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  • New £10,000 prize for county cricketers
    A new £10,000 prize awaits county cricket's most valuable player, after an overhaul of the FTI MVP ranking system.

    16/04/2013 (36 days old) | Read more
  • 50 years of one-day cricket
    By Andrew Hignell
    With the domestic first-class season starting today in Abu Dhabi, it’s an appropriate time to remember that 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of limited-overs cricket into the county calendar,

    24/03/2013 (59 days old) | Read more
  • Nosworthy tribute to Somerset predecessor
    By Richard Latham
    Dave Nosworthy has begun his job as Somerset’s director of cricket by paying glowing tribute to his predecessor Brian Rose.

    20/03/2013 (63 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset consult Flower over keeper dilemma
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset insist a decision has not yet been made over whether Craig Kieswetter or Jos Buttler will keep wicket this season.

    20/03/2013 (63 days old) | Read more
  • Statsman: Me and Dad
    By Andrew Hignell
    I wish I could have had a pound for every time somebody has asked me the question – name the father and son who played for Glamorgan during the 1980s. 

    08/03/2013 (75 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Warne's warning over Aussie spin worries

    By Richard Gibson
    The dearth of homegrown spinners in Australia has been highlighted just days after their best of all-time Shane Warne published his vision for their future development.



    07/03/2013 (76 days old) | Read more
  • Second spinner incentives run into opposition
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspodent
    Plans to incentivise counties for playing a second specialist spinner have run into strong opposition from county coaches and chief executives.

    05/03/2013 (78 days old) | Read more
  • Nosworthy's Taunton arrival imminent
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset have confirmed that their new director of cricket Dave Nosworthy will be at Taunton to begin work by the middle of the month.

    01/03/2013 (82 days old) | Read more
  • PCA urge players to seek help on drugs
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Professional Cricketers’ Association is to encourage county players who may be taking recreational drugs to seek help 

    01/03/2013 (82 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset News
    Steve Kirby took 7-24 from 8.4 overs as MCC bowled out a South XI for 113 on course for a seven-wicket victory in the third match of their tour to Argentina. It was the tourists' second win in three games with the other washed out.

    27/02/2013 (84 days old) | Read more
  • County rookies to receive career guidance
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    First year county cricketers will be given advice on safe drinking, anti-doping and anti-corruption 

    25/02/2013 (86 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset return to Bath
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset will be returning to Bath this season, with a YB40 match against Yorkshire being held at the Recreation Ground on Thursday August 15.

    22/02/2013 (89 days old) | Read more
  • PCA renew MVP rankings sponsorship
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Professional Cricketers’ Association have renewed their sponsorship agreement with FTI Consulting of their Most Valuable Player Rankings.

    21/02/2013 (90 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Bresnan's sound advice
    By Richard Gibson
    Tim Bresnan got some sound advice from England team-mate Graeme Swann before heading off to the Mayo Clinic in the United States to undergo elbow surgery last week.

    18/02/2013 (93 days old) | Read more
  • Compton: I need to improve in NZ
    By Richard Latham
    Nick Compton has been back at Taunton this week reflecting on his England performances in India and looking forward to the

    15/02/2013 (96 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket's unbreakable record
    By Andrew Hignell
    It’s a record that can never be broken, and only one bowler has ever come close to equalling it.

    14/02/2013 (98 days old) | Read more
  • Brian Langford dies, aged 77
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset are mourning the loss of their former captain Brian Langford, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 77.

    13/02/2013 (98 days old) | Read more
  • PCA initiative links to Maynard Trust
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Tom Maynard Trust is linking up with the Professional Cricketers’ Association to support the players’ union’s Personal Development and

    04/02/2013 (107 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Pune's mad money
    By Richard Gibson
    The maddest of the mad money splashed during the Indian Premier League auction this week was surely the $700,000 Pune Warriors parted with to

    04/02/2013 (107 days old) | Read more
  • Richardson called up again by MCC
    By Paul Bolton
    Worcestershire seamer Alan Richardson will provide a link between the final day of last season and the first day of the new one when he plays for the MCC against

    23/01/2013 (119 days old) | Read more
  • Overseas trips a winter boost for Kirby
    By Richard Latham
    Three Somerset players are looking forward to a break from the English winter with appetising trips abroad next month.

    21/01/2013 (121 days old) | Read more
  • Book aids PCA awareness programme
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Professional Cricketers’ Association is sending all 2,300 of its members a best-selling book on depression as part of its on-going

    21/01/2013 (121 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Inverarity losing it in translation
    By Richard Gibson
    Australian chairman of selectors John Inverarity is always very precise in his language when explaining decisions made by his panel – which provided

    16/01/2013 (126 days old) | Read more
  • PCA offer prize for off-field initiative
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Professional Cricketer’s Association has launched a new award to find the most proactive player, past or present, off the pitch.

    16/01/2013 (127 days old) | Read more
  • Petersen to extend Somerset stint
    By Richard Latham
    Alviro Petersen will be extending the time he spends with Somerset in the coming season to include the Friends Life t20 competition.

    09/01/2013 (133 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Yorkshire chase Tait
    By Richard Gibson
    Cash-strapped Yorkshire want to follow Roses rivals Lancashire's lead and host pop concerts.

    07/01/2013 (135 days old) | Read more
  • PCA chief opposed to Notts' IPL stance
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association hopes that counties will not follow Nottinghamshire’s example by preventing English

    22/12/2012 (151 days old) | Read more
  • Nosworthy succeeds Rose at Somerset
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset have appointed Dave Nosworthy to succeed Brian Rose as their new director of cricket.

    20/12/2012 (153 days old) | Read more
  • Abdur Rehman to return to Somerset
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset have announced that Abdur Rehman will be returning to play for them next season.

    18/12/2012 (155 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Cook's cow shot debt to 'The Gnome'
    By Richard Gibson
    Alastair Cook’s increasingly positive approach to batting is no surprise to Keith Fletcher, one of his mentors as a schoolboy.

    18/12/2012 (155 days old) | Read more
  • Wallace to succeed Solanki as PCA chairman
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    Glamorgan captain Mark Wallace has been elected the new chairman of the Professional Cricketers’ Association.

    17/12/2012 (156 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset target title on back of hefty profits
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset have announced a profit of £409,000 for the last financial year, despite one of the wettest summers on record.

    10/12/2012 (163 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Cook's cut-price captain's log
    By Richard Gibson
    England captain Alastair Cook spent time on the telephone garnering advice from predecessor Andrew Strauss before the current tour of India and carries a Test-specific notebook to

    24/11/2012 (179 days old) | Read more
  • PCA grants reach £1 million mark
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Professional Cricketers’ Association has passed the £1 million landmark in educational funding grants for past and present players over the last ten years.

    23/11/2012 (180 days old) | Read more
  • Trescothick to see out career at Somerset
    By Richard Latham
    Marcus Trescothick has pledged the remainder of his career to Somerset by signing a new three-year contract.

    22/11/2012 (181 days old) | Read more
  • Petersen signs for Somerset
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset have signed South African Test batsman Alviro Petersen as their overseas player for the first part of the 2013 season.

    10/11/2012 (193 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Ramps steps up for England
    By Richard Gibson
    Such have been the advances since English cricket’s first academy intake 11 years ago – which included Andrew Strauss, Graeme Swann and Andrew Flintoff – that the 2012-13 Performance

    09/11/2012 (194 days old) | Read more
  • Trescothick aims to play on past 40
    By Richard Latham
    Marcus Trescothick has revealed an ambition to extend his playing career beyond his 40th birthday.

    07/11/2012 (196 days old) | Read more
  • 2012: the worst year for batting?
    By Andrew Hignell
    The 2012 season was played in the wettest summer, from a cricketing point of view, since the introduction of two-divisional County Championship cricket in 2000, while in meteorological terms it was

    06/11/2012 (197 days old) | Read more
  • Statistics confirm 2012 rain damage
    By Andrew Hignell
    The so-called summer of 2012 was, from a meteorological point of view, the wettest for a hundred years. As far as

    29/10/2012 (205 days old) | Read more
  • Suppiah granted a Somerset benefit
    By Richard Latham
    Arul Suppiah has been granted a benefit year by Somerset in 2013. The 29-year-old batsman and

    19/10/2012 (215 days old) | Read more
  • ECB propose rethink on county schedule
    The County Championship will involve Sunday starts from 2014 onwards after the ECB board announced a new four-year schedule

    19/10/2012 (215 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset News
    Arul Suppiah has been awarded a benefit by Somerset in 2013. The 29-year-old has scored more than 5,000 first class runs since making his debut for the club in 2002.

    18/10/2012 (216 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Decision time for McGrath
    By Richard Gibson
    One conclusion drawn from Anthony McGrath’s absence from Yorkshire’s Champions League squad is that his future lies away from the club.

    12/10/2012 (222 days old) | Read more
  • Scorers oppose ECB analyst plans
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    County scorers are opposing plans by the England and Wales Cricket Board to do without away team scorers and replace them with analysts from

    10/10/2012 (225 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset support Rehman's ECB drug ban
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset have backed the England and Wales Cricket Board's decision to suspend Abdur Rehman for 12 weeks for taking a recreational drug.

    04/10/2012 (230 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Cook's dash, Anderson's style
    By Richard Gibson
    Alastair Cook’s unassuming demeanour makes him extremely popular in the England dressing room but his personality rarely projects beyond those four walls.

    02/10/2012 (232 days old) | Read more
  • Finn incidents may prompt MCC law change
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    England paceman Steven Finn’s regular disturbing of the stumps at the non-striker’s end in his delivery stride has prompted the MCC to consider a law change that would make

    02/10/2012 (232 days old) | Read more
  • Trescothick has second ankle operation
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset captain Marcus Trescothick is recovering from another operation on his problem ankle.

    28/09/2012 (236 days old) | Read more
  • CB40 groups for 2013 announced
    By Paul Bolton
    Warwickshire will face Midlands rivals Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire in next season’s Clydesdale Bank 40 group stage

    19/09/2012 (245 days old) | Read more
  • Pietersen left out of England squad
    England have left out Kevin Pietersen from their Test squad for the tour of India. Two uncapped batsmen, Somerset's Nick Compton and Yorkshire's Joe Root, have been called up. 

    18/09/2012 (246 days old) | Read more
  • PCA launch initiative to combat depression
    By Robin Hutchison
    While county cricket spectators may have felt down in the dumps about the wettest summer for a century, the very real subject of depression among the players they watch is altogether more serious.

    17/09/2012 (247 days old) | Read more
  • Trego rewarded for best season of career
    By Robin Hutchison
    Somerset's Peter Trego has completed a remarkable career transformation by winning the FTI Most Valuable Player award for the 2012 season.

    18/09/2012 (246 days old) | Read more
  • County groundsmen win national award
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The hard work of county groundsmen across the country during one of the wettest summers on record has been officially recognised with a prestigious national award.

    17/09/2012 (247 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Steyn's sympathy, KP tweet fall-out
    By Richard Gibson
    Ravi Bopara received sympathy for his current plight from an unusual source in his final international appearance before heading to the ICC World Twenty20.

    16/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Wettest summer for 100 years: the details
    By Andrew Hignell
    It's official: 2012 has been the wettest summer for exactly a hundred years

    15/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire all out for 152 and Somerset win by an innings and 148 runs. Rehman finished with 5-36 and match figures of 14-101. Somerset 23 points, Worcestershire two and the hosts confirmed as Championship runners-up.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Russell has been caught at leg-slip by Trego off Rehman, who has 4-31 in the innings and 14-96 in the match. Worcestershire are 129-8 and the end is nigh.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire 124-7 having had Cox brilliantly caught at mid-wicket by Suppiah for four pulling a short ball from Kirby. Somerset's players can start counting the £162,000 they will share for being Championship runners-up.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Rehman is starting to run through Worcestershire again. D'Oliveira bowled in similar fashion to Kapil for three. The visitors are 93-6 and their unhappy season looks set to finish on another low note.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    You have to feel sorry for Aneesh Kapil, who for the second time in the match has played forward immaculately to Rehman only for the ball to turn past his outside edge and knock back off stump. He made two and Worcestershire are 81-5.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Craig Overton has struck in his first over. Moeen Ali, on 24, edged a sharp catch to Trescothick at second slip. Worcestershire are 78-4, still 222 in arrears.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset News
    Left-arm spinner George Dockrell and all-rounder Craig Meschede have both signed new two-year contracts with Somerset.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Pinner has fallen lbw to Thomas, who has just agreed an extension to his Somerset contract, for 14 to leave Worcestershire 50-3 and still 250 behind. A three-day finish looks likely as the sun beats down on a decent sized crowd.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • LUNCH - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire 39-2, with Mitchell well caught at second slip by Hildreth off Rehman for 18 to give the Pakistan left-arm spinner his tenth wicket of the match. There will surely be more this afternoon as the visitors battle to avoid an innings defeat.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset have declared on 512, with a lead of 300. They may have delayed had they realised that Compton, on 155, was just six short of 1,500 first class runs for the season and had an average of 99.6. Six more and he would have averaged 100.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset 506-9 with Rehman caught at mid-off by Kervezee off Moeen Ali, who now has four wickets. Compton has just reached his 150 off 317 balls, with 14 fours and a six. He has been batting for five hours and 18 minutes.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset 488-8 and Richardson has claimed his 500th first class wicket by dismissing Thomas lbw for 17. Compton us still there on 139 and the lead is 276. The sun is shining and it seems only a matter of how quickly the home side wrap up victory.

    13/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset 451-7, leading by 239, with Compton unbeaten on 114, having surely boosted his claims to an England tour spot this winter. He now has 1,453 first class runs to his name this season at an average of 96.86.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset are now 434-7 having lost Trego for a rapid 45 and both Craig Overton and Steve Snell cheaply. The lead is 222 so they will hardly be quaking in their boots. And Compton is still there in 111 with four overs left in the day.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Somerset v Worcestershire
    A timely century for Compton on his return to action after a back problem. It was brought up with a square cut four off Moeen Ali. There were 9 other fours and a six in a 248-ball ton that the England selectors will surely take note of. Somerset 379-4.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire have now bowled 110 overs so Somerset, on 360-4, have missed out on a batting point. It won't matter if they win the game, which seems highly probable, as that would guarantee runners-up spot and a cheque for the players of around £160,000.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Richardson has three wickets, with Jones lbw for one playing across the line. Somerset are 343-4, with Compton still going strong on 89, and Trego the new batsman. He is unlikely to be in defensive mode with his side 131 ahead.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Richardson has struck again in his 30th over. Hildreth has gone leg-before for 18 trying to work a full ball through mid-wicket. The 37-year-old pace bowler is at last reaping some reward for his efforts and has 2-62. Somerset 341-3.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset 336-2 and we are watching the two leading run-makets in first class cricket this summer batting together. Compton has moved to 84 in a match where a century would be timely for his England ambitions, while Hildreth is on 18. The lead is 124.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Now Trescothick has gone for 146, caught at second slip to give Richardson the wicket he so richly deserved. The Somerset skipper faced 260 balls and hit 19 fours. Somerset 307-2, with Compton (77) about to be joined by Hildreth.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Somerset v Worcestershire
    150 stand between Trescothick (145) and Compton (77). It hasn't been easy, particularly against the ageless Richardson who could have had both out several times in taking 0-51 from 24 overs of high class seam bowling. Somerset 306-1, leading by 94.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • TEA - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Play is due to restart at Taunton at 3.10pm with only two overs lost. Tea has been taken with Somerset 297-1 and the final session will see 44 overs bowled, weather permitting. There are still a lot of black clouds around.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    Rain stopped play at Taunton with Somerset 297-1 and leading by 85. Trescothick is unbeaten on 142, while Compton is boosting his case for England selection with 71 not out. Richardson has bowled with no luck and little support.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    After a ten minute delay due to drizzle, the afternoon session is underway with Trescothick moving to 122 and Compton 39. The pitch inspector stayed on after Rehman's first day heroics, but can hardly find fault with a surface that has Somerset 243-1

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • LUNCH - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset 227-1, with Trescothick having completed his 51st first class century off 187 balls, with 13 fours. Compton is unbeaten on 37 and both have batted with great skill. Somerset lead by 15 and runners-up spot in the Championship looks theirs to clinch.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • Boyce planning John O'Groats-Land's End walk
    By Mark Baldwin
    Leicestershire batsman Matt Boyce is planning to walk from John O’Groats to Land’s End this autumn in aid of depression in sport.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset going well on 182-1. Suppiah has gone this morning caught and bowled by Moeen Ali for 75 off a checked drive. Trescothick is on 87 and Compton 17. We have just had a brief rain break and clouds are threatening, but the players are back on.

    12/09/2012 (252 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset 142 without loss and totally in command thanks to Rehman's brilliance. Trescothick and Suppiah coped comfortably with the Worcestershire spinners and their side are only 70 behind as they push to clinch runners-up spot in the Championship.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Half-centuries for Trescothick and Suppiah as Somerset make hay in the sunshine. They are 119 without loss, only 93 behind, with Trescothick on 62 and Suppiah 51. The pitch inspector is coming back tomorrow, but is unlikely to be needed.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset 40 without loss, with Trescothick going ominously well on 27. But we haven't seen any spin from Worcestershire yet and judging by the response Rehman got from the pitch that will be the key.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcs 212 all out, with Rehman claiming a career-best 9-65, completed by the wickets of Harrison, lbw having a swing for ten, and Richardson leg before defending for a duck. The best figures by a Somerset bowler since 1993 when Andy Caddick took 9-32 v Lancs.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    The dream is over for Rehman as Trego has picked up the wicket of Russell, caught behind for two chasing a wide one. It is Trego's 49th Championship wicket of the season, but the best Rehman can now hope for is nine victims in the innings. Worcs 179-8.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Make that 7-47 for Rehman, who has just bowled Kapil for 22 with a ball that pitched middle and turned to clip off stump. From 74 without loss, Worcestershire are now 174-7 and we are on the verge of witnessing something very special.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    All ten is still on. Rehman has just sent back D'Oliveira, leg before playing defensively, for two and has 6-46, with Worcestershire 173-6 in the 49th over.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcs 165-5 and it's a one-man show for Somerset with Rehman now having figures of 5-45. His latest victim was Kervezee, lbw attempting to sweep, having made 40. At this rate the Pakistan spinner could get all ten as no other bowler is threatening.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • LUNCH - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcs 131-4 from 33 overs after an entertaining morning. Rehman has 4-35 from nine overs, his last victim being Moeen Ali who was caught at short-leg by Jones for 24.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcs 94-3 with Pinner caught and bowled Rehman for six off a leading edge trying to work the ball into the leg side. Rehman 3-17 from five overs.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    Moeen Ali has the unusual distinction of moving to 13 with a six and a seven. The six was straight off Rehman, the seven a three plus four overthrows. He survived a sharp chance to Trescothick before scoring. Worcs 94-2.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Rehman is changing the course of the morning. He has now had Mitchell caught at second slip by Hildreth for 28 off a ball that turned. Worcestershire 75-2 and Rehman has 2-4 off eight balls.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Hughes has gone for 42 to a fine piece of bowling by Rehman. He left the previous ball and saw it turn sharply to go over his off stump. The next delivery was the arm ball and Hughes edged a drive to Trescothick at slip. Worcs 74-1 after 16 overs.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Somerset v Worcestershire
    A fifty stand for the first wicket in just 8.4 overs for Worcestershire against some wayward Somerset bowling from Trego and Kirby. Mitchell is on 20 and Hughes 25.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset: Trescothick (capt), Suppiah, Compton, Hildreth, Jones, Trego, Snell (wkt), Thomas, Rehman, C.Overton, Kirby.
    Worcestershire: Mitchell (capt), Hughes, Kapil, Moeen Ali, Kervezee, Pinner, Harrison, Leach, Cox (wkt), D'Oliveira, Russell.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire won the toss - Somerset v Worcestershire
    The visitors have elected to bat on a bright, but blustery morning.

    11/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Kieswetter's rise, Davies's fall
    By Richard Gibson
    Craig Kieswetter is set to oust rival Steven Davies for the back-up wicketkeeper position on England’s Test tour to India this winter.

    09/09/2012 (255 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Sussex v Somerset
    Somerset complete their second highest successful run chase in history as they reach their target of 396 with five wickets to spare. Amazing stuff. Hildreth finished unbeaten on 101 and Trego 89. Their partnership was worth 166.

