 33-ball 69, partnering with the impressive Asa Tribe, 19 years his junior, who confidently bashed a half century of his own.

Will Smale, another with plenty of potential enjoying a breakthrough summer in Wales, looked imperious for 37 before being run out by Jason Roy, only midway through the night's fourth over.

Sorry, why is Dan Lawrence keeping wicket?

The night was memorable for Lawrence even before he strode to the crease following Sam Curran's dismissal to a short ball, gloved behind to young wicketkeeper Alex Horton.

Lawrence had taken the gloves himself during Surrey's time in the field after Laurie Evans suffered a blow to the finger early on.

That Evans was keeping wicket in the first place said plenty for the number of alternative options missing for Surrey. Lawrence was just about Surrey's seventh-choice option, given the absences of Ben Foakes, Jamie Smith, Ollie Pope, Josh Blake and Rory Burns, who kept recently in the County Championship, with Foakes on paternity leave.

Lawrence has done it occasionally in the past; he spent a grade winter in Australia with the gloves for Newtown and Chilwell, while playing in Geelong, and he also kept wicket in his younger years at Chingford, his boyhood club, before his off-spin took over. According to Cricket Archive, this was his fourth century as wicketkeeper, his first in 11 years since his winters down under.

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