in 1892, with surrey still crushing all opposition in the county championship race, lohmann "suffered only by comparison with previous years" ("wisden"). he surprisingly ceded the position of surrey's chief bowler to the emergent william lockwood who took full advantage of oval pitches being extremely fiery and untrue due to reconditioning of the square, but it still seemed as though lohmann had many years of county and test cricket ahead of him. a rude shock to surrey was to come, however.