    07/09/2012 (257 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Sussex v Somerset
    Hildreth brings up his century off 174 balls. Just about got there in time as Somerset only need another three to win

    07/09/2012 (257 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Sussex v Somerset
    Trego brings up his 50 by sweeping Panesar for six over the scoreboard. Has come off just 46 balls. Somerset need another 50 to win

    07/09/2012 (257 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Sussex v Somerset
    100 partnership between Hildreth and Trego in just 15 overs. Somerset motoring towards their target of 396 to win on 331-5

    07/09/2012 (257 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Sussex v Somerset
    Somerset pass 300 as Hildreth edges Hatchett for 4. He's on 74 and the partnership with Trego (24) is worth 70 so far. Somerset need less than 100 to pull off an unlikely win as well. Sussex starting to get worried

    07/09/2012 (257 days old) | Read more
  • LUNCH - Sussex v Somerset
    A good morning for Somerset as they have moved from 155-4 overnight to 252-5. Hildreth is still there on 56 as they chase a further 144 to win

    07/09/2012 (257 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Sussex v Somerset
    Hildreth brings up his 50 off 108 balls with 8x4. Somerset are 248-5, needing another 148. Sussex might start to worry soon if another wicket doesn't gone down.

    07/09/2012 (257 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Sussex v Somerset
    Somerset just about survive the final two overs to finish on 155-4, still needing another 241 to win. Magoffin currently has 3-15 from 14 overs with 9 maidens.

    06/09/2012 (258 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Somerset lose a fourth wicket for the addition of just four runs as Kirby is caught at short leg by Nash off the bowling of Magoffin. He has now got 3-11 and Somerset are 151-4, still 244 behind

    06/09/2012 (258 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Sussex hitting back in the final hour of the day as they pick up a third wicket. Magoffin gets his second as he gets one to nip back slightly and bowl Jones for 1. Somerset have gone from 147-0 to 150-3, still needing 246 to win.

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Two wickets down in the space of seven balls as Suppiah goes for 70. Edged Magoffin to Prior at slip who fumbled it before grabbing it at the second attempt just inches above the ground. Somerset have gone from 147-0 to 147-2, still 248 behind.

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Sussex finally make a breakthrough as Trescothick gets an inside edge onto his stumps off the bowling of Panesar for 71. He put on 147 for the opening wicket with Suppiah who is still there on 70. Somerset still 248 behind.

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  • Landmark - Sussex v Somerset
    Somerset are batting a lot better than they did in the first innings as they chase a target of 396 to win at Hove. They've moved to 109-0 with both Suppiah and Trescothick making half centuries so far. There are 16 overs to go today

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  • TEA - Sussex v Somerset
    Somerset have started their pursuit of 396 to win well as they reach tea at 58-0. Magoffin opened with five straight maidens but Trescothick and Suppiah have dug in well and are now 32 and 21 respectively.

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  • Warwickshire win the Championship
    Warwickshire have won the County Championship for the first time since 2004 with an emphatic innings-and-202-run win over rivals Worcestershire, who have been relegated. 

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Sussex are all out for 308 so Somerset will be chasing 396 to win. Panesar was the last man to go. Given lbw to Rehman despite being miles down the track. 51 overs today so there is a chance this one could be finished today unless Somerset bat well

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Abdur Rehman picks up his first wicket of the innings as he traps Magoffin lbw for 19. Sussex go to lunch on 270-8 after resuming on 187-2 so it's been a good session for Somerset. Lead is still a big one at 357 though.

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Thomas has his five-for as he digs one in short to Yardy who plays on attempting the hook. Sussex have lost their last five wickets for 24 runs now but still have a commanding lead of 342.

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Alfonso Thomas is rattling through the Sussex batting now. He's picked up three wickets in successive overs now as he traps Brown lbw for 1. Sussex 248-6

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    It's the end of an era at Hove as Murray Goodwin is caught behind off Alfonso Thomas for 77. He looked furious not to make a century on his final innings here but the whole ground stands to applaud him and his kids run to him as he trudges back

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Matt Prior's innings was short but sweet. Hit two fours in his ten before being run out in a horrible mix up with Goodwin. Sussex 240-4 now and Yardy is the new man. Goodwin on 74

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Chris Nash's innings comes to an end on 126 as he nicks one from Alphonso Thomas to the wicketkeeper. Put on 183 with Goodwin for the third wicket and fell just 23 short of 1,000 Championship runs for the season. Sussex 231-3, a lead of 318. Prior new man

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  • Sussex v Somerset
    Play has started on the third day of Sussex's clash with Somerset at Hove. Sussex resume on 186, a lead of 273. Nash on 106 and Goodwin 51 in his final ever innings at Hove after 12 seasons with the club. Decent crowd in hoping he can make a century

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  • Close Of Play - Sussex v Somerset
    A very good day for Sussex who go into the third day leading by 273. Nash is 106 and Goodwin 51, having taken their side to 186-2 at stumps. 

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  • Landmark - Sussex v Somerset
    Two of them in  the same over. Goodwin has passed 50 for only the second time this season and now Nash has driven Thomas back up the slope to reach his 100 with his 17th boundary. He was on 99 for ten deliveries before going to his ton. Lead is 269

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  • Sussex v Somerset
    Jetting back from Dubai to play in this game might belatedly be taking its toll on Rehman, who is struggling to make a breakthrough here. Nash and Goodwin have now put on 96 for the third wicket and Sussex are 230 ahead with 14 overs left today

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  • Landmark - Sussex v Somerset
    50 for Nash off 71 balls with nine fours. Sussex's lead is 194 and Goodwin , always a fine player of spin, is relishing his duel in the sun with Rehman. 

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  • Sussex v Somerset
    Sussex 96-2 heading into the final session with Nash on 43 and Goodwin 25. Rehnan the key to Somerset's hopes of getting back into this contest, especially while Mahmood continues to feed Goodwin's square cut, another of which has just gone for four.

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Thomas into the attack and he has Luke Wells caught behind for 20. The left-hander squared up by one that left him off the pitch. Murray Goodwin walks out to play his last innings at Hove to a standing ovation and he's off the mark 2nd ball with a four

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Breakthrough for Somerset as Ed Joyce goes for 7. He was dropped at slip off the previous Kirby delivery and the next looped up to third slip. Kirby's in-your-face celebrations did him little credit and Joyce seemed convinced it came off the pad.

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  • Interval - Sussex v Somerset
    two wickets in successive overs straight after lunch for Lewis Hatchett and Somerset are all out for 134. Sajid Mahmood's off stump went walkie and Steve Snell edged behind. Hatchett, Magoffin and Panesar all picked up three wickets, Sussex's lead is 87

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Two in successive overs as Somerset's collapse continues. Steve Snell went on  the offensive to Panesar but only succeeded in picking out Hatchett at mid-off and now Alfonso Thomas has edged Hatchett to slip for a four-ball duck.

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Nice catch by Chris Nash on the long  on boundary to end a counter-attacking cameo by Peter Trego, who struck four successive balls from Magoffin to the pickets but has now perished trying to hook James Anyon. Somerset's slide continues.

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Three wickets have gone down in 18 balls now as James Hildreth picks out Matt Prior at mid-wicket with a mis-timed clip to give Panesar his first wicket. 

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Two in successive overs for Magoffin who has just snapped up Chris Jones, who followed an away-swinger and was caught low down at second slip by Mike Yardy. 

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Five balls after reaching  that milestone Trescothick has gone for 31, lbw to a straightish offering from Magoffin which the Somerset captain simply missed. Big wicket that for Sussex. 

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  • Landmark - Sussex v Somerset
    Nice moment for Marcus Trescothick who has just reached 20,000 first-class runs with an off drive for four. Somerset are 66 for 1 with Monty Panesar now into the attack. He can expect a long spell today.

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  • Sussex v Somerset
    Good morning from a sunny Hove where Somerset have added six runs in four overs to their overnight 30-1. Chris Nash was given the first over but Steve Magoffin is now bowling, unusually for him, down the slope. Lewis Hatchett at the other end. 

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  • Brian Rose to step down at Somerset
    By Richard Latham
    Brian Rose has decided by mutual agreement to step down as the Somerset’s director of cricket at the end of the season.

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  • Close Of Play - Sussex v Somerset
    Magoffin thought he had got the key wicket of Trescothick just before stumps but a feint edge dropped just short of Ben Brown behind the stumps. Somerset's day, 30-1 in reply to Sussex's under-par 221.

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  • Somerset News
    Brian Rose is to step down as Somerset's Director of Cricket at the end of the season by mutual agreement with the club.

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Steve Magoffin, as he has done so often this season, has made a breakthrough for Sussex with the new ball, trapping Arul Suppiah for 1 in his second over. 

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  • Interval - Sussex v Somerset
    Sussex all out 221 and a rather ignominious end to their innings. The last four wickets fell for four runs in 23 balls, three of them to Rehman who benefited from some turn. Monty Panesar will be licking his lips but that was some collapse from 168-3. 

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    First wicket for Rehman who comes round the wicket to the left-handed Yardy who edges to Trescothick at slip. Decent stand of 38 in 21 overs with Magoffin, but Somerset are into the Sussex tail and will fancy dismissing them for under 250  now.

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Two of them in three balls infact and Somerset have dragged it back well. Thomas had Joyce caught behind for 65 and then Ben Brown edged to second slip for 2. Somerset have taken 3 for 11 in 26 balls. 

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Matt Prior had moved onto 17 and was looking in the mood but he has just played around a ball from Alfonso Thomas and been bowled. Ex-captain Mike Yardy joins Joyce now. 

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  • Landmark - Sussex v Somerset
    Ed Joyce reaches his 50 with a square cut for four off Mahmood. Sussex going along steadily on 160-3 with Abdur Rehmann into the attack 

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Goodwin out for 16. He's got a lot of starts this season but not gone on and has edged Mahmood into Trescothick's safe hands at second slip. Prior in and off the mark with a leg glance for 4. 

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Wells, who needed a new helmet after he was hit by Mahmood, went in the fourth over after lunch. Good ball from Kirby had him on the back foot and driving to short mid-on for 28. Murray Goodwin comes to the crease to generous applause. 

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Essex
    Adam Wheater, having struck two fours in the previous over, is caught by wicket-keeper Michael Bates for 19  to leave Essex 112-6. It gives David Balmcombe his fourth wicket of bhe match so far. Mark Pettini has 34.

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  • LUNCH - Sussex v Somerset
    Good morning for Sussex after they were put in. It has been hard going at times but skipper Joyce and Wells have so far put on 52 in 22 overs to take them to 83-1 at the interval. Joyce on 27 and Wells 24.

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  • Sussex v Somerset
    Ouch. Luke Wells has been clanged by a ball from Sajid Mahmood and the Sussex physio is on to administer treatment. Sussex 83-1 in the 29th over which will be the last before lunch.

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  • Sussex v Somerset
    It has not been easy for the batsmen but Joyce and Wells have looked reasonably comfortable against an accurate Somerset attack so far. Wells is seen as Murray Goodwin's heir apparent and has played well for his 20, Joyce 22 and Sussex are 74-1.

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  • WICKET - Sussex v Somerset
    Nash goes caught behind by Snell as Steve Kirby finds that extra bounce in this pitch. Sussex 31-1 in the 8th over as Luke Wells comes out to join Joyce. Nash was dropped by Snell on 23 off Kirby off an inside edge so he will be relieved.

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  • Sussex v Somerset
    Looks like another pitch with good pace and carry and no surprise that for the third game running the captain who has won the toss has inserted. Sussex are 9-0 after 4 overs

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  • Sussex v Somerset
    Somerset: Trescothick*, Suppiah, Jones, Hildreth, Snell +, Barrow, Trego, Thomas, Rehman, Mahmood, Kirby. Somerset have put Sussex in

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  • Team News - Sussex v Somerset
    Sussex: Nash, Joyce*, Wells, Goodwin, Prior, Yardy, Brown+, Magoffin, Hatchett, Anyon, Panesar. Hatchett comes in for Amjad Khan

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  • White Rose bedraggled but still blooming
    By Andrew Hignell
    The summer of 2012 is finally over – well, at least it is from a meteorological point of view, with September 1 marking the start of autumn. For the weather-beaten cricketers of

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  • Compton ready to take Strauss opening role
    By Richard Latham
    Nick Compton says he is ready to accept the challenge of replacing Andrew Strauss as England opener this winter should the opportunity arise.

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  • Result - Somerset v Surrey
    Match drawn - Somerset 8 points, Surrey 9 points. For the record, Surrey finished on 360 for 5 declared, with Harinath unbeaten on 105 and Wilson on 30

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Surrey
    Arun Harinath 100 - his second in successive Championship games - off 179 balls, with 12 fours, as this game nears its end. Surrey 346-5

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  • TEA - Somerset v Surrey
    Surrey 297-5, with Harinath 66 not out, lead by 320 but this match will meander to the inevitable draw after tea

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Jason Roy, on 28, is bowled by Saj Mahmood with the ball keeping very low. But this game will now be a draw. Surrey 287-5 - a lead of 310.

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    There now seems no hope of a declaration and, with it, a chance of a result. There are, effectively, 37 overs left in the day for Somerset to bat - and Surrey's lead is up to 293 at 270-4. Shame.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Zander de Bruyn caught at slip off Dockrell for 18 - Surrey 232-4, a lead of 255. Harinath remains 40 not out and a declaration must be imminent

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Four overs of cafeteria bowling from James Hildreth and Chris Jones immediately after lunch brought 47 runs, most of them to Kevin Pietersen, before KP hit Jones's optimistic off-spin straight to short extra for a 40-ball 58 (4x6, 6x4). Surrey now 221-3

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Surrey
    Surrey 153-2 and leading by 176. Pietersen has moved rapidly to 28 and holds the key to his side being able to declare in time to have a realistic chance of bowlng Somerset out.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Surrey 124-2 and leading by 147, with Ansari caught at second slip by Trescothick aiming a big drive at Mahmood. That brought Kevin Pietersen to the crease and he was lucky to survive a mistimed drive off Dockrell which just cleared Hildreth at mid-on.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Rory Burns, after a battling innings, has been caught at short leg off George Dockrell for 60. Surrey, at 102-1, now lead by 125

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Play has started on time on the final day at Taunton where Surrey have moved to 74-0 in their second innings to lead by 97. After yesterday furore over Kartik's run out of Barrow, peace seems to have been restored and a draw appears the likely outcome.

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Surrey
    Surrey, at 58-0 at stumps, with Burns 37 and Ansari 21, lead overall by 81 at the end of a controversial day's cricket. Surrey have made it known that they feel the Barrow run out was justified, as he had been previously warned, but "regrettable" in terms of the spirit of cricket

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Somerset all out 294, a first innings deficit of 23, with Steve Kirby the last man out - caught behind for 2 as Meaker finished with 4 for 75

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Trego out for a highly-spirited 92, bowled by Meaker with one that kept low after hitting 13 fours and two sixes from 110 balls. Somerset 284-9

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    George Dockrell caught behind for 1 off Stuart Meaker, armed with the second new ball. Trego remains on 87, and Somerset are 279-8

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  • TEA - Somerset v Surrey
    Somerset 251-7 at tea, with Trego on 64 not out. More boos and shouted criticism at Surrey's players as they left the field at the interval, with a large number of spectators gathering at the entrance to the players' pavilion to let them know their views

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    More boos as Kartik wins another lbw appeal, this time against Alfonso Thomas on the sweep. Thomas gone for 8, and Somerset are 250-7. Pete Trego has, however, completed a hard-hit, combative fifty and is relishing the fight

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Kartik is still being booed, and is a former Somerset player, remember. Umpire Peter Hartley, meanwhile, was heard over the scorers' walkie-talkie asking Gareth Batty, the Surrey captain, three times if he wanted to withdraw the appeal. He clearly did not.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Huge controversy here at Taunton with Alex Barrow run out for 12, backing up and apparently without a warning, by Murali Kartik, the bowler. Boos are ringing around the County Ground. Extraordinary scenes. Somerset 191-6

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Three wickets in 14 balls for Murali Kartik has brought Surrey right back into the ground. All three wickets were lbw, Hildreth and Jones without adding to their lunch scores (85 and 50, respectively) and Jos Buttler for 14. Somerset 167-5

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Lancashire all out 262. Keedy the last man out, ct by Stokes off Onions for one. Onions 6-41 off 26.1 overs to give him 62 wkts in the championship this season.  

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Surrey
    Somerset 151-2, with Hildreth on 85 and Jones on 50. The pair have done a great job against a Surrey attack possibly inhibited by a strong wind that has led to an area around one of the sightscreens being cordoned off for spectator safety.

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Hildreth, dropped by Burns at leg gully off Meaker on 25, has now moved on to 46 and with Jones on 41 Somerset are 99 for 2

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Somerset have moved to 60 for two in the first 20 minutes' play, with Chris Jones square cutting and extra cover driving Stuart Meaker for fours to go to 25. Meaker is bowling quickly

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Play will start here at 11.40, and just two overs have been taken off the day's allocation of 96. Lunch will be at 1.30 and tea at 4.10pm

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Umpires Steve Gale and Peter Hartley have carried out their inspection, and announced they want to look again at 11.15. Still sunny and breezy here, however, so we hope to have a resumption sometime this morning

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Warm and sunny in Taunton this morning, but we have had more heavy overnight rain, after yesterday's prolonged deluge, and conditions out there are still very wet. Covers coming off, though, and inspection is due at 10.30

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  • CB40 group finale sums up rain-hit summer
    By Andrew Hignell
    A microcosm of the summer of 2012 in all its watery entirety was seen in the the last round of Clydesdale Bank 40 group games on Monday August 27.

    29/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Surrey
    Play has been abandoned for the day at Taunton at 2.45pm without a ball bowled and with rain still pouring down. What a summer!

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  • England plan county Ashes warm-up
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    England are lining up a match against county opposition next season as a warm-up to the Ashes series.

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  • Trescothick On Strauss
    Marcus Trescothick said: "I am not surprise by Andrew's retirement, although I had hoped he would stay on as a Test player for a while. He took England to number one in the world and winning the Ashes away from home would have been the pinnacle for him."

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    It has been announced that there will be no play before lunch, which will be taken at the normal time. The umpires had a quick look at the amount of water on the covers and beat a hasty retreat back to their dressing room.

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  • Counties set to reject Champions League
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    Counties are unlikely to take part in next year’s Champions League Twenty20 competition because it is likely to clash with the climax to the domestic season.

    29/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Surrey
    It has been raining steadily at Taunton where Somerset are due to resume on 42-2 in reply to Surrey's 317. The heavy covers are on and there appears no prospect of play before lunch. Brighter weather is forecast for later, but it may not come in time.

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Surrey
    Somerset's third wicket pair of Chris Jones and James Hildreth have seen it through to 42-2 at the close - both have 15. Hildreth was hit a nasty blow on the gloves by the fiery Meaker, but was able to continue. Surrey lead by 275 after a fascinating day

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Marcus Trescothick gone for 3, caught and bowled by Stuart Meaker from a quick ball that reared from just short of a length and seemed to catch the shoulder of Trescothick's bat as he tried to drop his hands at the last moment. Somerset 16-2

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Arul Suppiah caught at the wicket off Jon Lewis for a duck. Somerset 5-1 and have an awkward 15 overs in total to get through tonight

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Pietersen out! He is last out for 163 - and quite a tame end, caught behind off Saj Mahmood as he propped defensively forward, to leave Surrey 317 all out. A great effort from KP - 168 balls, 20x4, 3x6

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Murali Kartik is hitting out alongside Kevin Pietersen, accelerating Surrey past 300 after the loss of Jon Lewis - caught at slip off Dockrell - left them 285-9. KP now has 163* and Kartik 23*. Surrey 317-9

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Two wickets in two balls by Saj Mahmood - but neither of them is Pietersen! Gareth Batty slashed a catch to James Hildreth at first slip, on 5, and then Stuart Meaker was bowled by one that seemed to keep a little low. Jon Lewis avoided the hat-trick but Surrey are 267-8. KP 140*

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Dockrell, having been hit straight for six and four by Pietersen - the six landing in the River Tone - has made one bounce and turn sharply to leave Wilson (27) stranded down the pitch as he moved out to drive. Jos Buttler completed the stumping. Surrey 261-6

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  • TEA - Somerset v Surrey
    Surrey 240-5, with Pietersen now 119 not out and Gary Wilson on 25. They have added 76 for the sixth wicket so far and, in KP's currently steely-eyed mood, it could well be a lot more after tea.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Surrey
    KP 100 at Taunton, and a stroll in the park for England's finest batsman. No doubt, with the one-day team playing at the Ageas Bowl, Pietersen was keen to mark the day - and, from 116 balls (17x4, 1x6) he has done so in some style. He got there with flick to mid-wicket off Thomas - and celebrated with a driven four next ball. It is KP's 45th first-class century.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Two wickets in an over for Steve Kirby, who has run in with some purpose in a lengthy spell. First De Bruyn, on 34, edged an expansive drive to keeper Jos Buttler, and then, five balls later, Jason Roy edged a legside flick to Buttler. Surrey 187-5, KP now 85*

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Surrey
    Pietersen fifty off 66 balls with 7 fours. Inevitable really. Surrey 129-3 in the 42nd over, with the partnership with Somerset old boy de Bruyn worth 56.

