HARVEY Hosein took seven catches on his first-class debut for Derbyshire as Surrey were bowled out for 181 on the opening day of their LV County Championship match at The Oval.
His haul equalled the highest number of catches ever taken in an innings by a Derbyshire wicketkeeper, joining Bob Taylor, who did it twice. No wicketkeeper has ever taken as many on his Championship bow.
Derbyshire also found batting tough in their reply but were reasonably well placed at the close on 164-5, with Wayne Madsen 48 not out.
There were also six wickets for Mark Footitt in an outstanding spell for Derbyshire after lunch as Surrey lost seven wickets for 58 and the innings was rounded off with a maiden first-class wicket for Ben Cotton.
Yet at lunch, Surrey were 68-2 and Derbyshire could still feel a little hard done by after winning the toss, beating the edge of the bat repeatedly.
Wayne White came on as first change and continued the trend of near misses until Zafar Ansari got a nick to give Hosein an easy catch behind the stumps. He made 22 and that was 47-1.
Eight overs later, Rory Burns went the same way for 24 and, at 63-2, the scoreboard reflected the balance of play a little more accurately.
With the sixth ball after lunch, Steve Davies played a loose shot to be caught at point off Footitt for five and, in his next over, Footitt had Vikram Solanki caught behind for 12 at 75-4.
Jason Roy was caught behind for 14 off Footitt, who then took two more in successive balls, having Arun Harinath (4) lbw and Gareth Batty caught by a flying Hosein down the leg side at 109-7.
Stuart Meaker was caught behind off Footitt for nought at 117-8 and Jade Dernbach came out to throw the bat at every ball until he was bowled by White for eight at 130-9.
But skipper Gary Wilson held Derbyshire up in making 70 and putting on 51 with Tim Linley (1) until he was caught behind off Cotton, in for his debut in place of Tony Palladino, who has a back injury.
Footitt finished with 6-69 and White 3-39.
Openers Ben Slater (34) and Billy Godleman (28) put on 62 to start the Derbyshire reply only to fall in the space of three overs, then Cheteshwar Pujara followed for 16 when he left a Linley ball that came back to strike his off stump.
Wes Durston was caught at second slip for four and Alex Hughes at third slip for 17 but Madsen remained and will have Hosein (4) with him at the start of day two.
