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Dan Lawrence is in his third season with Surrey, but he hasn't had a day like Sunday before.

Lawrence was awarded his county cap at the tea interval, just after reaching 150*, and went on to make his maiden double century, less than 48 hours after smashing an unbeaten 94 from 47 balls as Surrey fell narrowly short in the T20 Blast against the same opposition on the same ground.

Lawrence said: “That was a pretty good day at the office! I’m chuffed with the position we’re in and of course to get the 200 - and my county cap as well.

"For the first couple of hours it felt like it was a pitch on which there might be a ball with your name on it but this morning we just tried to take the game on as far as possible and see how conditions turned out later.

"When I first went out there, in the conditions we had earlier, I certainly wasn’t expecting to be scoring a double hundred! It was really just a case of trying to put the pressure back on Hampshire’s bowlers.

“A double hundred is something I’ve always wanted to achieve in first-class cricket, but when I looked at the wicket this morning I didn’t think it would be something that would happen today!

“I’ve felt in really good order this season so far and I just tried to be as positive as possible once I got in."

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Anyone walking into the Oval 24 hours ago, eyeing the track and the clouds, might well have expected Hampshire seamer Kyle Abbott to have himself a day.

It was not to be, although the South African did pick up three wickets to polish off the Surrey tail in the gloom and finished with 3-76 after sending down 20 overs without a breakthrough earlier in the day.

Abbott said: “It felt a long day during the partnership between Dan Lawrence and Ollie Pope but we hung in there when it was tough and came back a bit after Sonny [Baker] got the breakthrough.

"It was not an easy day though for us after winning the toss and I am surprised, given the pitch and conditions at the start, that they have got more than 400.

“The pitch was quite damp this morning but when balls nipped off the surface they were doing so quite slowly.

"It’s good we got to bat ourselves but it was still a tough day for us.”

The bell should be ringing about now, but as you can see from this post from Surrey on social media, external, the covers remain firmly on with rain still falling over Kennington.

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Anyone looking at the lime green track and the blankets of cloud over the Oval yesterday morning would have expected a low-scoring match with the potential for 15+ wickets falling in the day, much like we've seen elsewhere in London in recent days.

This was anything but. Hampshire won the toss and chose to bowl first, but though the scoring was slow in the opening hour, Dom Sibley stood firm for his 39 through the morning session.

When he departed at 98-3 early in the afternoon you thought Hampshire might get their tails up, instead Dan Lawrence and Ollie Pope produced an extraordinary stand of 255 in 37 overs, breaking a club record for the fourth wicket against Hampshire set in 1948.

Fresh from an unbeaten 94 from 47 balls in the T20 between the sides here on Friday night, Lawrence brought up his fourth first class century of the summer, then a new career-best, then a maiden double century from just 172 balls, second only to Kevin Pietersen in Surrey history.

He eventually holed-out for 218 in the madness as the visitors prised out the final six Surrey wickets for just 31 runs as the hosts yet again fell short of maximum batting points.

Hampshire had an awkward 11-over mini-session to face, but they didn't quite make it halfway through before bad light stopped play with the visitors 404 in arrears with all 10 wickets standing.

It's not great, I'm afraid.

We managed to get through nearly 90 overs on day one, despite grey skies and the floodlights being required at points, but the wet stuff has arrived in the capital this morning and the covers are on at the Oval, and look set to be for a while.

Our colleagues at BBC Weather are hopeful things will clear up later in the day, but the forecast is not much better across Tuesday and Wednesday either, in truth.

June in the UK, eh?

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Good morning!

Welcome to day two of the lone County Championship game on the slate this week.

Sunday was an extraordinary day. Before the toss, which Hampshire won, it was overcast at the Oval and the wicket was as soft and green as you've likely ever seen.

Plenty of people who know a lot about cricket expected it to be a low-scoring wicket-fest, given the quality players in the bowling ranks on both sides.

However that didn't happen. Instead we saw a scintillating 255-run fourth-wicket stand between Ollie Pope and Dan Lawrence, who bludgeoned his way to the second fastest double century in Surrey history, the first of his career.

Hampshire rallied with the ball late in the day, taking 6-31 to polish off the hosts and were 32 balls into their reply to Surrey's 421 when bad light stopped play.

The weather is likely to hamper our enjoyment of day two, and we will have a delayed start, but we'll bring you all the action there is, and we have plenty of time to get you up to speed.