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Surrey
    Surrey 84-3 off 30 overs, with Harinath caught at slip off Dockrell for 21 just before the break. Pietersen has ridden his luck in getting to 23, surviving a couple of close lbw shouts, but he's still there with power to add this afternoon.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Surrey 44-2 in the 20th over, with Burns having played on for 23 to give Mahmood his first wicket for Somerset since signing on loan from Lancashire. KP has walked out at number 4 to mainly applause with a few boos. Conditions look made for him.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Surrey 12-1 in the 8th over, with Ansari leg before to Kirby for three, having already survived a big appeal for a catch behind off the same bowler. Harinath has joined Burns with the pitch helping the seamers and batting not easy.

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Alex Barrow deputises for the injured Nick Compton. For Surrey, Rory Hamilton-Brown is omitted for "cricketing reasons", and Gary Wilson keeps wicket in place of Steve Davies, who is unwell but is also nursing a finger injury. Meaker and Lewis return

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  • Team News - Somerset v Surrey
    Somerset: Trescothick (c), Suppiah, Barrow, Hildreth, Buttler (w), Jones, Trego, Thomas, Dockrell, Mahmood, Kirby; Surrey: Burns, Ansari, Harinath, Pietersen, De Bruyn, Roy, Wilson (w), Batty (c), Kartik, Lewis, Meaker

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  • Surrey won the toss - Somerset v Surrey
    Surrey win toss and bat - sunny and dry at Taunton

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Match abandoned at Taunton to the dismay of both teams. Surrey finish on 15 points in Group B and Somerset 14. Hampshire already on 15 and likely to get at least one more at rainy Durham. It's a weekend to remember for them.

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Inspection imminent at Taunton with both teams hoping some sort of game is possible. Surrey 29-1 from 4.3 overs as it stands and KP one of the not out batsmen.

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    It's still raining at Taunton and the chances of a resumption look slim. But, with both sides needing a win to stand a chance of reaching the semi-finals, they will surely wait and give it every chance.

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Rain at Taunton with Surrey 29-1 after 4.3 overs. Pietersen has already struck two fours and is on 11, Considering the forecast it's amazing the game has started at all.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Surrey
    Surrey 14-1 with Davies having fallen to Trego for 4, caught by Dockrell on his return from the Under-19 World Cup. That has brought a certain Mr Pietersen to the crease - and he has survived his first ball!

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  • Team News - Somerset v Surrey
    Somerset: Trescothick (capt), Trego, Jones, Hildreth, Buttler (wkt), Barrow, Gregory, Thomas, Dockrell, Waller, Kirby.
    Surrey: Davies (wkt), Roy, Pietersen, Wilson, Spriegel, De Bruyn, Ansari, Batty (capt), Kartik, Meaker, Lewis.

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  • Somerset won the toss - Somerset v Surrey
    The home side have elected to field with rain forecast.

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  • Somerset v Surrey
    Despite some rain during the morning, the match is due to start at 2pm and will be 38 overs per side.

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Yorkshire 24-1 (3.1) Gale bowled by Mascarenhas for 15 via an inside edge

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  • Interval - Hampshire v Yorkshire
    Hampshire finish on 150-6. Katich run out with the final ball of the innings. I think it is dead even. There are some suggestions that Dimitri Mascarenhas has a shoulder problem, which could be key.  

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  • Hampshire v Yorkshire
    Two overs to go for the Royals, who are 130-4. Katich 13 and Ervine 21. 

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Yorkshire
    A couple of quick wickets, and big ones for Yorkshire. Adams holed out to long-off as Rich Pyrah strikes and then most recently Neil McKenzie is trapped lbw by Azeem Rafiq. 76-3 in the 12th. 

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  • Hampshire v Yorkshire
    At the halfway stage, both sides will be reasonably satisfied. Hampshire are 62-1. Jimmy Adams is 36 not out and James Vince 13. Pitch getting slower and taking turn.  

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  • Hampshire v Yorkshire
    The fourth over has brought the first wicket of the match as Ryan Sidebottom bowls Michael Carberry. It's 25-1 in the fifth now. 

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  • Team News - Hampshire v Yorkshire
    HANTS: Carberry, Adams, Vince, McKenzie, Katich, Ervine, Dawson, Mascarenhas (c), Wood, Bates (w), Briggs. YORKS: Gale (c), Jaques, Root, Bairstow (w), Miller, Ballance, Bresnan, Pyrah, Rafiq, Sidebottom, Ashraf.

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  • Hampshire won the toss - Hampshire v Yorkshire
    Dimitri Mascarenhas has opted to have a bat first. 

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  • Result - Hampshire v Somerset
    Hampshire win by six wickets with as many balls to spare to set up tonight's final with Yorkshire (6.45pm) and also qualify for Champions League. Katich and Ervine, who finished on 32 not out and 34 not out respectively, shared an unbroken 54 in 6.4 overs.

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  • Hampshire v Somerset
    Hampshire are heading for victory. At 100-4 after 16.3 overs, they need 26 from 21. Katich is playing a crucial role on 26 not out.

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Hampshire are going to have to do it without McKenzie, however. He has just been trapped lbw by Lewis Gregory. 72-4 in the 13th. 

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  • Hampshire v Somerset
    Hampshire need 54 off eight overs here with Simon Katich on 13 and Neil McKenzie on 10. 

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Somerset have a sniff having claimed two wickets in the last seven balls. James Vince was bowled by Max Waller and Michael Carberry (33) was run out by a combination of Craig Kieswetter and Peter Trego. 52-3 after eight and a half. 74 to win. 

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Catch of the day from Buttler at mid-wicket, where Jimmy Adams has gone to a spectacular diving catch. Kirby the bowler. 33-1

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  • Interval - Hampshire v Somerset
    Somerset 125-6, Kieswetter 63 from 58 balls. Looks like a Hampshire v Yorkshire final at this stage...

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  • Landmark - Hampshire v Somerset
    Kieswetter has a 51-ball fifty after hitting his third four against Ervine. 99-5

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Lewis Gregory run out  for 9 by Jimmy Adams from long-off. Somerset 90-6

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Trego lbw to Ervine playing across line before the pair collide mid-wicket... 58-5

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Now Buttler has played on against Ervine's third ball, gone for a run-a-ball 16. Somerset 54-4 (10.3)

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  • Hampshire v Somerset
    Miserly spell from Mascarenhas, 2-11 from his 4 overs. 35-3 (8)

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    James Hildreth bowled round his legs, Briggs has a wicket with his 2nd ball. 30-3 

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  • Hampshire v Somerset
    Excellent powerplay for Hampshire, Somerset restricted to 29-2 (6).

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Spectacular start from Dimi Mascacrenhas, Trescothick has now played on for just 12. 22-2

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Mascarenhas has struck with his first ball, Levi slogging to mid on. 6-1 

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  • Team News - Hampshire v Somerset
    Somerset: Kieswetter, Levi, Trescothick, Hildreth, Buttler, Trego, Gregory, Suppiah, Thomas, Waller, Kirby

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  • Team News - Hampshire v Somerset
    Hampshire have  replaced Australia's Glenn Maxwell with the fit-again Michael Carberry: Adams, Vince, Carberry, Katich, McKenzie, Ervine, Dawson, Masarenhas, Wood, Bates, Briggs

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  • Hampshire won the toss - Hampshire v Somerset
    Hampshire have asked Somerset to have a bat for this repeat of last year's semi-final

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Sussex
    The weather was the only winner at Taunton as hopes of a restart have been abandoned and a fine match has ended in a draw. Sussex take 8 points and Somerset 7.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    Play is due to restart at 5.10pm so we could yet have an exciting finish. Sussex 115-5, requiring 49 to win.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    Another rain break at Taunton with Sussex 115-5 and tantilisingly 49 short of their target.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex 114-5 and now needing only 50 to win, with Wells on 22.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    Play is due to restart at 2.50pm with all three results still possible. Sussex 98-5 requiring a further 66 to win.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex 98-5 and game on. Rehman has struck again by having Yardy picked by by Trescothick and 66 are still needed. Now the promised rain has arrived and we can only hope it doesn't ruin a terrific match.

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex 96-4 and still favourites if the weather holds. The visitors have adopted a more cautious approach since Wright's dismissal, but Yardy and Wells have added 24 priceless runs. Trego has 3-60 and needs two more wickets to reach 50 for the first time.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex 72-4 and this is getting interesting. Rehman got in on the act by sending back Goodwin for a duck and now Trego has taken revenge on Wright by bowling him for 22. Somerset will be sniffing an opportunity with 92 still needed.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Credit skipper Trescothick for keeping Trego on after Wright's onslaught. He has just bowled Nash for 26 after tying him down with four dot balls. Sussex 71-2.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    The tactic of sending Wright in early is paying off. He has just taken 3 fours and a six off a Trego over and Sussex are on the charge at 70-1, needing a further 94.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex have sent in Luke Wright at three presumably in the quest for quick runs. A thunderstorm is forecast for lunchtime.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Somerset have broken through with Joyce caught behind off Trego for 24 to make it 44-1. Sussex are still firm favourites but may have to bat at a quicker than comfortable rate to get home before the rain returns.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    Off and running at Taunton where Joyce has just taken seven off an over from Trego and Sussex have moved to 38 without loss, needing a further 126.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    The rain has relented, though for how long is anyone's guess and the plan is to start at midday with 16 overs lost. Sussex may then face a race against time to complete victory while the weather holds.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    As expected it has been raining at Taunton and the covers are on. Heavier stuff is forecast for later and Sussex could be in for a frustrating day as they chase the remaining 133 runs required for victory with all ten wickets in hand.

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex 31 without loss, needing a further 133 to win, and no doubt about to keep fingers and toes crossed over the weather tomorrow. The forecast is for light rain at 10am becoming heavy by 1pm.

    23/08/2012 (272 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex are chasing 164 to win after bowling out Somerset for 195, Panesar taking 6-77 for match figures of 13-137. He deserves to be the match-winner. Sussex 14 without loss.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Rehman bowled by Nash slogging for 15 and the main threat to Sussex could the bad weather forecast for tomorrow. Somerset are 184-9 and leas by 152.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Somerset 178-8 with Mahmood bowled for 13 by Panesar, who now has 5-66 and match figures of 12-126. Mahmood played an immaculate looking forward defensive shot had his middle stump uprooted. Panesar is turning the ball with even his quicker deliveries.

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  • Essex v Lancashire
    Both Essex openers find the boundary in the opening 2 overs, Pettini off Chapple and Westley twice  off Shahzad, Essex 14 for 0 from 2 overs.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Hildreth has gone to a poor shot, caught at long-off trying to launch Panesar at a time when his side needed greater responsibility. He made 18 and was the last of Somerset's recognised batsmen. They are 165-7 with a lead of 133.

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  • Essex won the toss - Essex v Sussex


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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    This is now a game Sussex should not lose. Trego has become a tenth victim of the match for Panesar, lbw playing back for one, and the visitors are through to the tail. Somerset 148-6 and 116 ahead.

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  • Somerset News
    Nick Compton has been diagnosed with a prolapsed disc and is out of T20 Finals Day on Saturday. Alfonso Thomas (hamstring) and Max Waller (intercostal muscle) are making good progress and could well be fit. Squad of 15 will be announced tomorrow.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex on top with Somerset 144-5 and only 112 ahead. Barrow has fallen lbw to Panesar for 10 and home hopes now rest largely on Hlldreth and Trego.

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  • TEA - Somerset v Sussex
    Somerset 134-4 and leading by 102 in what is turning out to be a fascinating game. Sussex won't want to chase many more than 200 with the ball turning at both ends, but they may not have to if Nash and Panesar keep the pressure on.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Two in quick succession. Jones was bowled by Nash for 14, playing back when he should have been forward. Now Buttler has just gone, caught behind off Nash for 11, to leave Somerset 131-4 and leading by 99.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Somerset 106-2 .and leading by 74 after the soft dismissal of Suppiah whose back-foot forcing shot off Anyon went straight to Yardy at short cover. The opener had made 59

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Sussex
    Arul Suppiah has reached a 69-ball half-century and celebrated it with a six off Monty Panesar over mid-wicket. Somerset are 95-1 and leading by 63.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    The prize wicket of Trescothick hass fallen to Panesar to leave Somerset 84-1, with a lead of 52. The Somerset captain advanced down the pitch and was caught at slip off an arm-ball for 38.

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Sussex
    Somerset 29-0, trailing by only three runs and well in the game. Suppiah has been dropped by Joyce at third slip off Magoffin. Panesar has already entered the attack and surely holds the key to his side's prospects.

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  • Interval - Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex bowled out for 279, with a lead of 32 thanks largely to Brown (52) and Khan (57 not out). Khan and Panesar (20) added 32 for the last wicket after the ninth had fallen with the scores level. The match is evenly poised with Sussex to bat last.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Sussex
    Brown fell to Rehman's left-arm spin for a valuable 52 but Amjad is playing a vital batting role too - he has just hit Steve Kirby straight for six to complete a 45-ball fifty - and Sussex, on 265-9, now lead by 18

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    Ben Brown and Amjad Khan have rallied Sussex to 213-7 after the early loss today of Steve Magoffin to Pete Trego which left the visitors on 178-7. Brown is 43 not out and Amjad has gone quickly to 20 not out

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  • WICKET - Warwickshire v Middlesex
    Chris Wright bowled heaving at Murtagh. Warwickshire 333 all out and a handy lead of 46

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex 161-6 and in a spot of bother with the pitch taking increasing turn. Somerset will happily take any first innings lead and at 86 behind the visitors need a good day tomorrow.

    22/08/2012 (273 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex 146-6 and Wright none too impressed to be given out lbw to Hussain for 22, clearly thinking the ball had struck him too high. Somerset enjoying a good final session.

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  • Somerset News
    ECB have announced that Craig Kieswetter will not be available for Somerset's last three Championship games and that Jos Buttler will not be available for the final two. Both players will feature in T20 Finals Day on Saturday

    22/08/2012 (273 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex 122-5 with Wells having carelessly clipped a catch to mid-wicket off Rehman having battled away for 125 balls to make 28. Yardy was earlier lbw to Kirby for 18 and Somerset are on top.

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  • TEA - Somerset v Sussex
    Sussex 69-3 off 28 overs with their innings having ground to a halt against the accurate Trego who has bowled 14 overs for 28 runs and Rehman, who has conceded only two runs from six overs.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Rehman has struck for Somerset, having Goodwin caught at slip by Trescothick for 17 to make Sussex 68-3. The batsmen had been bogged down against the accuracy of the Pakistan left-arm spinner and Peter Trego. Rehman 1-1 from five overs.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    It's all happened since lunch with Panesar completing figures of 7-60 as Somerset failed to add and were bowled out for 247. Sussex then breezed to 45 before Hussain had Nash caught at mid-wicket for 31. On the same score Joyce fell to Trego. Sussex 52-2.

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Sussex
    Somerset 247-8 after a fascinating morning. Sussex have a new ball due, but the old one is turning. Trego was bowled by Panesar with a delivery that kept very low and Rehman fell lbw to Nash off the last ball before lunch. Monty has 5-60. 

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Nash has taken the key wicket of Trescothick, caught behind trying to withdraw his bat. The Somerset skipper made 123 and will take some comfort from the fact that the ball is turning, something that will interest new batsman Abdur Rehman. 241-6.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    A fourth wicket for Panesar as Barrow, on seven, is caught at short-leg. Somerset 213-5, with Trescothick on 110, and the game evenly poised.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Buttler has carelessly lofted Panesar to deep mid-off and departed for 25 to leave Somerset 199-4 in the 63rd over. Monty has 3-46 and is in his 20th over.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Sussex
    Trescothick has reached his 50th first class century off 167 balls, with 18 fours. Pointedly there was no applause from the Sussex fielders, who felt he should have been given out on 60 yesterday. He looks in the form for a big hundred. Somerset 194-3.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    Prompt start at Taunton where Marcus Trescothick needs 11 more runs to complete his 50th first class century. Somerset begin on 175-3 loff 51 overs.

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Sussex
    No more play at Taunton today. After two inspections the umpires have decided it is too wet. Somerset 175-3 off 51 overs, with Trescothick 89 not out.

    21/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Sussex
    Inspection at 5.30pm at Taunton where the outfield has been soaked by heavy rain since 3pm.

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  • TEA - Somerset v Sussex
    Somerset 175-3, with Trescothick 89 and Buttler 17. Panesar has 2-44 from 17 overs. The rain has stopped but the outfield is saturated so it's anyone's guess how much more play there will be today.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    It's going to be a lengthy hold-up at Taunton where the rain has become heavier and the skies have closed in. The heavy covers are on and there are puddles developing on the outfield.

    21/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Sussex
    It's raining at Taunton with Somerset 175-3 and Trescothick 89 not out. Some black clouds are moving across the ground, but hopefully it will be only a shower.

    21/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Sussex
    Somerset have lost Hildreth since lunch, caught behind trying to square cut Panesar having made 23. The home side are 162-3, with Trescothick still there on 78.

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Sussex
    Somerset 124-2 off 31 overs with Trescothick unbeaten on 65 after surviving a confident appeal for a catch at short-leg by Nash off Panesar on 60. A few verbals were exchanged after it was turned down and it could prove a big moment in the game.

    21/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Somerset v Sussex
    Trescothick has reached the half-century that looked likely from the moment he took guard, off 65 balls, with 11 fours. Somerset 95-2.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Panasar struck with his fourth ball as Jones, on 26, drove a simple catch to point. Somerset 90-2 in the 21st over with Trescothick going ominously well on 46.

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  • Somerset v Sussex
    Luke Wright has just conceded 20 from his second over, including 4 fours, one of them off a no-ball. Somerset 66-1 in the 18th over, with Trescothick 36 and Jones 22.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Sussex
    Arul Suppiah has paid the penalty for an airy drive, which saw him bowled by Steve Magoffin for two. Somerset are 18-1 in the seventh over, with Trescothick on 12.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Sussex
    Somerset: Trescothick (capt), Suppiah, Barrow, Hildreth, Buttler (wkt), Jones, Trego, Rehman, Kirby, Mahmood, Hussain.
    Sussex: Nash, Joyce (capt), Wells, Goodwin, Yardy, Wright, Brown (wkt), Magoffin, Anyon, Khan, Panesar.

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  • Somerset won the toss - Somerset v Sussex
    Marcus Trescothick elected to bat on a warm morning, not doubt thinking the pitch will aid Abdur Rehman increasingly as the game progresses and batting last will be no picnic.

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  • South Africa beat England to go No.1
    South Africa went to the top of the Test rankings after winning a magnificent, unpredictable Test by 51 runs. England went down blazing to 294 all out, with Vernon Philander's five-for finally settling it in his team's favour.

    20/08/2012 (275 days old) | Read more
  • Saj Mahmood joins Somerset on loan
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset have signed Saj Mahmood on loan from Lancashire until the end of the season.

    20/08/2012 (276 days old) | Read more
  • Scotland v Somerset
    That's it, the rain is setting in so the match has been given to Somerset, winners by 53 runs on D/L method. Big points for them.

    19/08/2012 (276 days old) | Read more
  • Scotland v Somerset
    Rain has sent the players off with Somerset in sight of victory. Jos Buttler has 29 off 17 and Somerset are 133-3 with just 31 needed from 17 overs. 

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  • Scotland v Somerset
    Arul Suppiah hits a 37-ball fifty as Somerset look to make short work of their target. 89-1 after 14 with another 74 runs needed for victory.

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  • Scotland v Somerset
    Somerset will be chasing 164 for victory after Scotland recovered 104-8 to post 163. Preston Mommsen made a crucial 67, 47 more runs than the next highest scorer. Somerset will fancy a vital victory here.

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  • Scotland v Somerset
    Preston Mommsen and Safyaan Sharif have staged a recovery for Scotland, posting 40 for the ninth wicket with six overs to go in the innings.

