Kia Talking Points: Dan Lawrence's match, Reece Topley and Hampshire's batting

The Cricketer looks at the main talking points from the County Championship game between Surrey and Hampshire at the Kia Oval

Movement That Inspires play of the day

It has been Dan Lawrence's week. The Surrey batter became just the second man in first-class cricket to hit a double hundred and a hundred in the same game, both at better than a run-a-ball.

Across both innings, Lawrence made 319 in 254 deliveries, two ludicrous knocks delivered in entirely different circumstances.

"It is something that I've wanted to achieve in first-class cricket for a long while," he said, speaking immediately after his 219, during which – at the tea interval on the first day – he was also presented with his county cap by Alec Stewart. "To be honest, I looked at the pitch this morning, and I didn't think it would be today."

He was particularly savage towards the off-spin of Felix Organ, swatting him over the shorter boundary towards the JM Finn stand for three sixes in Organ's first over of the match. It rather set the theme, Lawrence going through his repertoire in somewhat outrageous fashion, crowned with a remarkable helicopter-ish sweep shot off James Fuller, en route to a 64-ball century.

They are Lawrence's fourth and fifth tons of the season, making him the leading run-scorer in Division One.

^{Reece Topley took a fine catch at backward point for Surrey (Ben Hoskins/Getty Images)}

Take The Lead, Drive Electric moment of the day

Surrey's lineup was a real smorgasbord, with both Curran brothers making their first County Championship appearances of the summer, along with Will Jacks, freshly back from the IPL.

Reece Topley, meanwhile, played his fourth red-ball game of the summer, after four years away. On the final day, as Surrey chased an unlikely victory, he produced the sort of spell that made you wonder what might have been possible had injuries been kinder earlier on his career.

He delivered a ripsnorter to send Nick Gubbins on his way, flicking his glove as he tried to sway out of the way, having already strangled Toby Albert down the legside.

But it was in the field where his most remarkable contribution came, clinging onto a superb diving catch at backward point; a grab that left his teammates, not least wicketkeeper Ollie Pope, stunned.

^{Jake Lehmann has been a bright spark for Hampshire's ailing batting lineup (Alex Pantling/Getty Images)}

Manny positives

It has been a tough campaign for Russell Domingo, the new head coach in charge of Hampshire. He saw his side lose four of their first six games, accruing just a single batting point in the process.

So, coming away from the Kia Oval with a share of the spoils – rain notwithstanding – represents a stopping of the rot, having trebled their batting points for the season. They only reached 333 in their first innings, but that was enough for two bonus points, helped by a doughty rearguard from Delano Potgieter, the overseas allrounder.

Potgieter claimed four wickets in the match, as well as his unbeaten 84 in the first innings, which crucially staved off the threat of the follow-on and, given the weather that kept both sides on their toes the most realistic chance of losing the game.

Jake Lehmann, the nuggety Australian, chipped in with 69, his seventh fifty-plus score in 12 innings.

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