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  • Scotland v Somerset
    Halfway through the overs and Somerset are all over Scotland. All five Somerset bowlers have taken wickets and Scotland are struggling on 94-6.

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  • Scotland v Somerset
    10 overs gone and Somerset have made two early inroads. Trego and Kirby have removed the openers Flannigan and MacLeod. 31-2.

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  • Scotland won the toss - Scotland v Somerset
    It's a big game for Somerset in the CB40 against bottom-of-the-table Scotland. But Scotland have won the toss and Somerset are bowling. They won't mind chasing though.

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  • Somerset hit by Pakistan call for Rehman
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset’s new overseas signing Abdur Rehman has been called up by Pakistan to play in three one-day internationals against Australia.

    15/08/2012 (280 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset News
    Abdur Rehman to miss Championship game with Surrey at Taunton, starting on August 28, after being called up by Pakistan for 3 one-day internationals against Australia at the end of the month.

    15/08/2012 (280 days old) | Read more
  • Pietersen apologises to ECB
    Kevin Pietersen has reportedly apologised to the ECB for allegedly sending derogatory text messages to members of the South African dressing room

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    It's all over here, James Vince lbw to Hussain for a magnificent 95. Hampshire lose by 50 runs and face Surrey, their nearest rivals at the top of Group B, in their penultimate game on Sunday.

    14/08/2012 (281 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Danny Briggs has played on against Kirby for a six-ball duck. 170-9

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Riazuddin run out, Hampshire 168-8. Vince is joined by Briggs. 61 required from 38 balls

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    James Vince is running out of partners. Chris Wood bowled by Gemaal Hussain for a three-ball duck. 165-7  

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    An animated Steve Kirby celebrates the wicket of Michael Bates, comprehensively bowled for 16.... Hants 162-6 in the 31st, requiring another 66

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Liam Dawson has holed out against Arul Suppiah, sweeping to deep mid-wicket for 36 after putting on 73 with Vince. 122-6 in the 23rd

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  • Hampshire v Somerset
    A magnificent 50 from James Vince (39 balls) is keeping Hampshire in this game. He's put on 57 with Liam Dawson (14)since Ervine's dismissal reduced the home side to 49-4. Hants 97-4

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  • Hampshire v Somerset
    Hampshire 36-3 after the mandatory eight-over powerplay, Vince and Ervine consolidating.

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Hampshire have lost Jimmy Adams, Simon Katich and now Neil McKenzie inside the opening 25 balls of their reply. Trego is having another good powerplay, having claimed two of the wickets. 15-3 (4.1)

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  • Interval - Hampshire v Somerset
    Gemaal Hussain (18no) has hit David Griffiths for two sixes during a final over that cost 23 runs to fire Somerset to 228-8. A good effort from Griffiths until then, Sean Ervine (3-35) the pick of the Hampshire attack.    

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Chris Wood has continued Hampshire's impressive comeback in his first over back, trapping Jack Leach lbw for 2. 199-8

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Ervine has a 3rd wicket, Abdur Rehman has skied high to mid-wicket for 8.  193-7

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Briggs is delighted with the wicket of Buttler (51), who scooped a reverse paddle to Jimmy Adams extra cover. 180-6 in the 31st

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  • Landmark - Hampshire v Somerset
    56-ball 50 for Jos Buttler, he's winning the battle with his best pal Danny Briggs. Somerset 174-5 (29)

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Arul Suppiah is Sean Ervine's latest victim, out for 4 having driven straight to Neil McKenzie at mid-off. 146-5

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  • Landmark - England Lions v Australia A
    Australia A 300 up in the 92nd over

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  • Hampshire v Somerset
    Sean Ervine concluded the first half of the Somerset innings with the big wicket of James Hildreth, who chopped on for 19. 130-4 after 20.

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  • Hampshire v Somerset
    All 16 powerplay overs have now been bowled, with Somerset 115-3. Buttler and Hildreth at the crease, both on 11.  

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  • WICKET - England Lions v Australia A
    Nathan Coulter-Nile bowled by Harris for 24. He helped Paine add 51 for the eighth wicket. That's five wickets for the impressive Harris

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    David Griffiths has struck in his second over, bowling Chris Jones for 24 via an inside edge. Somerset 93-3

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Somerset
    Peter Trego has gone for a brilliant 61 (31 balls), caught at extra cover after making room to cut Danny Briggs in the first over after the powerplay. 80-2 

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  • Landmark - Hampshire v Somerset
    Sensational effort from Peter Trego to reach 50 from only 23 balls.  He has hit three sixes, including two against Chris Wood, and Somerset have 74-1 at the end of the opening eight-over powerplay, despite losing Marcus Trescothick for 2. 

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  • Hampshire v Somerset
    Table-toppers Hampshire made an early breakthrough after winning the toss against Somerset, with Marcus Trescothick going for 2. Peter Trego has launched a counter-attack however, and after seven overs Somerset are 62-1, with Peter Trego on 47 off 22 balls.

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  • TEA - England Lions v Australia A
    Australia A are 198-4 from  61 overs at the break with Joe Burns on 28 and Tom Cooper on 5.

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  • Landmark - England Lions v Australia A
    Phil Hughes 50 from 89 balls with eleven fours

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  • LUNCH - England Lions v Australia A
    Australia A 106-2 from 30 overs at lunch at Edgbaston. Ed Cowan 38 not out and Phil Hughes 37 not out

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  • Reed and Woodhouse Grange through to Lord's final
    The winners of the 2012 Yorkshire Tea Village Cup will come from Hertfordshire or North Yorkshire, after Reed CC and Woodhouse Grange CC won their semi-finals on Sunday to make the Lord's final on September 9.

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  • WICKET - England Lions v Australia A
    Liam Davis LBW to James Harris for 24 out of a rapid opening stand of 34 in four overs with Ed Cowan

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  • Result - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Somerset win by five wickets with more than ten overs to spare, Trescothick finishing unbeaten on 87 in a total of 209-5. A comprehensive win set up by the class of Rehman's bowling.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Rehman failed to match his heroics with the ball, falling to a catch at the wicket by Read trying to pull a ball from Carter, He made nine, Somerset are 187-5 after 27 overs and require 20.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Buttler bowled by Carter off stump for 26 just as he and Trescothick looked to be easing Somerset to victory. 175-4 in the 25th over and only 32 more needed.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    White has claimed a second wicket on a good day for left-arm spinners at Taunton. Hildreth caught at slip the ball after Trescothick reached his fifty off 30 deliveries with 7 fours and a six. Somerset 139-3 in the 16th over and still cruising.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Trego caught at mid-on off White for 26, made off 20 balls, with 5 flours. Trescothick is on 25 and Somerset 96-2 in the tenth over, sailing along merrily.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Kieswetter out, but not before adding 2 fours and a six off Carter, who responded by bowling him off stump with a full length ball. The England one-day wicketkeeper hit 44 off 23 balls. Somerset 57-1 off five overs.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Kieswetter has hit 4 fours and a six from the third over of Somerset's reply bowled by Patel. Those boundaries came from the first five balls and the final one was met by the most studious of defensive shots. Somerset 37-0 after three. Kieswetter 30.

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  • Who else will join the 'Compton club'?
    By Andrew Hignell
    A thousand runs in the County Championship – it’s the target most batsmen set themselves in the four-day competition at the start of the summer and also the yardstick by which comparisons are

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  • Interval - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Notts 206-9 and in the end grateful to Graeme White for 39 not out, having had their good start wiped out by Rehman, who turned the ball a lot from both ends during his eight overs. Not a typical Taunton pitch and an interesting game in prospect.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Now Rehman has 6-16. In his final over he has sent back Fletcher, caught at mid-off by Kirby. The Pakistan left-arm spinner's final figures are 8-1-16-6. Notts 183-9 after 37 overs.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Rehman has five wickets on his CB40 debut for Somerset, the latest victim being Ball, caught low at slip by Trescothick. Rehman 5-16 and Notts 177-8 off 35 overs.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    What is it with the scoreboards at Taunton? One has been out of action all season and today the other main one has given up the ghost. Sort it out Somerset.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Notts 167-7 with Mullaney caught behind for nine off another ball from Rehman that turned and gripped. Thirty one overs gone and Somerset on top. Much could depend on how Notts' spinners perform. Rehman 4-13.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Notts 143-6 in the 28th over and in danger of failing to take advantage of their good start. The ball is turning and Patel has gone for 22, caught behind advancing to drive Suppiah.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Hussain has a second wicket, clean bowling Read for ten with a ball that nipped back off the seam. Notts 133-5 in the 25th over.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Rehman has 3-12 having just had Voges caught at slip by Trecothick driving for one. Notts 113-4 in the 20th over.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Notts 109-3 in the 18th over. Lumb was caught on the mid-wicket boundary by Suppiah pulling a ball from Hussain for 41 and now Wessels has departed for 53  to an absolute ripper from Rehman which pitched leg stump and removed middle.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Hales gone for seven, leg before trying to reverse sweep Rehman, who opened up from the Old Pavilion End. Notts 19-1 in the fifth over.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Somerset: Trescothick (capt), Kieswetter (wkt), Trego, Hildreth, Buttler, Gregory, Suppiah, Rehman, Kirby, Hussain, Leach.
    Notts: Lumb, Hales, Wessels, Patel, Voges, Read (capt & wkt), Ball, Mullaney, White, Carter, Fletcher.

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  • Somerset won the toss - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    The hosts have elected to field with the weather sunny, but showers forecast.

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  • Cricket Diary: Yorkshire's wait, Surrey's stir
    By Richard Gibson
    Tim Bresnan is yet to be given clearance from England to play for Yorkshire in Twenty20 finals day – although he will be under family pressure to make sure he is available on August 25.

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Notts 176-5 at stumps, leading by 83, and the only winner the desperate weather over the first two days of a potentially absorbing contest. Somerset take 7 pts and Notts 6 pts.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Gregory has picked up two late wickets for Somerset, trapping Taylor lbw for 46 and then seeing Reid chip an easy catch to mid-wicket. Notts 168-5, leading by 75, with 15 more overs possible.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Hales has departed for 54, leg before to Trego for whom it was a 43rd Championship wicket of the season. Rehman is turning some from the River End, but time is running out for Somerset with Notts 120-3, leading by 27.

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  • TEA - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Notts 109-2 with Hales unbeaten on 49 and a 4.50pm finish in prospect. The visitors are 16 ahead.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Lumb has gone for 17, caught behind by the diving Buttler off Trego. At 89-2, Notts are still four behind with 41 overs remaining in the day. But in excellent batting conditions a draw and an early finish remain favourites.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Wessels has gone to a sixth catch of the match at second slip by Trescothick off Kirby. Notts have moved to 46-1 in glorious sunshine and should be able to bat out for a draw.

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  • Interval - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Somerset 249 all out, just one run short of a second batting point, with Hussain caught off bat and pad off Swann for 29. He and Kirby only ran a single when two runs were on in the previous over and paid the penalty. Somerset lead by 93.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Thomas caught at first slip off Phillips in the first over with the new ball. Somerset 233-9, leading by 77.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Hildreth caught at mid-on off Voges for 83 and Somerset's chance of forcing a win probably gone. They are 227-8, having also lost Rehman this morning and lead by 71.

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  • Finn incident prompts new instruction
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    County umpires have been told not to call dead ball if a bowler breaks the wicket at the non-striker’s end in his delivery stride as England seamer Steven Finn did in the Headingley Test

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Somerset 187-6. The home side have an overall lead of 31 at stumps on day 3, with James Hildreth 63 not out and Abdur Rehman on 12. Notts earlier 156 all out.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    WICKET - Graeme Swann has Peter Trego ct at the wicket for 8. Somerset 175-6, lead by 19. James Hildreth has 63, Abdur Rehman walks out on debut.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Lewis Gregory edges Franks thro' to Read for 1. Somerset have a lead of five at 161-5.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    WICKET - Jos Buttler edges Paul Franks to Alex Hales at slip. Out for 39 - Somerset 155-4, just one behind.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    50 for James Hildreth - 84 balls 9 fours. Somerset 150-3, trail by just 6.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Fifty partnership between Buttler and Hildreth takes Somerset to 114-3, only 42 adrift.

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  • TEA - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Tea at Taunton - Somerset 78-3 replying to Notts 156

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Andre Adams strikes again. Jones out, pulling to Ben Phillips at mid on for 28. Somerset 64-3.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Andre Adams traps Arul Suppiah lbw for 35. Somerset 63-2 replying to Notts 156

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    50 partnership between Chris Jones and Arul Suppiah. Somerset 52-1 in response to Notts 156.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Trescothick goes second ball, ct Adams b Phillips 0. Somerset 0-1.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    NOTTS ALL OUT 156. Last man Harry Gurney bowled by Steve Kirby for 0. Notts lost five wickets for 14 either side of lunch.

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  • WICKET - England Lions v Australia A
    Something to cheer the Lancashire supporters in the crowd and the Old Trafford players who are in the nets. Paine ct Bairstow b Kerrigan 19. Another Transpennine triumph. Very good catch by Bairstow, two-handed to his right. Aus A 217-4, 98 behind.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Andre Adams out first ball, ct Kirby b Hussain 0 Notts 154-9

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Graeme Swann presents Marucs Trescothick with his fifth catch of the innings, off Gemaal Hussain and they head for lunch with Notts on 148-8.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Ben Phillips out to Hussain for 0. Notts 142-7. Peter Trego taking the catch at third slip.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Notts 142-6 as Chris Read edges to Trescothick off Hussain for 52. A fourth catch for Marcus!

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  • WICKET - England Lions v Australia A
    Klinger's gone for 66, caught at short leg by Joe Root off Tredwell, a classic off-spinner's dismissal. Aus A 191-3 after 64.1 overs 

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    CHRIS READ 50 - 63 balls 10 X 4, 1 X 6, another battling innings from the Notts skipper. 137-5

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    ABDUR REHMAN's econd delivery for Somerset traps James Taylor lbw for 21. Notts 120-5.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Despite the early loss of Adam Voges this has been a decent first hour for Notts, adding 64 runs, with Read & Taylor together. 112-4

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  • WICKET - Warwickshire v Worcestershire
    Warwickshire slumped to 34 for five with Chris Russell taking two early wickets. Nightwatchman Chris Wright edged to Vikram Solanki at first slip and Darren Maddy to Daryl Mitchell at second slip. Russell had figures of three for 12 at that stage

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    VOGES OUT. A third catch for Trescothick and a third wicket for Thomas. Notts 48-4

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Good morning from Taunton. There's something wrong with the weather today, as it's glorious. There should be no problems in starting on time with Notts 48-3 after the opening two rain-ruined days.

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    A day of huge frustration at Taunton where a potentially important match is being ruined by the weather. Play did start again at 5.25pm, but only 4.2 overs were possible before the rain returned again. Notts 48-3 off 23.5 overs.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Play is due to resume at 5.25pm with 21 overs left in the day. Notts 42-3 and the clouds still threatening.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Play was due to restart at 4.40pm, but it's raining yet again. Pity the poor groundstaff forever removing and then replacing the covers. They are on again and it's anyone's guess whether there will be any more play today.

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  • TEA - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Notts 42-3 and the heavy covers on with tea being taken at 3.45pm. The skies are a bit brighter so we could get more play with a late finish.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    RAIN STOPS PLAY - Notts are 42-3, losing Lumb and Hales today, both to Alfonso Thomas.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Rain has stopped play again at Taunton, but not before Somerset grabbed two wickets, Lumb lbw to Thomas for 16 and Hales caught in the slips off the same bowler driving for 12. Notts 42-3 in the 20th over.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Play due to start at 2.15pm.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    NO PLAY BEFORE LUNCH Very wet after a lot of overnight rain and the umps have decided there won't be any play before lunch here.

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    PLAY ABANDONED FOR THE DAY - Notts 18-1 from the 8.1 overs possible. Wessels the man out for 6.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    RAIN STOPS PLAY. At the fall of Wessels' wicket the rain intensifies and the umps call for the covers. Notts 18-1 RSP

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    WESSELS OUT - Ct at slip by Tecothick off Trego for 6. Notts 18-1

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  • Team News - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Somerset: Trescothick, Suppiah, Jones, Hildreth, Buttler, Gregory, Trego, Rehman, Thomas, Kirby, Hussain. Notts: Hales, Wessels, Lumb, Taylor, Voges, Read, Franks, Swann, Phillips, Adams, Gurney

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  • Somerset won the toss - Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Marcus Trescothick wins the toss for Somerset and elects to field first.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Light drizzle in the air - they are holding fire on the toss. All very frustrating.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Subject to no more rain we are going to have a toss at 4.10pm, with a start at 4.40pm

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    We really don't appear to be getting anywhere today. The latest news is another inspection at 4pm.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Tea will be taken at 3.10pm and the umpires will look again afterwards, at 3.30pm. Not raining at the moment, so it's fingers-crossed that the bad stuff has now passed away.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    As the umpires were conducting their 2.30pm inspection another shower swept across the ground. Covers remain on and they'll look again / make a further announcement when it stops raining.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    The umpires have been out and had a look and will make a further inspection at 2.30pm. Still light drizzle in the air and prospects of any play haven't changed significantly.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    No major surprises here but umpires Ian Gould and Steve O'Shaughnessy have announced there will be no play before lunch.

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    As anticipated, the prospects of anything for a while seem fairly remote. Rain coming down very steadily at the moment. Just a few optimistic patrons in the ground - they may have a lengthy wait for any play. 

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  • England Lions v Australia A
    Good morning from Old Trafford where the players were limbering up on the outfield half an hour ago. However, this being Manchester, the imminence of cricket has brought on heavy rain. No news on teams as yet.   

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  • Somerset v Nottinghamshire
    Good morning from Taunton. Very wet at the moment and the forecast for the rest of the day doesn't look too clever. Somerset will parade new signing Abdur Rehman, whilst Notts have both James Taylor and Graeme Swann available.

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  • Somerset News
    Abdur Rehman to make Somerset debut in the Championship game against Notts at Taunton, starting tomorrow. The 32-year-old Pakistan left-arm spinner was expected to arrive last month, but had to wait for a visa to be granted.

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Somerset
    Match abandoned as a draw. Outfield still sodden. No one can really complain about the decision. Both Lancashire and Somerset take six points.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    There is to be another inspection at 4.15. However, the umpires have reported that the outfield is very wet - that much we knew - and that conditions have not improved. An abandonment beckons?  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    In a corner of the ground Ajmal Shahzad is playing Saj Mahmood at table-tennis. I wonder if either of them plans to podium or medal at Rio. 

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We are to have another inspection at 3.30 but the chances of a resumption are pretty slim.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Something of a first here. It is still raining very hard and not only is the outfield soaking, much of the press tent is under water too. The photographers' equipment is floating away. Outground cricket is such fun!

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We have a fair-sized thunderstorm going on at Aigburth and may be set for a considerable delay. Both umpires and groundstaff have been very efficent in getting the game back on but this rascal will test them. 

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset have got to lunch on 93-3, Compton 27, Kieswetter 21. An evenly-contested session. However, thunder is rumbling around Aigburth and rain threatens to wreck what promises to be a fascinating conclusion to this game.      

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Hildreth goes for 9, well caught by Agathangelou diving across from second slip to take the catch off Hogg's bowling.  Somerset are 67 for three. Chapple (8-4-16-1) has been replaced by Kerrigan. This is very good stuff. Compton's 23, Kieswetter two.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Trescothick's gone for 27, lbw playing across the line to Chapple. Maybe kept a smidgeon low. Somerset 48-2. Hildreth in. 

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancashire have just had a male voice choir of an appeal turned down. They thought they had Trescothick caught behind off Chapple. Peter Hartley didn't. Cue more double teapots than you'd see in a china shop. Somerset 48-1

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Horton's just dropped Trescothick off Chapple but it was a brutal chance, high to his left. Horton leapt, but still  only got his fingertips to it. Trescothick's now on 15, Compton nine, Somerset 32 for one. Already this is tense stuff.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Morning from Aigburth where Somerset have just begun their pursuit of 279 to beat Lancashire. This is indeed a crucial day for both sides. Compton's cut a four off Shahzad but also played and missed to the same bowler

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset 22 for one, need 257 to win tomorrow. Trescothick, Compton, Hildreth....Chapple, Hogg, Kerrigan.... One team will medal tomorrow evening.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset have made a poor start to their second innings and are 21 for one, Suppiah having fallen lbw to Chapple for four in the third over. Less than three overs to go now

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Prince lbw Trego 129. Barely a person on the ground, including the Somerset team, failed to applaud him off the ground. Lancashire 242 all out, Somerset need 279 to win, There are still eleven overs to be bowled tonight.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Now Prince is clubbing and scooping fours. He is 124 not out, Lancs are 233-9 and the lead is 269. Unimaginable riches this morning. Somerset may be thinking that if Prince can do it......... 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Shahzad lbw Hussain 5. Lancs 204-9. Still 22 overs to go here.  

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Somerset
    Prince reaches his hundred with an off drive off Thomas. Brilliant really is the word for his innings. Prince batted 274 minutes, faced 190 balls and hit nine fours. Lancs are 204 for 8, a lead of 240.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    RSP with Lancs on 198-8, Prince 97. Not many batsmen this season will have deserved a century more. They can be few more interesting reflections on the strength of the SA Test side than the fact that Prince can't get in it. The lead is 234. 

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  • TEA - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs 184-8 at tea, a lead of 220. Prince 86 not out. Leach 2-30, a very good effort by the rookie slow left-armer, especially since he was bowling to Prince in fine form.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Leach gets his revenge. Chapple, trying to force the ball off the back foot, is caught at slip by Trescothick for 14. 180-8.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs are now 179-7 and Chapple has just hit the first six of the match, thrashing Jack Leach into the cheery bunch congregated in front of the bowling green. Not that they were very cheery at 12.30 this morning. Prince 84 not out, the lead is 215.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    A Somerset breakthrough. Leach takes his first championship wicket when Hogg drives him to Kirby at deepish mid off. Hogg made 38 and added 98 with Prince, who's 69 not out. The lead is 185. 

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Somerset
    Prince reaches 50 by taking ten off a Trego over. It took him 173 minutes. He was dropped on six by Thomas. Lancs 129-6 and the runs are coming a little more freely now. Leach is on and bowling well on his Championship debut.   

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Somerset
    Prince and Hogg have now added 65 for the 7th wicket. Hogg (34 not out) has now batted for 95 minutes; it is only the second time he has batted for longer than an hour in the Championship this season. Lancs 115-6, a lead of 151. 

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset's bowlers are keeping a tight line here but, mirabile dictu for Lancastrians, they are being met with straight bats. Very straight in Prince's case, mostly straight in Hogg's. Lancs 99-6, a lead of 135. When will the lead concern Trescothick?  

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancashire reach lunch on 72 for six and you'd have got good odds on that when Cross was out 42 minutes ago. Prince has batted with excellent judgement for 27, Hogg is on 13. The lead's 108; what would a good target be? 140 minimum?   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancashire go from slump to farce. Cross run out for three and Lancashire are 50 for 6. Good stop and throw by the bowler (Thomas) prompted the misunderstanding. Fine cricket by Somerset incl. Kieswetter; Lancs not quite as good.   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Agathangelou bowled by Thomas for 5. Middle stump cartwheeling, AA playing an expansive drive. 41-5

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Having cut wildly at Thomas and missed, Croft attempted the same brainless shot two balls later and played on for 14. Lancs 31 for four, a lead of 67.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Prince dropped on six, a hard return catch to Alfonso Thomas with the total on 22. How much will that cost Somerset? Lancs are now 27-3 and edging towards mediocrity.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Shock at Liverpool where no wicket has fallen for 15 minutes. "It's our game," observes a Somerset fielder loudly. It certainly is at the moment. Lancashire 22-3 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Update from bedlam. Brown was playing no shot to Kirby. Lancs have reached the broad sunlit uplands of double figures. Somerset, as they did in the first dig, are bowling very straight. 11-3  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Chaos here.  Moore run out for one after being sent back by Brown. Moore drove straight, bowler Trego got a touch to it, Hussain (mid off) completed fielding. Moore was sprinting vainly back. Now Brown has gone too. Lancs 7-3 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Another top dollar start from Lancs. Horton plays on to Trego fifth ball of the morning. Tried to take the bat away but had to take himself away instead. 3-1, a lead of 39  

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Somerset
    Chapple bowls Kirby and Somerset are all out for 149, giving a Lancashire a first-innings lead of 36. something they would have more than settled for this morning. Chapple 3-38, Kerrigan 3-47.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Buttler lbw for 18 playing barely half forward and across the line to Hogg. Somerset 148-8

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Thomas lbw Kerrigan attempting to lap the spinner to leg. Stepped across stumps. Lancs 125 for 7 and the home side may well be batting again tonight.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Trego caught at point by Croft for 17 attempting to turn Shazad to leg and Somerset are now 122 for six.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    5.15 restart at Aigburth. 29 overs still to be bowled. The spectators will be delighted, I hope. This has been a top day's cricket.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We are to have an inspection at 5.00. The umpires in this match - Hartley and Llong - have been top notch. Out as soon as the rain stopped, regular inspections and information quickly passed on to the punters. That's the way to do it.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Well it's absolutely hosed it down here and the shower caught the groundstaff a tad by surprise too. Any further play must be in doubt, but that's what we thought yesterday. It's a shame because the cricket this afternoon has been high quality stuff. 

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  • WICKETS - Lancashire v Somerset
    Kieswtter's gone, caught at backward point by Horton attempting to hit Kerrigan to Tranmere. And also Hildreth, who lost his off pole to Shahzad next over. Somerset 89-5 and now it's rain stopped play. A mighty shower too.      

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Kieswetter has slashed Simon Kerrigan just above Agathangelou's right hand at slip - a technical chance? The debutant's slip fielding is highly rated at Old Trafford and he has displaced Horton when only one slip is required.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Simno Kerrigan has just had Nick Compton lbw sweeping for 22. The wicket ended a fine period of hard-fought cricket as Hildreth and Compton resisted an in-form Chapple and the other seamers. Somerset 54-3 after 23 overs.  

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Somerset
    Nick Compton is 13 not out and has therefore passed 1,000 Championship runs for the season.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    James Hildreth has just been dropped by Ashwell Prince at third slip off Ajmal Shahzad. He was on 13 and Somerset would have been 23-3. Going very quickly, of course, but at a catchable height. Somerset now 29-2 and Chapple is bowling his tripes out.

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset 6-2 at lunch. The locals are a little less mutinous, the visitors somewhat less cheerful.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Trescothick's gone and Somerset are 4-2. Chapple had the Somerset skipper caught in the gully by Moore. MT edged a ball he was looking to play to leg. Chapple may be getting the same degree of swing Trego managed from the River End. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Immediate success for Lancashire. Suppiah plays on to Chapple in the first over and Somerset are 1-1.   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs all out for 185, Kerrigan caught at slip by Hildreth off Kirby for one and Lancs lost their last five wickets for 56 in 17.1 overs today. Somerset have looked very good in the field; the batting may be more of a test.     

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Agathangelou is just out for a competent 24 and gets a good hand from the crowd. He was caught at slip by Trego off Kirby. Looked a well organised player. Lancs 179-9. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Thomas has taken three wickets in 30 balls, the latest of them Chapple, who drove him backward of square to Compton. Lancs are 163 for 8, Agathangelou 12.   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    A brief moment of Lancastrian optimism has been swiftly extinguished and gloom restored. Hogg c Compton (backward point) off Thomas for a bright 13. Agathangelou is 11 and has played safely enough. Lancs 154 for 7.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Under way on time at Aigburth, pleasant enough weather and a good crowd. Lancashire have lost a wicket without addition to their overnight score. Cross lbw, playing across a ball from Thomas 7. Lancashire 129-6 and we've had nine balls in the day.

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs close on 129 for five. The excellent Peter Trego finished with 4-34, including the key wickets of Prince (51) and Brown (39). Agathangelou is nought not out and will have learned a few things in the final 20 minutes.     

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    After three inspections we are to make a restart at 5.15. There are 22 overs to be bowled. Good to see the patience of the punters at Liverpool justified. 

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We are to have another inspection at 5.00 here, which is fair enough. Both groundstaff and umpires are working hard to get the game back on. The spectators who have waited are now sunbathing. If we do get on, it will be a tricky session for Lancs.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Mopping up operations have begun at Liverpool and the umpires are to make another inspection at 4.30. The diehards who have hung on in the hope of a restart could not have expected better news. Both groundstaff and umpires have got to work swiftly.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    It has rained big style in Liverpool and prospects of an imminent restart are nil. There is bright sunshine on the Wirral, though, and I don't think this rain has set in for the day. Whether we'll get any more play is another matter.   

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We are off for rain again here. Lancs are 91 for two, Brown 33, Prince 35, the pair having added 30 since lunch. Good watching, it was, too, but I suspect the rain has set in for a while. The groundstaff are hauling covers onto the wicket surrounds. 

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    A flurry of boundaries at Liverpool, two back foot drives by Prince and a pair of stroked/guided boundaries to point and third man by Brown. Lancs 87 for two. Kirby and Hussain bowling.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We are back on at Liverpool. Two overs have been deducted from the day's allocation.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Rain stopped play only four dots into the afternoon session at Aigburth. A scattering of umbrellas are up around the ground but the groundstaff are loitering by the covers, suggesting that the delay may not be too prolonged. Lancs 61-2  

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs are 61 for two at lunch, Brown 25 and Prince 15. Trego has taken 2-12 off 10 and Taunton-born Jack Leach has bowled his first over in County Championship cricket. It was decent enough, five dots and an edged two. He is on his way.   

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs 47-2, Brown having driven three lovely fours , two of Trego, one off Hussain. Trego has been taken off with figures of 10-7-12-2 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Horton lbw Trego 12. Lancs opener was on front foot but had not really got a big stride in. Lancs 28-2. Trego's figures are now 9-7-7-2. He has conceded runs off the 41st and 53rd balls of his spell. Lancs 31-2  

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  • Glamorgan v Gloucestershire
    Torrential rain at Swansea means the umpires have called an early lunch at 12.30 but with water now lying on the outfield we will be lucky to start much before tea.

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  • Cricket Diary: Miller's decision, Bumble's dragon
    By Richard Gibson
    Big-hitting David Miller has declared himself available for Yorkshire if they reach the Champions League – despite it meaning he will miss up to three first-class matches for his South African franchise

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Brown has just driven Trego for four and the Somerset seamer has therefore conceded his first runs of the morning off the 41st ball of his spell. Lancs 22-1. It's gloomy here and every run has to be fought for.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs 11-1. Moore ct Trescothick b Trego 2. Moore was pushing forward;  Trescothick made a tricky catch look absurdly easy. Trego's figures are now 5-5-0-1.     

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancashire have lost 12 of their last 14 home tosses in County Championship games. (Glen Chapple probably does not buy his family's lottery tickets.) Lancs 1-0 after three overs.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Teams: Lancs: Horton, Moore, Brown, Prince, Croft, Agathangelou, Cross, Shahzad, Chapple, Hogg, Kerrigan. Somerset: Suppiah, Trescothick, Compton, Hildreth, Kieswetter, Buttler, Trego, Thomas, Kirby, Leach, Hussain.  

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  • ..... won the toss - Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset have won toss and have decided to field. Trescothick plays his first game since April. Leach makes debut for Somerset, Agathangelou likewise for Lancs. Start at 11.15.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Good morning from a frankly autumnal Aigburth where we are to have a late start. This has been caused by some damp patches on the Liverpool outfield. Somerset have included 21-year-old left-arm spinner Jack Leach in their squad.  

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  • Somerset make approach for Rankin
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    Warwickshire paceman Boyd Rankin is on Somerset’s wanted list for next season.

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Somerset won by three wickets with 13 balls to spare, Meschede and Thomas seeing them home to a third successive group win.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Gregory bowled by Allenby for 39 and it's now 19 needed off 28 balls, with Meschede still to come but nursing a finger injury. Somerset 232-7.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Suppiah run out by a direct hit from Jones at the bowler's end. Somerset 223-6 with 28 required off 38 balls.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Not quite over yet. Compton has just chipped catch to mid-wicket off Allenby and departed for 53. Somerset 214-5 in the 32nd over and needing a further 37.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Glamorgan still in it with Buttler bowled by a full ball from James for 27. Somerset 158-4 in the 21st over requiring a further 93.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    The Dragons fighting back. Hildreth has dragged a ball from Cosker onto his leg stump attempting to sweep and departed for as single. Still the scoring rate is high and Somerset 130-3 in rhe 15th over.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Trego's savage exhibition is over. After smashing 81 off 43 balls, with 15 fours and a six, he has pulled a short ball from Cosker straight to Allenby at mid-wicket. Somerset 113-2 after 12.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Trescothick has gone for 14, lobbing a catch to Harris at mid-on off a slower ball from Jones. The bad news for Glamorgan is that Trego is already on 73, having reached fifty off 26 balls, with 11 fours. Somerset 98-1 after ten and well on course.

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  • Interval - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Glamorgan posted 250-9, thanks almost entirely to Cook, who finished unbeaten on 137, having struck 11 fours and 4 sixes. He was dropped on 108, but otherwise played superbly.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Cooke's first century for Glamorgan came off 93 balls, with 8 fours and 2 sixes. Never looked in much trouble and has heloed his side to 196-5 after 33 overs.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Glamorgan 188-5 in the 32nd and Wright run out for 9. Cooke, on 97, drove Trego to short cover where Trescothick pulled off a diving stop. Thinking the ball was past him, Wright set off for a single and was yards out of his ground as Trego broke stumps,

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  • Somerset v Glamorgan
    Update on Barrow injury is that he recovered in the treatment room at the ground after being knocked out, but will still be taken to hospital as a precaution. Glamorgan 132-3 in the 21st over with Cooke 66 not out.

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  • Somerset v Glamorgan
    Barrow has been taken off on a stratcher and will go straight to hospital. Glamorgan are 110-3 after 17 overs and Somerset now have their Academy Director and former player Jason Kerr fielding as a sub.

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  • Somerset v Glamorgan
    The games has been interrupted by a worrying injury to Somerset's Alex Barrow, fielding substitute for Meschede, who is off the field with a finger problem. Barrow crashed head first into an advertising board trying to prevent a boundary.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Glamorgan 65-3 after ten overs and a wicket for Waller in his first. Allenby, on 9, played across a leg-break and was caught one-handed off a leading edge by Compton at short cover.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Mark Wallace has gone for 19 after looking in good touch. He got a leading edge to a short ball from Kirby and lobbed a simple catch to Hildreth at short mid-wicket. Glamorgan 33-2 in the fifth over.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Glamorgan 7-1 in the second over with Rees having been bowled off an inside edge advancing down the track to Trego. A bit early for that sort of shot.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Somerset: Trescothick (capt), Compton, Hildreth, Buttler (wkt), Trego, Suppiah, Gregory, Meschede, Thomas, Waller, Kirby. (Kieswetter ruled out by stomach upset)
    Glamorgan: Rees, Walters, Allenby, James, Wright, Wallace (capt, wkt), Cooke, Harris, Cosker, Jones, Norman.

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  • Glamorgan won the toss - Somerset v Glamorgan
    The visitors have not surprisingly elected to bat first on a sunny afternoon at Taunton.

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  • Cricket Diary: Cardiff t20 beds crisis
    By Richard Gibson
    Supporters of Hampshire, Sussex and Yorkshire are already experiencing problems with restricted hotel availability for the Friends Life t20 finals day – a month before the event.

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  • Result - Somerset v Essex
    All over andSomerset reach t20 Finals Day for 4th successive year. Essex beaten for 27 runs, ten Doeschate skied to deep mid-wicket to be dismissed for a plucky 47 after Masters had been bowled earlier in the over by Lewis Gregory 

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Not good reading this for Essex follwers because Tim Phillips has just been caught at mid on for 8. Last hopes rest withRyan ten Doeschate who is 24 not out. Score 120-8 from 16 overs

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Graham Napier briefly lifted Essex spirits with successive fours but then skied Lewis Gregory to mid-wicket and into the waiting hands of Marcus Trescothick. Napier  trudged back to the dug out to leave Essex 93-7  in the 14th over. 

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Another departure as James Foster is caught and bpwled by George Dockrell for 26. Good catch by the slow left-armer diving forward to take the chance low down. 85-6 after 13 overs and Essex need 91 to win. 

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Having survived the early dramas, Alastair Cook is the latest casualty caught by Richard Levi taking a fine catch running from short fine leg to account for the England opener for 28. Essex in trouble 56 for 5 at the halfway stage.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Signs of desperation here at Taunton by Essex. James Franklin run out going for a second run and  beaten  by the throw from Lewis Gregory from 3rd man. He scored 4 and Essex 43-4 after 8 overs

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Another one bites the dust. This time its Owais Shah who had clubbed a 6 and then straight drive a 4 of Lewis Gregory before falling to Albie Morkel who had him caught at 3rd man for 13 by George Dockrell. 23-3 in the 5th over.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Having lost Mark Pettini in the the 2nd over, Essex have now lost Ravi Bopara for a duck to the second ball of the third over. 9-2. 

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  • Somerset v Essex
    Essex on their way attempting to score 176 for victory and a trip to the Swalec. They have lost their first wicket  to the last ball of the 2nd over, Pettini caught for 2 off Thomas picking out Dockrell at mid-on and Essex 9-1.  

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  • Interval - Somerset v Essex
    Somerset 175-6 and probably no better than par in the excellent batting conditions. There was only one six in the innings, but Hildreth's innings was a gem. Topley 3-27 from four overs.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Hildreth run out by a strong Phillips throw attempting a second run, but not before reaching a 33-ball half century with 4 successive fours off Masters. He went for 58 and Somerset are 159-6 after 18 overs.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Morkel never timed the ball in a scratchy innings of eight, ended by a catch at long-on by Cook off Masters to leave Somerset 118-5 at the end of the 14th over. Hildreth is 32 not out.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Another key wicket for Topley. Buttler was on 33 and starting to motor when lofting the left-arm seamer to long-off where Cook took another simple catch. Somerset 91-4 in the 11th over. 

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  • Somerset v Essex
    Correction: The successful bowler for the Levi wicket was Topley, who now has 2-16 from two overs.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Levi the latest to go, caught behind off a good length ball from Masters, with Foster standing up to the stumps and making it look easy. Somerset were 54-2 after the 6 overs of power play. They are now 56-3 in the seventh over.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Trescothick has gone just when he was starting to look dangerous, brilliantly caught by the diving Napier at short fine leg off Topley. Somerset 44-2 in the fifth over.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Essex
    Big start for Essex as Kieswetter hit the first ball of the match from Phillips straight to Cook at long-off. Somerset 5-1 after the opening over.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Essex
    Somerset: Levi, Kieswetter (wkt), Trescothick (capt), Buttler, Hildreth, Morkel, Gregory, Trego, Thomas, Waller, Dockrell.
    Essex: Cook, Pettini, Shah, Bopara, Ten Doeschate, Napier, Foster (capt, wkt), Franklin, Phillips, Masters, Topley.

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  • Essex won the toss - Somerset v Essex
    The visitors have elected to field first in hot sunshine under cloudless skies, with a packed crowd gathering.

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  • Somerset beat Durham by eight wickets
    Craig Kieswetter is in a mood to make a point ahead of the World Twenty20. He has just beasted Somerset to an eight-wicket win v Durham with a massive 19.4 overs to spare. He finished with 103 from 61 balls, as a target of 148 was hunted down with ease

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  • Somerset v Durham
    Durham recover, sort of, to post 147 in 34 overs. But Somerset are already flying. Trescothick, back in action, and Kieswetter, full of confidence after his efforts in the week, have added 27 in the first four overs.

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  • Somerset v Durham
    A 30-run stand for the ninth wicket between Mitchell Claydon and Gareth Breese has rescued Durham's blushes a touch. But Claydon is gone now, caught behind for 18. 129 for 9

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Durham's day is going from bad to worse. They've now slumped to 97 for 8, with 16 overs of their innings still to complete if they possibly can

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    A shocking start for Durham at Taunton. They've slumped to 34 for 4 in seven overs, with Peter Trego claiming 3 for 17.  The only man into double figures so far is Mark Stoneman, who was caught and bowled for 17

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  • An unwanted century for Yorkshire
    By Andrew Hignell
    Yorkshire have set an unwanted record in this soggy summer, becoming the first county to top 100 hours of lost cricket in the LV= County Championship.

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  • Result - Somerset beat Warwickshire by 1 wicket
    Keith Barker also removed Max Waller and had 5 balls at last man Gemaal Hussain, with just two runs needed, before Peter Trego clinched a thrilling win for Somerset by hitting the first ball of the final over, from Jeetan Patel, for 4. Trego 14*, huge win

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Remarkable finish at Taunton where 3 wickets by Keith Barker has suddenly given Warwicks chance of victory when all hope seemed lost. Kieswetter (152, 170 balls, 7x6 14x4) was ct behind, and wickets of Meschede and Thomas leaves Som 264-8: 7 to win

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    Kieswetter still going, on 144 not out with six sixes, and even though Jos Buttler has gone for a quickfire 24, with five fours, Somerset are closing in on what would be a tremendous win. At 245-5, they only require 26 more

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Compton out! (which sounds like a newspaper billboard notice from the late 40s and early 50s). Nick Compton caught behind off Woakes for 52. Stand with Kieswetter was 166 in 43 overs. Jos Buttler joins Kieswetter, with Somerset 181-4 

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Kieswetter's magnificent century, from 123 balls and with four sixes and ten fours, has pushed Somerset further towards their win target. He is now on 104, Compton is anchoring the chase on 49 and Somerset are 171-3... exactly 100 to go

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  • TEA - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Kieswetter is on 81 and Compton on 45 and their superb unbroken stand has so far realised 129. Somerset, at 144-3, need another 127 in the final session

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    Kieswetter is 58* from 67 balls, with a six and eight fours, and has dominated a fourth wicket stand so far worth 89 with Compton, who is 32*. Somerset 104-3

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    James Hildreth fell for 8 in the first over after lunch, edging Woakes to keeper Ambrose to leave Somerset 15-3. But Craig Kieswetter has come out fighting, hitting four fours already in his 19. Somerset 36-3.

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Warwicks firm favourites at Taunton. At lunch Somerset are 15-2, with Arul Suppiah also gone - bowled by Keith Barker for 2

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    And Somerset's victory charge has got off to a bad start: Alex Barrow out to the fifth ball of the second innings, with Chris Woakes striking a big blow for Warwicks. Somerset 0-1

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    Somerset need a tough 271 to win at Taunton after bowling Warwicks out for 124 in their second innings. A late flurry from Jeetan Patel (21 with 1x6, 3x4) and who will now be looking forward to bowling. Hussain finished with 5-48

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  • Trescothick to make Somerset return
    By Richard Latham
    Marcus Trescothick is set to make his long-awaited return to Somerset’s team in tomorrow’s Clydesdale Bank 40 match with Durham at Taunton.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Warwickshire wickets have been tumbling this morning, four of them in total and three to the impressive Gemaal Hussain. The paceman has removed Varun Chopra for 32, Rikki Clarke and Chris Woakes, for a third ball duck. Tim Ambrose also gone: Warwicks 83-7

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Lead is 212 for Warwicks, who are 66-3 at the close - setting them up for a declaration around lunchtime tomorrow and then the chance to bowl out Somerset a second time and clinch victory. Chopra 27*, Maddy 2*

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    Warwicks 61-3 in their second innings, stretching their overall lead beyond 200. Varun Chopra is holding things together on 24* but he has lost Westwood, lbw to Hussain for 22, Evans, caught off Suppiah for 9 and skipper Troughton run out for 1

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    Warwicks have taken complete control at Taunton, despite Nick Compton's best efforts. Compton batted four hours for 73 not out, but Jeetan Patel's 7-75 has dismissed the home side for 254 - a first innings deficit of 146

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Hildreth was caught low at first slip by Chopra off Rikki Clarke, for 7, but since then Craig Kieswetter has gone quickly to 25 from 27 balls, with five fours already, and Compton is still there on 32. Somerset 134-3

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Somerset 90-2, having lost Arul Suppiah just before the interval, caught at the wicket for a good 54 (69 balls, 8x4) off Jeetan Patel. Nick Compton, joined by James Hildreth, remains 23 not out

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    Three wickets for Alfonso Thomas this morning as Warwicks were bowled out for 400 after resuming on 391-7. Jim Troughton was out without adding to his overnight 132, Thomas finishing with 6-60. Somerset now 33-1 in reply, with Alex Barrow run out for 2 

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Warwickshire 387-7 with Troughton still there on 132 and three overs tomorrow to get the remaining 13 runs for maximum batting points. A terrific effort by the Warwickshire skipper whose double century stand with Woakes turned the day.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    At last a breakthrough for Somerset after a stand of 204 between Troughton and Woakes, who has gone for 107, chipping a catch to mid-wicket off left-arm spinner Suppiah. Troughton is still there on 117 and it's 366-7.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Warwickshire
    A century for Woakes with his 17th four, lifted over mid-on from a Waller full toss. Somerset look dejected and having picked up a fourth batting point, Warwiskshire have ten overs to complete a full set. 359-6 in the 101st over.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Troughton has reached a battling century off 231 balls, with 12 fours and a six, bringing up three figures with an extra cover driven four off Waller. Warwickshire are 333-6 after 94 overs.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Warwickshire
    A third batting point for Warwickshire who at 300-6 can think seriously about one or two more. Troughton (85) and Woakes (73) have looked untroubled since tea and Somerset have already turned to leg-spinner Waller after just nine overs with the new ball.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Woakes has completed a fluent half-century off 84 balls, with 8 fours. It says much about Somerset's depleted bowling resources - and Hussain's continued stuggles - that the second new ball has been taken by Trego and Meschede. 268-6 in the 82nd over.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Warwickshire
    A second batting point for the Championship leaders, secured by a glorious extra cover drive by Troughton off Hussain. Warwickshire 251-6 and the new ball due after one more over.

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  • TEA - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Warwickshire 244-6 and a lot happier than they were before an unbroken seventh-wicket stand of 82 between Troughton and Woakes, who have looked increasingly comfortable. With 75 overs bowled, Somerset will be hoping the second new ball does some damage.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Warwickshire
    A slow, but valuable half-century for Troughton, off 150 balls. He and Woakes are digging Warwickshire out of a hole and at 230-6 they could yet glean plenty of batting points. Woakes is on 45 and there are ten overs to the second new ball.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Clarke has hit a looping full toss from leg-spinner Waller straight back to the delighted bowler who took a straightforward catch. Warwickshire 162-6 and in trouble.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Warwickshire 161-5 and Ambrose gone for 18, caught low at second slip by Trego off Meschede driving. The sun is out and the bowlers are on top. Clarke has just joined Troughton, who is unbeaten on 34

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Warwickshire 138-4 off 41 overs, with Troughton unbeaten on 29, having been dropped on 12 by Trego in the slips off Meschede. Thomas has figures of 3-28 from 8 overs.

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  • Somerset News
    Marcus Trescothick has been dismissed for 42 in a second XI fixture against Essex. The Somerset captain is testing his fitness after ankle surgery with a view to being available for next Tuesday's T20 quarter-final against Essex at Taunton.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Now Maddy has departed for a duck, victim of another Kieswetter diving catch off Thomas, this time flying to his right in front of the slips. Warwickshire are 135-4 with lunch approaching.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Having narrowly escaped being caught behind down the leg side with the boundary that brought up his fifty, Chopra has gone for 93 to an indentical shot, with Kieswetter this time getting both hands to a diving catch off Thomas. Warwickshire 135-3.

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  • Patel named county cricket's most valuable player
    By Robin Hutchison
    Two wickets for 42 runs and an innings of 36 from 35 balls in a six-wicket Clydesdale Bank 40 win over Hampshire on Tuesday night

    19/07/2012 (307 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Somerset v Warwickshire
    A half-century off 83 balls for Chopra, who seems to make runs every time he plays at Taunton. His tenth boundary to bring up his fifty was a bit fortunate, glanced just beyond the diving Kieswetter, but other than that he has looked rock solid. 73-2.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Evans has gone for four, caught at third slip by Trego driving at a full ball from Thomas. Warwickshire 50-2 in the 18th over.

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    Prompt start for once at Taunton where there are grey clouds, but the morning has been dry. Peter Trego and Alfonso Thomas have taken up the attack for Somerset, while Varun Chopra (24) has been joined by Laurie Evans. Warwickshire 34-1.

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Warwickshire
    No more play at Taunton so Warwickshire will resume tomorrow on 27-1. More showers are forecast so who knows how much play we will get in the next instalment of this unforgettable summer.

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    There will be a further inspection at 4.15pm at Taunton where the outfield is still wet. Showers have been forecast throughout the day, but there is still hope of some action.

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    There has been no play since lunch at Taunton where Warwickshire are 27-1, but there will be an inspection at 3.30pm.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Westwood has been caught at second slip by Buttler off Trego for ten and Warwickshire are 27-1 after 10.4 overs. It's raining again and the players are taking an early lunch.

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    Rain stopped play at Taunton where Warwickshire have made a promising start and are 25 without loss off 9.5 overs. Varun Chopra loves batting at this venue and is 16 not out, with Ian Westwood on nine.

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  • Somerset won the toss - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Alfonso Thomas has not surprisingly elected to field on a grey morning and there will be an early test for a below strength Somerset bowling attack against a weakened Warwickshire batting line-up.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Somerset: Suppiah, Barrow, Compton, Hildreth, Kieswetter (wkt), Buttler, Trego, Meschede, Thomas (capt), Waller, Hussain,
    Warwickshire: Chopra, Westwood, Troughton (capt), Clarke, Evans, Maddy, Ambrose (wkt). Woakes, Barker, Patel, Wright.

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    Delayed start at Taunton where there have been showers during the morning. If there is no more rain the match should begin at 11.45pm.

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  • Result - Somerset v Scotland
    Scotland 146 all out and Somerset win by 60 runs to record their first CB40 win of the season. Meschede finished with 4-27.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    It's almost over. Meschede has taken his fourth wicket, with Coudie chopping a wide one onto his stumps, and Scotland ar3 143-9, still needing 64, with Flanagan 28 not out.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    It had to happen. Kieswetter came on to bowl from the River End and after conceding nine from his first over had Craig Wallace, a co member of the wicketkeepers' union, caught at long-off by Trego for six. Scotland 130-8 and needing a miracle.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Berrington's excellent effort has ended. On 40, he attempted to strike a six off Meschede and holed out to Dockrell at long-on. Scotland 101-6 and now require 106 to win from 15 overs.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Scotland 72-5 and just when they seemed set to make a game of it skipper Mommsen ruined some good work with a wilde slog at Meschede to be bowked for 12. Richie Berrington is on 26 and the pair had added 41

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Another wicket for Jamie Overton. Symes attempted to pull a short ball and skied it off a top edge to wicketkeeper Buttler. Scotland 31-4 and Somerset's 206 looks a long way off.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Scotland 25-3 and a deserved wicket for Overton. MacLeod, having been dropped by Dockrell in the covers off Thomas in the previous over, miscued a pull shot and was taken by the same fielder at mid-wicket. Overton has generated pace from the River End.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Somerset may not need their spinners. Thomas has struck again in his second over, Stander swinging across a full length ball and falling lbw for six. Scotland 13-2 and facing an uphill battle.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    The second ball of Scotland's innings saw Davey drive a low catch straight to Waller at short cover, the ball being taken no more than a couple of inches off the ground. Kieswetter is fielding at mid-wicket. 6-1 after the first over.

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  • Somerset v Scotland
    Somerset have just taken the field with Buttler keeping wicket, which probably means that Kieswetter will bowl his off-spin if required. He took two wickets in a Championship game earlier this season.

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  • Interval - Somerset v Scotland
    Somerset 206 all out in the 39th over and again well below par in a CB40 contest. Symes was the pick of the Scotland attack with 3-31 from 8 overs, well supported by Haq and Davey, who yorked Overton for ten to end the innings. A good game in prospect.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Waller run out for five by a direct hit from Davey at the bowler's end having miscued a reverse sweep and been called for a single by Overton. Somerset 197-9 in the 38th over.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Symes has produced an identical delivery to the one that dismissed Buttler to clean bowl Thomas for five and at 190-8 Somerset are in danger of not batting out their overs. Their consolation is that spinners Dockrell and Waller will relish this pitch.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Haq has claimed another lbw victim in Lewis Gregory for 23 and Somerset are short of what they would consider a par score even on a slow Taunton pitch. They are 188-7 with less than five overs remaining.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Scotland continue to prosper at sunny Taunton where Meschede has just fallen leg before to Haq for 14 and Somerset are now 166-5 in the 33rd over. Hard to tell what a good score is on a slow pitch, which has turned, but the home side will want 220-plus.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Left-arm spinner Symes has just produced a jaffa to bowl Buttler for 32, the ball pitching on middle and leg before clipping off stump. Somerset 142-5 with two new batsman in and by no means certain to achieve their first CB40 win of the season.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Hildreth has chipped a return catch to Symes to end a typically chirpy innings of 26 and a half-century stand with Buttler, who is going well on 32. Somerset are 140-4 in the 26th over and it could be worse because Gregory was dropped at slip first ball.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Now Kieswetter has gone as well, lbw on the back foot to Coudie for 56, having hit 8 fours and a six. Somerset are 89-3 in the 18th over and looking to Hildreth and Buttler to rebuild the innings.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Scotland
    Two in quick succession. Compton was caught behind off seamer Josh Davey, who three balls later removed Trego for a duck, leg-before playing across a straight one. Somerset 70-2 after 13 over with Kieswetter on 45.

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  • Somerset v Scotland
    Somerset 64 without loss after ten overs and progressing smoothly. Kieswetter has been the aggressor, moving onto 44, while Compton has dropped anchor for 18. The sun is shining and there is a decent crowd. It's almost like summer!

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  • Team News - Somerset v Scotland
    Change to Scotland team - Ali Evans in, Ewan Chalmers out.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Scotland
    Somerset: Kieswetter (wkt), Compton, Trego, Buttler, Hildreth, Gregory, Meschede, Thomas (capt), Waller, Dockrell, J.Overton.
    Scotland: Davey, MacLeod, Symes, Stander, Mommsen (capt), Berrington, Haq, Wallace, Goudie, Chalmers, Flanagan.

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  • Somerset won the toss - Somerset v Scotland
    The home side, seeking their first win in the competition, have elected to bat first with some blue sky amid the clouds and the forecast for at most light showers.

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  • Rankin lines up return in Ireland T20s
    By Paul Bolton
    Warwickshire paceman Boyd Rankin is set to make his return to senior action for Ireland in next week’s Twenty20 internationals against Bangladesh

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  • Close Of Play - Glamorgan v Somerset
    All off (again) - the umpires abandoned this CB day/nighter at 5.30, 50 minutes after the scheduled start. This is now the 13th day of the season that Glamorgan have experienced where there has not been a ball bowled all day.

    12/07/2012 (314 days old) | Read more
  • Glamorgan v Somerset
    Here we go again - yet another Glamorgan match looks set to be washed out. Umpires Rob Bailey and David Millns will inspect at 5.30. This CB40 match was due to begin at 4.40 but it's been raining in Cardiff all afternoon. This would be Glamorgan's fourth wash-out in 11 days.

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  • FICA supports legal action over unpaid BPL fees
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    Worcestershire batsman Alexei Kervezee, Northamptonshire wicketkeeper Niall O’Brien and Kent’s former Pakistan all-rounder Azhar Mahmood are among overseas players allegedly still owed money by

    11/07/2012 (315 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: More short stuff for Bairstow
    By Richard Gibson
    England have publicly dismissed Jonny Bairstow’s troubles against the short stuff sent down by West Indies as ‘just a few good balls’ but it is a weakness that they will have been privately concerned about

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  • Result - Somerset v South Africans
    An inevitable draw at Taunton with Somerset closing on 50-1, Alex Barrow unbeaten on 31. Steyn and Philander again impressed for the tourists and look set to give England plenty of problems. But this game will only be remembered for Boucher's injury.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    SA declared on 282-9 with Kallis choosing not to continue his innings. Amla (64), Duminy (53), Petersen (33 not out) and Morkel (38) all got useful practice, while Craig Overton took 3-1 in seven balls at one stage. Somerset 6-1 in their seceond innings at tea.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    It has been an emotional day at Taunton with Graeme Smith announcing Mark Boucher's retirement from international cricket by reading a statement from Boucher himself and then paying tribute to his team-mate. The cricket has been almost incidental.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v South Africans
    Amla has reached a painstaking fifty off 105 balls, with 5 fours, having been unbeaten on 34 overnight. Kallis retired not out 45 at the start of play and AB de Villiers made 23 before getting a thin inside edge onto his stumps off Trego. SA 146-3.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    Play due to start at 11am. Latest on Mark Boucher is that he has been discharged from hospital and will return home at the earliest opportunity. A replacement - expected to be Thami Tsolekile - will be announced tomorrow.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    Start delayed at Taunton because of rain. It is currently dry but heavy covers are on and more showers are forecast. Confirmation that Mark Boucher's tour is over following eye surgery last night. News on a replacement is awaited.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    Mark Boucher looks certain to miss the First Test, if not the whole series, against England, South Africa Team Manager Dr Mohammed Moosajee has said. He added:  "Mark has a laceration to the white part of his left eye. We will know more after surgery."

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v South Africans
    South Africans 96-2 replying to 312-8 dec with Amla 34 and Kallis 45. Kallis was dropped on 23 by Hildreth at slip off Trego, a sharp chance above his head, but perhaps the tourists were due a bit of luck on a day dominated by Boucher's injury.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    Not a great day for the South Africans. Graeme Smith's return to Somerset was cut short when he edged a ball from Hussain to give wicketkeeper Barrow a second catch, having made only ten. It's 39-2 in the 12th over.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    News on Boucher not good. The tourists have revealed that after seeing a specialist he will have surgery this evening to repair a cut to his left eyeball. The injury will then be reassessed. Rudolph has already fallen to Jamie Overton. SA 15-1.

    09/07/2012 (317 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v South Africans
    Early word about Boucher's injury is that it could well be serious. He is still at hospital and we await an official staetment. Craig Meschede reached a 67-ball fifty and several catches went down as Somerset ran up 312-8 before declaring.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    Jack Leach has just walked out for his Somerset debut while Boucher was being treated on the pitch. The 21-year-old left-arm spinner is a local boy from Taunton. Boucher may have been hit by the ball and a bail, suffering a cut close to his left eye.

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  • Boucher hurt in tour game
    Boucher has been forced to leave the field with a cut to his left eye. Hussain was bowled by Tahir and the ball apperead to flick the top of the stumps with a bail being hit into the wicketkeeper's face. De Villiers has taken over behind the stumps.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    Hildreth hit a single to cover off Steyn to bring up his century off 124 balls, with 14 fours and a six, then appeared to give up. He was dropped in the slips off Tsotsobe and then drove the next ball straight to mid-off. Somerset 244-6.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v South Africans
    Trego has gone for a superb 104, caught low at second slip by Kallis off Philander aiming a big drive. A deserved wicket for the seamer, who along with Steyn has been the pick of the bowlers. Somerset 215-5 after 35 overs, with Hildreth 83 not out.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    Trego has completed a 60-ball century with a sumptuous straight driven four off Morkel, who he earlier dispatched for 6 fours in an over. Altogether he has hit a six and 18 fours. Hildreth is 82 not out and the stand is worth 182 at 214-4.

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  • RAIN - Somerset v South Africans
    Rain starts falling after Somerset had added another 30 runs after lunch, with Trego just nine from a century. Play should start at 1.15. 195-4.

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v South Africans
    James Hildreth and Peter Trego will lunch well. They've taken Somerset from 32-4 to 164-4 in just 16.4 overs. That's an astonishing strike rate of 7.98 against a pace attack many people argue is the best in the world. 165-4.

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  • Somerset v South Africans
    Top recovery from Somerset, with James Hildreth and Peter Trego both bringing up fifties. They've put on 110 for the 5th wicket, with Morne Morkel going for 48 from his five overs - including six successive boundaries from Trego. Somerset 142-4

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  • Somerset v South Africa
    A great start for South Africa in their first tour match ahead of the England series. Somerset 37-4 after 12 overs in the two-day match, and they haven't helped themselves: the first two wickets, Arul Suppiah and Nick Compton, were run out.

    09/07/2012 (317 days old) | Read more
  • Soggy FLt20: a horror story
    By Andrew Hignell
    Today, on the morning after the completion of the Friends Life t20 group stage, TheCricketer.com can reveal the full horror of the disruption caused by bad weather to

    09/07/2012 (317 days old) | Read more
  • Friends Life t20: quarter-final draw
    Quarter-final matches: Notts v Hants; Somerset v Essex; Sussex v Gloucs; Yorks v Worcs. Ties to be played on July 24 or July 25

    08/07/2012 (318 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Worcestershire v Somerset
    A superb unbroken stand of 59 in 10 overs between Compton (42* off 66 balls) and Hildreth (35* off 33 with 1x6, 4x4) has guided Somerset to a 7-wicket win and a place in the quarter-finals. Worcs also qualify in third place, as Warwicks lost to Glam

    08/07/2012 (318 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Jos Buttler lbw to Moeen Ali for 13, after hitting Mitchell for six in the previous over, and Somerset 61-3 from 9 overs, needing another 59 from 11. Richard Levi also out for 19 following a short rain break, but Nick Compton is 23* and joined by Hildreth

    08/07/2012 (318 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Hughes finished on 45* from 50 balls as Worcs totalled 119-7 from their 20 overs. Worcs will have to bowl well if they are to deny Somerset a place in the last eight, and win one for themselves, even in seam-friendly conditions

    08/07/2012 (318 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Somerset on top in the big game at New Road - with Worcs struggling on 94-6 in the 18th over. Not even Phil Hughes, with 35* from 43 balls so far, has been able to break the shackles

    08/07/2012 (318 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Three wickets already for Somerset in this virtual eliminator at New Road. Put in, Worcs are 36-3 in the 7th over with Moeen Ali, Vikram Solanki and James Cameron already out. Phil Hughes has just been joined by his skipper Daryl Mitchell

    08/07/2012 (318 days old) | Read more
  • Time to end the Twenty20 debate
    By Mark Baldwin
    There is only one way to solve the debate about whether a dedicated mid-season slot or a season-long tournament is the best way forward for English cricket's ten-year-old Twenty20 Cup

    07/07/2012 (319 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Glamorgan v Somerset
    Match abandoned. The umpires - Neil Bainton and Mark Benson - called the game off at 7pm after heavy rain meant there was no chance of any play. Somerset now face a crucial final group clash with Worcestershire Royals at New Road on Sunday as they try to reach the last eight. 

    06/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Glamorgan v Somerset
    Familiar look to the Swalec Stadium - covers on and raining steadily. If this is called off it will mean that five of the Dragons nine matches have been no results.

    06/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • England Under-19 World Cup squad named
    By Paul Bolton
    Six Midlands youngsters have been included in the England Under-19 squad for the ICC Under 19 World Cup which will be played in Australia next month

    06/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Bath game latest victim of poor weather
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset’s Clydesdale Bank 40 game against Durham, scheduled to take place at The Recreation Ground in Bath on Sunday July 22, has been switched to Taunton

    03/07/2012 (323 days old) | Read more
  • Foster first keeper to win monthly FTI MVP award
    James Foster has capped a series of impressive displays to become the first wicketkeeper to win the monthly award for the FTI Most Valuable Player.

    02/07/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Yorkshire's T20 poser
    By Richard Gibson
    Yorkshire face the prospect of being without both their overseas stars if they extend their impressive Twenty20 Cup form beyond the group stages.

    02/07/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset hammered for the second successive game as they make only 119 all out, Daryl Mitchell taking 3-13 and Brett D'Oliveira 3-20. Director of Cricket Brian Rose warns there will be "serious financial implications", if Somerset fail to qualify from group.

    01/07/2012 (325 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset 72-4 after ten overs - 16 behind Worcestershire;s score at the same stage - and they look in trouble with both overseas players, Levi and Morkel, out. Daryl Mitchell is bowling well, taking the pace off the ball, and his side are hot favourites.

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  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset 51-1 after six overs with Richard Levi having already hit 3 fours and 2 sixes in his unbeaten 28. This has the makings of a very good game.

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  • Interval - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire's 173-7 included six penalty runs for Somerset's slow over-rate. The total looked like being more at one time, but is sure to be competitive. Hughes made 41 and skipper Thomas was the pick of Somerset's bowlers with 1-24.

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  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire 131-3 after 15 overs and still on course to set a stiff target. Phil Hughes has been dropped twice and is unbeaten on 26. Moeen Ali (47) and Vikram Solanki (33) laid the foundation.

    01/07/2012 (325 days old) | Read more
  • Abdur Rehman to join Somerset
    By Richard Latham
    Pakistan left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman is set to join Somerset later this month subject to a visa being arranged.

    01/07/2012 (325 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire 53 without loss after six overs, Moeen Ali leading the way with 34. The sun is shining a big score looks likely.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Worcestershire
    Somerset: Levi, Compton, O'Brien, Buttler (wkt), Hildreth, Morkel, Suppiah, Gregory, Thomas (capt), Dockrell, Kirby.
    Worcestershire: Ali, Solanki, Hughes, Cameron, Andrew, Mitchell (capt), Kervezee, D'Oliveira, Scott, (wkt), Lucas, Shantry.

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  • Somerset won the toss - Somerset v Worcestershire
    And unlike in Friday night's disaster against Gloucestershire, the hosts have opted to bowl first.

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  • Somerset News
    Pakistan left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman has agreed to join Somerset for the second half of the season. The club are waiting for a visa to be arranged and hope Rehman will sign in time for the Championship game with Warwickshire, starting on July 18.

    01/07/2012 (325 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Somerset v Gloucestershire
    Gloucestershire win by nine wickets with a massive 5.2 overs to spare after outplaying their arch-rivals in all departments. Marshall (66) and Howell (55) put together an opening stand of 115 to end any doubt about the outcome. Somerset's first defeat.

    29/06/2012 (327 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Gloucestershire
    Gloucestershire 53 without loss off six overs and well on the way to a shock victory. Marshall and Howell have had moments of fortune but also been quick to capitalise on some poor bowling. Somerset look off colour and need some inspiration.

    29/06/2012 (327 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Somerset v Gloucestershire
    Somerset have posted 140-8, normally be a totally inadequate score at Taunton. But spinners Murali and Young conceded only 38 runs from their combined eight overs and it is not a typical pitch. Could be a good game if the rain holds off.

    29/06/2012 (327 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Gloucestershire
    Somerset 67-4 off ten overs and Gloucestershire would be even happier if Batty had taken a chance offered by Buttler off Norwell on one. Morkel has just hit a huge six off Murali at the start of the 11th over and his stand with Buttler could be crucial.

    29/06/2012 (327 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Gloucestershire
    Somerset have made 47-3 from the six overs power play. Marshall took a fine running catch to dismiss Levi, but Gloucestershire's fielding has been poor. Still the visitors will feel encouraged, with Murali about to come on.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Gloucestershire
    Somerse.t: Levi, Compton, O'Brien, Buttler (wkt), Hildreth, Morkel, Suppiah, Gregory, Thomas (capt), Dockrell, Kirby
    Gloucestershire: Marshall (capt), Howell, Cockbain, Housego, A.Gidman, Fuller, Young, Batty (wkt), Saxelby, Norwell, Muralitharan.

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  • Somerset won the toss - Somerset v Gloucestershire
    The hosts have elected to bat first. The rain has stopped and a 5.40pm start is scheduled with the break between innings shortened to ten minutes. There are black clouds about and more showers seem likely.

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  • Somerset v Gloucestershire
    It's raining at Taunton and the toss has been delayed. The match is a sell-out as Somerset continue to buck the trend of falling T20 attendances, but the forecast is for showers and we are at best going to get a shortened game.

    29/06/2012 (327 days old) | Read more
  • Trescothick plans mid-July comeback
    By Richard Latham
    Marcus Trescothick is optimistic of returning to Somerset’s team before the end of next month.

    28/06/2012 (328 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset News
    Marcus Trescothick is optimistic of returning to action next month after reporting "real progress" towards recovery from ankle surgery. The former England opener says he will assess things in mid-July with an eye to playing secondXI or club cricket.

    28/06/2012 (328 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Northamptonshire v Somerset
    A thumping win for Somerset against the Midlands/Wales/West Group whipping boys Northants, by seven wickets and with 6.2 overs to spare. Kieswetter made 51 from 35 balls, and Somerset's qualification for the quarter-finals is almost certain already

    26/06/2012 (330 days old) | Read more
  • Northamptonshire v Somerset
    Richard Levi (out for 35 off 18 balls, 4x6, 2x4) and Craig Kieswetter have effectively sealed this game already for Somerset by adding 61 for the first wicket in 5.4 overs. Now 68-1 from 6.1, with Kieswetter 28 not out, Somerset are cruising

    26/06/2012 (330 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Northamptonshire v Somerset
    The 20-over Northants total of 115-6 looks woefully inadequate against a powerful-looking Somerset batting line-up. We shall see.

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  • WICKET - Northamptonshire v Somerset
    Northants are in trouble, at 85-5 in the 16th over. Alex Wakely, who has top-scored with 34, has just been stumped off Arul Suppiah, after George Dockrell had removed both Whites, Cameron and Rob, in a spell of 4-0-24-2

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  • WICKET - Northamptonshire v Somerset
    Put in by Somerset, the Northants innings has got off to a shaky start with both openers, Kyle Coetzer and Chaminda Vaas, falling to Steve Kirby inside the first four overs. But Northants have now moved on to 44-2 in the seventh over

    26/06/2012 (330 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset Team News
    Craig Kieswetter has been released by England to play for Somerset in tomorrow's FLt20 match against Northants at Northampton. But Albie Morkel is likely to miss the game with an injury sustained in South Africa's T20 series against Zimbabwe.

    25/06/2012 (331 days old) | Read more
  • Uneven pattern to t20 weather
    By Andrew Hignell
    Being  - roughly - at the halfway point in the group stage of the Friends Life t20 competition, it is an appropriate time to see how the weather has been affecting

    25/06/2012 (331 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Glamorgan
    A magnificent 53-ball century from James Hildreth won the game for Somerset with a ball to spare. He hit 15 fours and a six in a one-man batting show. Somerset remain unbeaten, despite being without 5 players on international duty. A terrific match.

    22/06/2012 (334 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Somerset v Glamorgan
    The Dragons have posted a challenging 178-5, scoring 122 off the last ten overs, Marsh leading the way with a brilliant 85 before being run out off the last ball of the innings. Steve Kirby was the pick of the home attack, taking 1-19 from his four overs.

    22/06/2012 (334 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Glamorgan
    Dragons 56-1 after ten overs, having scored only 31 from six-over power play. Marcus North caught and bowled by Max Waller for 12. Shaun Marsh and Jim Allenby just starting to accelerate.

    22/06/2012 (334 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Somerset v Glamorgan
    Somerset: Trego, Compton, Meschede, Buttler, Hildreth, Suppiah, Snell (wkt), Gregory, Thomas (capt), Waller, Kirby.
    Welsh Dragons: Marsh, North, Allenby (capt), van Jaarsveld, Walters, Cooke, Wallace (wkt), Cosker, Harris, Croft. Jones.

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  • Glamorgan won the toss - Somerset v Glamorgan
    The Welsh Dragons have elected to bat first on an overcast, but mercifully dry evening. As things stand, there is every chance of getting in a full game.

    22/06/2012 (334 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Warwickshire v Somerset
    And the result is a no result. That last shower was enough to force the abandonment

    21/06/2012 (335 days old) | Read more
  • Warwickshire v Somerset
    Off for rain again here. Somerset 59-1 in 7.1 overs. Only 11 balls were bowled in that brief passage of play

    21/06/2012 (335 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Warwickshire v Somerset
    Somerset 50 up in the sixth over. Meschede two off driven fours off Neil Carter

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  • Warwickshire v Somerset
    Play is due to resume at 8.33pm - don't ask why it can't be 8.30 - and it's now a 15 overs per side affair

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  • Warwickshire v Somerset
    A lot of rain has fallen in a short space of time and the square seemed to get very wet before the groundstaff had the chance to drag the sheets on. We can play an extra half hour which would mean a 10.15pm finish a late journey home for the very few youngsters in a thin crowd

    21/06/2012 (335 days old) | Read more
  • Warwickshire v Somerset
    Rain stopped play after 5.2 overs with Somerset 41-1.

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  • Warwickshire v Somerset
    Craig Meschede off mark with a hooked six off Keith Barker but it's started to raini again at Edgbaston

    21/06/2012 (335 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Warwickshire v Somerset
    Peter Trego well taken by wicketkeeper Richard Johnson running back towards the sightscreen from a top-edged pull off Chris Wright

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  • Warwickshire v Somerset
    Covers off at Edgbaston and the drizzle has eased.

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  • Warwickshire v Somerset
    The hover cover has gone back on at Edgbaston and it's started to rain again. It's not heavy at the moment but the outfield is saturated after several weeks of rain and it won't take much top up the high water table.

    21/06/2012 (335 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Warwickshire v Somerset
    Jim Troughton returns to captain Warwickshire after three weeks out with a back injury and Neil Carter makes a rare start this season in place of Paul Best. Former Gloucestershire wicketkeeper Steve Snell plays for a depleted Somerset who are seven light because of internationals calls and A Levels

    21/06/2012 (335 days old) | Read more
  • .Warwickshire.... won the toss - Warwickshire v Somerset
    and bowl

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  • Warwickshire v Somerset
    Grey and gloomy at Edgbaston and it rained heavily about 90 minutes ago. But the players are out there warming up and it looks like they are going to give it a go in front of a very thin crowd.

    21/06/2012 (335 days old) | Read more
  • Snell re-joins Somerset t20 squad
    By Richard Latham
    Steve Snell has been re-signed by Somerset to be part of their Friends Life t20 squad.

    21/06/2012 (335 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset News
    Steve Snell returns to Somerset's squad for tonight's FLt20 match with Warwickshire at Edgbaston. The former Gloucestershire wicketkeeper represented  Somerset in last year's Champions League and is again summoned because of a shortage of players.

    21/06/2012 (335 days old) | Read more
  • Surrey's Tom Maynard dies aged 23
    The Surrey batsman, Tom Maynard, has died at the age of 23 after an incident at Wimbledon Park station on Monday.

    18/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Northamptonshire
    Jos Buttler reaffirmed his desire to be part of England's ODI squad after his 58 not out led Somerset to a 5-wicket win over Northants with 1 ball left. "I wasn't surprised at not being picked this time, but I want to be in the next ODI squad," he said.

    17/06/2012 (339 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Northamptonshire
    Somerset 97-3 after 15 overs and requiring a further 41. Buttler has given a reminder of his prodigious talent with some brilliant one-day shots in moving to 32, but a close finish could yet be in prospect.

    17/06/2012 (339 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Northamptonshire
    Somerset 65-3 after ten overs and making fairly heavy weather of their target of 138. The pitch continues to assist spin and James Middlebrook has two of the wickets. Jos Buttler has started well for Somerset and now has James Hildreth as his partner.

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  • Interval - Somerset v Northamptonshire
    Northants 137-5 from their 20 overs, surely a below par score at Taunton, although it remains overcast and the pitch is not a typical belter. Cameron White top scored with 47 not out against his old county. Somerset fielded sharply and should go on to win.

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  • Somerset v Northamptonshire
    Northants 62-3 off ten overs. Best moment Niall O'Brien caught by brother Kevin reverse sweeping George Dockrell. An all Irish wicket. Dockrell has bowled his four overs for figures of 2-17.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Northamptonshire
    Somerset: Compton, Trego, Meschede, Buttler (wkt), Hildreth, O'Brien, Morkel, Thomas (capt), Waller, Dockrell, Kirby.
    Nothants: Newton, Coetzer, O'Brien (wkt), Wakeley (capt), White, Keogh, Middlebrook, Willey, Vaas, De Lange, Brooks.

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  • Northants won the toss - Somerset v Northamptonshire
    The visitors have elected to bat first on an overcast afternoon.

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  • Gloucestershire v Somerset
    The inevitable has happened at Bristol with um;pires Nigel Cowley and Mark Benson abandoning the game without a ball bowled after a 6pm inspection. It's still raining and the outfield has been saturated for some time. Flaming June has a new meaning!

    14/06/2012 (342 days old) | Read more
  • Gloucestershire v Somerset
    Very little prospect of play at Bristol where it has been raining since 3pm and areas of the outfield are waterlogged. While both local rivals might settle for a point, it is a huge shame for what would have been a packed crowd. Umbrellas still up.

    14/06/2012 (342 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Somerset beat Warwickshire by 63 runs
    Warwicks all out 128 and a great start to the competition for Somerset. Alfonso Thomas excellent as ever with the ball, as were the two young spinners Max Waller and George Dockrell.

    13/06/2012 (343 days old) | Read more
  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    A clueless Warwickshire chase is crashing and burning. In the 13th over the Bears are 80-7. As poor as Warwicks have looked, with a succession of head-in-the-air slogs, this has been an impressive display in the field by Somerset

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  • Interval - Somerset v Warwickshire
    Levi made 69 from 34 balls (4x6, 6x4) but Somerset may be a bit disappointed not to top 200 from their 20 overs in the early evening Taunton sunshine. 191-6 is their final total

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  • Somerset v Warwickshire
    South African Richard Levi has made a blistering start to his Somerset t20 career. With six overs still to be bowled, Levi is 62* from 31 balls and Warwickshire's bowlers are struggling to contain him at Taunton. Somerset 133-3 from 14.

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  • Team News - Surrey v Essex
    Surrey - Hamilton-Brown, Davies, Roy, deBruyn, Spriegel, Wilson, Batty, Ansari, Kartik, Nannes, Dernbach

    13/06/2012 (343 days old) | Read more
  • Essex won the toss - Surrey v Essex


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  • Bremner to head up Twenty20 fun
    By Paul Bolton
    This season’s Friends Life t20 really will be ‘hit and giggle cricket’ following the decision of the England and Wales Cricket Board to hire a team of comedians, headed by Rory Bremner, to provide

    11/06/2012 (345 days old) | Read more
  • Kevin O'Brien signs for Somerset
    Ireland international Kevin O'Brien has signed to play five Friends Life t20 matches for Somerset, starting with the match against Warwickshire on June 13. Somerset's other overseas signings for the competition are Richard Levi and Albie Morkel

    10/06/2012 (346 days old) | Read more
  • Statistics reveal huge extent of county rain disruption
    By Andrew Hignell
    The 2012 season could prove to be one of the dampest of recent times if the level of weather disruption experienced across the country during the past few days continues

    10/06/2012 (346 days old) | Read more
  • Counties in line for £1 million grants
    By Paul Bolton
    Counties are in line for a cash injection of £1 million each to improve their facilities from the England and Wales Cricket Board’s new £130 million broadcasting deal with ESPN

    09/06/2012 (347 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Middlesex v Somerset
    It's all over at Lord's. Somerset have held on for a draw thanks to Middx old boy Nick Compton, who batted for four and a half hours for his 69 not out. Middlesex take ten points to Somerset's four.

    08/06/2012 (348 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset 123-5. Nick Compton has just brought up his fifty with a four to fine leg off Murtagh. It was his seventh boundary hit and it came in 81 deliveries... and that's TEA.

    08/06/2012 (348 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset 113-5. Buttler is the latest man to find himself back in the hutch. He went for 16, caught at first slip off Berg. However, Compton is still there on 47.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset 90-4. Having just played a lovely straight drive for four off Roland-Jones, Craig Kieswetter edges to first slip.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset 81-3. Hildreth goes after failing to middle a pull off Roland-Jones. It did, however, require a good catch by Morgan, running in from the fence at deep mid-wicket.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Thankfully, it has stopped raining and we're back out again. The players can barely have had time to get to their respective dressing rooms before wending their way down through the Lord's pavilion and back out on to the hallowed turf.

    08/06/2012 (348 days old) | Read more
  • Middlesex v Somerset
    It's raining again at Lord's. Just 19 deliveries were sent down after lunch before the heavens opened. Somerset have now moved on to 43-2, needing 191 to avoid an innings defeat.

    08/06/2012 (348 days old) | Read more
  • LUNCH - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset 38-2 after 12 overs. No more alarms for the visitors, who lost Suppiah and Barrow with the total on four. Compton has looked in touch, but Hildreth has been somewhat tentative.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset 4-2. Tim Murtagh gets in on the act by trapping Alex Barrow leg before.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset 4-1. Arul Suppiah is the man to go, edging the ninth ball of the day to first slip, so Corey Collymore has struck.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex have declared with a lead of 191.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    All being well play will commence at a quarter past twelve at Lord's. The question is will Middlesex declare or pursue another batting bonus point.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Play abandoned for the day at Lord's. Day four starts at 11am tomorrow, weather permitting!

    07/06/2012 (349 days old) | Read more
  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Still awaiting the verdict of the umpires at Lord's, where it has been raining non-stop for the last three hours. What will come first - the announcement that play has been abandoned for the day or the lifting of the hosepipe ban in the South East?

    07/06/2012 (349 days old) | Read more
  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 364-3. Off again. Just twelve more deliveries were possible before the rain made a reappearance. It's much heavier this time, so we could well be looking at an early lunch.

    07/06/2012 (349 days old) | Read more
  • Middlesex v Somerset
    The rain has passed overhead and now we're back on again.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 361-3. As was feared, the wet stuff has arrived, so we're off at Lord's. To be fair, it's not raining all that hard, but the forecast is for worse.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 359-3. Dawid Malan goes for 51, having picked out Alex Barrow on the deep square leg boundary. So, Craig Overton, who has bowled well this morning, gets his reward.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 358-2. The hosts now have four batting points. Also, Malan has just brought up a 68-ball half-century with a superb drive through extra cover for four off Thomas.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 341-2. The hosts have added 20 in ten overs, all of them in singles except Dawid Malan's pulled six off Alfonso Thomas and a wide.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    We are underway here at Lord's, but as for how much cricket we'll see, who knows. There's grey cloud as far as the eye can see.

    07/06/2012 (349 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Impi closure hits Collingwood and Wright
    By Richard Gibson
    New Age Impi have disbanded after just one season participating in South Africa’s domestic Twenty20 cricket, leaving captain Paul Collingwood and fellow England international Luke Wright seeking

    07/06/2012 (349 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex close on 321-2. You can safely say it has been their day thanks to Rogers (173) and Denly (105*) who set a new record for Middlesex's second wicket in first-class matches against Somerset. The previous highest was set by Shah and Langer in 1999.

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 250-1. Rogers and Denly have pushed the button. Rogers only needed a further 28 balls to turn his hundred into 150. Denly, meanwhile, is on 85.

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 176-1. It all went quiet for a while there, but Chris Rogers has just posted his hundred, off 139 balls. It's his second in this season's champo and his third at Lord's.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 160-1. It's now the Joe Denly show. The former Kent man has just posted a 76-ball half-century. Since tea, the hosts have added 46 in ten overs.

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  • TEA - Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex take tea on 114-1. Chris Rogers, with 80 not out, has been in a different class to all the other batsmen who have tried their hand today.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 102-1. Chris Rogers (78) has just brought the hundred up for the hosts with three successive fours on the off-side off Geemal Hussain, whom he has now taken for 5 fours in 7 balls.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 69-1. Rogers has just moved to his fifty, which came off 62 deliveries.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 40-1. Alfonso Thomas strikes with his sixth ball, which has Sam Robson pinned on the crease. Robson departs lbw for nine.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex 38-0. Rogers is making up for lost time. The Aussie now has 31 from 32 balls.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex, who are 19-0, have made a positive start thanks to Chris Rogers, who has just cover driven and cut Hussain to the fence in front of the Mound Stand.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset all out for 173. Peter Trego, looking to go big, succeeded only in picking out Eoin Morgan at deep square leg. Trego made 38. Murtagh, Roland-Jones and Berg finish with three apiece.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset 173-9. Peter Trego obviously doesn't rate Geemal Hussain's ability with the bat. The loss of Dockrell, who was caught behind off Roland-Jones, has prompted Trego to come down the pitch to Berg. Result - fours to long-on and cover point.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    We're back on at Lord's and Peter Trego has just pulled Gareth Berg wide of mid-on for four. That takes the boundary count for the day to three - all of them have come from shots played on the back foot, which is telling.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Sunshine and the covers are coming off at Lord's, but, with the amount of rain we had, the resumption ain't going to be any time soon.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    It's now raining at Lord's as well. Somerset have made a recovery of sorts, thanks to Trego and Dockrell. The visitors are 155-8 in the 61st over.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Make that 133-8. Alfonso Thomas has just lost his off peg to Gareth Berg.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset 130-7. What a start for Middlesex. Somerset have lost three wickets to the first five deliveries of day two without adding ton their overnight score. Kieswetter went caught behind. Buttler was bowled off an inside edge and Overton gloved through.

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  • Close Of Play - Middlesex v Somerset
    Rain finally won the day at Lord's with Somerset on 130 for four after 48.5 overs. Hidreth top-scored with 58, Craig Kieswetter also dug  in for 48 before the heavens opened at 3pm. Each of the four Middlesex bowlers on show took a wicket apiece, but Collymore hobbled off with a knee problem when unable to complete his 12th over of the match. Play resumes at 11am on Wednesday, weather permitting. 

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  • RSP - Middlesex v Somerset
    The weather forecast has proved correct at Lord's where Somerset left the field soon after 3pm on 130 for four.The visitors had just lost opening batsman James Hildreth for a dogged 58 scored in three hours. Having seen Corey Collymore leave the field holding the back of his right knee, Gareth Berg stepped up to complete the over and have Hildreth caught behind when fecing away from the body.     

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Somerset
    Hildreth half-century: The stylish Somerset right-hander is leading a partial recovery with this 108-ball fifty with five fours. His knock has helped take the West Country county through to 103 for three after 41 overs, but rain may be on the way to halt the re-building process. 

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  • Ball takes rare chance to impress
    By Dave Bracegirdle
    Young seamer Jake Ball caught the eye as Nottinghamshire completed a five-wicket Clydesdale Bank 40 win over Somerset

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  • LUNCH - Middlesex v Somerset
    Somerset 64-3 after 29 overs with Hildreth on 29 and Kieswetter with 12. Middlesex's morning on the whole and a good first toss of the season to win for their acting captain Chris Rogers. 

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Norman de Mesquita has just announced that today's soup on offer in the J P Morgan media centre at Lord's is cream of cauiflower. It's almost lunch therefore and Somerset have limped to 61 for three after 28 overs. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Suppiah goes for 15. Having battled 94 minutes the Somerset right-hander pushed forward at a Roland-Jones off-cutter only to squeeze it through bat and pad and onto off stump to make it 45 for three after 22 overs.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    Murtagh gives way after a stunning nine-over stint of one for 19. Suppiah and Hildreth will be glad to see the back of him having struggled to lay a bat on it for 75 minutes. Gareth Berg replaces him at the Nursery End.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    In-form Nick Compton goes for only a single on his return to Lord's. The former Middlesex right-hander shouldered arms to a Tim Murtagh off-cutter that trimmed off stumps and removed solely the off bail to make it 1-2.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Somerset
    Corey Collynore strikes with his third delivery of the game and Somerset are 0-1 after only nine balls. Alex Barrow was the man to go, pushing forward at an off-cutter that jagged down the Lord's slope and in to the right-hander, the ball took a thick inside edge and John Simpson bagged a stunning catch, diving away leg-side in his left glove. 

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  • Middlesex ..... won the toss - Middlesex v Somerset
    Middlesex win the toss at Lord's and decide to field first against Somerset. Corey Collymore comes in for the hosts and Somerset bring in Geemal Hussain.

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  • Middlesex v Somerset
    An overcast and chilly morning in St John's Wood, but play between Middlesex and Somerset should get underway on time. Will return with toss and team news as soon as we get them.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    NOTTS WIN BY 5 WICKETS - Chris Read punches Peter Trego down the ground for the winning boundary to complete a fairly resounding success for the home side, who have now won two out of their four matches, whilst it's a fourth straight loss for Somerset.

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    TAYLOR GONE - Just a dozen for James Taylor as he becomes Trego's second victim, trapped lbw by a delivery that was fired right up into the block-hole. Notts 186-5, need only 20 from 40 balls.

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    WESSELS OUT - Trying to lift the ball up and over the 'keeper, Riki Wessels just gets a thin nibble on it as it flies through to Kieswetter. The batsman out for 55, with Alfonso Thomas claiming the scalp. Notts 157-3.

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  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    FIFTY FOR RIKI WESSELS - 50 balls, 3x4 2x6 - Notts 151-2, needing a further 55 from 80 balls.

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    MICHAEL LUMB GOES - A splendid 65 but a mistimed pull off Craig Meschede flies high to covern where Max Waller pouches a routine catch. Notts now 135-2, needing only 71 more.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    20 over halfway stage of the Notts innings and they are coasting at 127-1, with Lumb on 63 and Wessels on 36. The target is only 206, so Somerset need something to happen - and fast!

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  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    FIFTY FOR MICHAEL LUMB - High class innings from the left-hander, coming from 47 deliveries, with seven boundaries. Notts 100-1

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    HALES OUT - Something for Somerset to enjoy at last as Alex Hales slaps a long hop from Lewis Gregory straight to Arul Suppiah in the deep. It really should have been halfway up the Loughborough Road but Hales has gone for 22 - Notts 56-1.

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  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    FIFTY UP - A steady, well-paced start from Alex Hales and Michael Lumb takes Notts to 50-0 in the 9th over, chasing a total of 206 for victory.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    Somerset have posted 205-8 from their 40 overs, with Peter Trego's 47 being the top score. The home side turned in a much improved bowling performance after going for 310 just 24 hours earlier, with Jake Ball and Darren Pattinson each taking three wickets.

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    A shocking mix-up after an over-throw brings a promising innings from Craig Meschede to an untidy conclusion. After hitting two sixes in his 33, he was stranded as both he and Arul Suppiah ran to the same end, leaving Alex Hales to do the rest. 170-6.

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    BUTTLER OUT - Jos Buttler, trying to use his feet to get to Samit Patel is beaten by the quicker one and is comprehensively bowled and is out for 29. Somerset struggling to post a sizeable total now with half their side out for 122.

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    TREGO OUT - The returning Darren Pattinson picks up his second wicket of the innings as umpire George Sharp upheld the lbw shout. Trego out for 47 and Somerset are now 113-4 after 24 overs.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    A more disciplined bowling performance from Notts today as they retsrict Somerset to 74-3 at the halfway stage of the innings. Two wickets for Jake Ball and one to Darren Pattinson. Peter Trego not out 27 for the visitors.

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    KIESWETTER OUT - Terrific delivery from Jake Ball that nipped back to flatten the off stump of the England international. Kieswetter out for 24 and it's 49-2 in the fourteenth over.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    Steady start for Somerset, who have reached 27-1 after 10 overs. Nick Compton is the man out, edging Darren Pattinson through to Chris Read for 7.

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  • Team News - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    Notts: Hales, Lumb, Wessels, Patel, Taylor, Voges, Read (capt), Mullaney, Ball, Pattinson, Gurney
    Som: Compton, Kieswetter, Trego, Hildreth, Buttler, Suppiah, Gregory, Waller, Meschede, Thomas (capt), Kirby

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  • Notts won the toss - Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    Notts Outlaws have won the toss at Trent Bridge and have asked Somerset to bat first. Team news to follow.....

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  • Nottinghamshire v Somerset
    Chilly but dry at Trent Bridge for a clash between two sides badly in need of kick-starting their CB40 campaigns. The visitors have lost 3 out of 3 so far, with Notts only marginally better - with one win and 2 defeats, including yesterday's loss at Durham.

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  • Close Of Play - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Match drawn here. Worcs 129-7 declared at 4.50pm

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Kieswetter has taken a second wicket. Gareth Andrew LBW for a duck. Worcs 128-7

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Ben Scott run out without scoring. A horrible mix up with Moeen Ali after Scott had paddled off his legs and been called for a suicidal single. Worcs 125-6

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Craig Kieswetter has taken off his pads and bowled for the first time in first class cricket. His gentle twirl has brought a wicket with his fifth ball, Pardoe bowled for 28. Worcs 123-5

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcs 100-4. Matt Pardoe has played  positively since tea and helped to take Worcestershire closer to safety

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  • TEA - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Tea being taken at New Road. Play due to re-start at 3.30pm with 44 overs to be bowled.

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Now drizzling at New Road. It's looking bleak

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Bad light has stopped play at New Road. Worcs 60 for four. Somerset had replaced Peter Trego with Arul Suppiah's left arm spin at the Diglis End in an attempt to stay on but the umpires were not satisfied.

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Make that 60 for four. James Cameron went for a fourth ball duck prodding away from his body and edging Dockrell to James Hildreth at slip. Dockrell is getting sharp turn and Worcestershire are in danger of messing this up.

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Daryl Mitchell caught at short leg by Alex Barrow off George Dockrell. Worcestershire 60-3

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    It's getting very murky at New Road

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  • LUNCH - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Sussex in brown stuff after Middlesex took five wickets this morning with 68 runs added. Well though the hosts bowled, too many loose shots by the batsmen. With Finn due back into the attack after lunch this might not take much longer to wrap up.

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  • LUNCH - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worceestershire 52-2 from 17 overs. Daryl Mitchell 15 Moeen Ali 1.

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Vikram Solanki bowled by Peter Trego. Big inswinger that Solanki missed and he lost his leg stump

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Phil Hughes caught behind off George Dockrell. He pulled the previous ball for six but tried to repeat the stroke, took one hand off the bat and scooped a catch to Craig Kieswetter who trotted back a couple of yards.

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  • WICKET - Leicestershire v West Indians
    Kirk Edwards lasted two balls in the second innings at Trent Bridge - and he's lasted only one more at Grace Road today, Nadeem Malik having him lbw for a three-ball duck. Edwards, captain today, continues his miserable tour. West Indies 25-2.

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Craig Overton caught at first slip by Vikram Solanki off Jones. Somerset 298 all out. Worcestershire lead by 42. Difficult to see anything other than a draw.

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Alfonso Thomas has chipped David Lucas to Richard Jones at mid on. Worcsetershire have got maximum bowling points. Somerset 340-9

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Craig Overton caught by Richard Jones at mid-on to give Jack Shantry his first five wicket haul in two years.

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Play will start on time according to the umpires

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Ground conditions are playable at New Road, it's just a matter of whether the light is good enough

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Grey and damp at New Road but it's stopped drizzling and the covers are coming off. Shouldn't be too long before we are off and running

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  • Close Of Play - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Play abandoned for the day at New Road

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Covers now on at New Road

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Bad light stopped play here. Somerset 277-7

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Compton bowled by Jack Shantry for 108. Somerset now 277 for seven. He batted four hours and 20 minutes, faed 226 balls and struck 13 fours

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Peter Trego brilliantly caught at extra cover by Matt Pardoe. Somerset 268-6

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Nick Compton 100 from 217 balls with 13 fours. His fourth of a productive season including two double centuries. His 15th of the season.

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Jos Buttler caught at wide long on off Moeen Ali for 85. He was furious with himself. Buttler shared fifth wicket stand of 167 in 44 overs with Compton who is 96 not out

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  • TEA - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Somerset 224-5. Compton 83 not out, Buttler 70 not out. Good session for Somerset but Worcestershire are missing the injured Alan Richardson

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    200-4 Jos Buttler 56 not out, Comtpon 74 not out. A century partnership and the follow-on has been saved.

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Nick Compton has scored the 59 he needed to reach 1,000 for the season. It's the earliest the landmark has been reached since Graeme Hick got there on May 28 1988. Rob Key reached 1,000 on June 2 2004

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Nick Compton 50. Only six more needed for his 1,000

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Compton has driven Shantry for four through mid off, his first boundary in 76 balls. He's motored on to 25, needs 24 more to reach 1,000

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  • LUNCH - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Somerset 89-4. Compton is 17 not out but has scored only eight runs in 85 minutes today

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Craig Kieswetter has gone first ball. A big nick to Ben Scott.

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    James Hildreth has gone LBW for 52 playing back to Jack Shantry who has conceded only one run in four overs. Somerset 86-3

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Sussex
    300 up for Middlesex, authoritative pull in front of square by Gareth Berg when Magoffin dropped short. Anyon bowling beautifully from the Nursery End and has beaten the bat regularly and generated excellent pace. He deserves a wicket or two.

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    James Hildreth 50 from 64 balls with nine fours. Meanwhile Nick Compton has scored eight in the first hour

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Somerset 50-2

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Nick Compton has steered David Lucas for four through point

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Drizzling here at New Road and the covers have just gone on

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  • Compton denied place in exclusive club
    By Andrew Hignell
    So rain has cruelly prevented Nick Compton from becoming the ninth batsman in first-class cricket history to score 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May.

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  • Close Of Play - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Play abandoned for the day

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  • TEA - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Now taking tea here

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Rain stopped play here at New Road. Somerset 27-2. Compton unbeaten on nine, he needs 50 more runs today to reach his landmark

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Compton 6 not out but it is getting very dark

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Does half an hour constitute much play? 3.30pm start if there's no further rain. 

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    The umpires are out there inspecting. The rain has stopped, but the covers are saturated. I'd be very surprised if we see much before 4pm. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Somerset 11-2.
    Alex Barrow caught behind driving at David Lucas and Arul Suppiah taken at midwicket. Compton at the crease but yet to get off the mark.

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  • LUNCH - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcestershire 340 all out on the stroke of lunch. Richard Jones brilliantly taken down the leg side by Craig Kieswetter off Craig Overton. Last seven wickets went down for 38.

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Gareth Andrew caught at slip by James Hildreth having a dart at George Dockrell who has replaced Trego at the New Road End

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    David Lucas bowled driving at Trego who has now taken his second five wicket haul for Somerset and the third of his career

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Ben Scott LBW to Jamie Overton for one. The collapse continues. Worcestershire 310-7

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcestershire 309-6. Matt Pardoe playing across the line to Peter Trego. 110 overs now bowled

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  • England - KP's retirement
    Go to facebook.com/thecricketermag to have your say on Pietersen's shock retirement from ODIs and T20s

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  • Kevin Pietersen retires from limited-overs
    Kevin Pietersen has retired from international one-dayers and twenty20s with immediate effect. ECB "disappointed by the timing" of his decision

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Vikram Solanki yorked by Trego for 105.

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    James Cameron well taken by Trego at second slip off Thomas. Worcestershire 302 for four, their highest score of the season

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Vikram Solanki has reached his 100, the 31st of his career. Faced 180 balls, struck 13 fours and a six

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Off and running at New Road

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  • Close Of Play - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcestershire 270-3. Vikram Solanki  82 not out,  James Cameron  14 not out.

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Moeen Ali to Peter Trego who has just taken the new ball. Worcestershire 237-3

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Vikram Solanki 50 from 104 balls with five fours and a six

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    200 up. Solanki straight drove Dockrell for six to take them there

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Daryl Mitchell has gone, caught behind cutting Arul Suppiah's third ball. Mitchell batted for four-and-a-quarter hours and faced 225 balls for his 80.

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  • TEA - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcs 163-1. Mitchell 72 not out, Vikram Solanki 21 not out. Solanki was dropped twice in successive balls, first by James Hildreth at slip off George Dockrell then by Dockrell at midwicket off Peter Trego

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcs 150-1
    Mitchell 63 not out

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Daryl Mitchell 50 from 162 balls . Worcs 131-1

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcs 100-1
    Hughes caught behind carving at Peter Trego for 53

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcs 100-0. Their first century opening partnership in the championship since April 2011

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Phil Hughes 50 on his championship debut for Worcestershire. Faced 101 balls and struck five fours.
    Worcestershire 95-0

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  • LUNCH - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcs  77-0
    Mitchell 35 not out, Hughes 40 not out


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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcestershire 50-0
    Hard going for Daryl Mitchell and Phil Hughes but they are still there. Twins Craig and James Overton now bowling in tandem

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  • Team News - Durham v Lancashire
    Durham: Smith, Stoneman, Muchall, Stokes, Collingwood, Benkenstein, Mustard (capt), Borthwick, Onions, Harrison Harmison. Lancashire: Horton, Moore, Brown, Prince, Croft, Procter, Cross, Shahzad, Chapple (capt), Hogg, Kerrigan

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  • ..... won the toss - Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire won the toss and put Durham in

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  • Team News - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Phil Hughes makes his championship debut for Worcestershire replacing compatriot Michael Klinger who played in their last match against Sussex.
    Somerset unchanged from last week's win over Durham

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  • ..... won the toss - Worcestershire v Somerset
    Worcestershire won toss and bat. Compton will have to wait for the chance to reach his landmark

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Dry, humid but cloudy at New Road.
    All eyes on Nick Compton who needs 59 by close of play tomorrow to complete 1,000 by the end of May

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  • Somerset v Hampshire
    Michael Carberry (103*) saw Hampshire to their target, and reached his 83-ball century, with a straight 6. It completed an emphatic 9-wkt win that sends Hants to the top of CB40 Group B with a 3rd successive win.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Hampshire
    Jimmy Adams has skied a catch to Alex Barrow at mid-on off Craig Overton, but not before scoring a 42-ball half-century. Hampshire are cruising towards their target of 213, with Michael Carberry reaching fifty off 40 balls. 137-1 in the 18th over.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Hampshire
    Nick Compton out for 81 after drilling Griffiths to long-on in Somerset's final over. 209-8

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Hampshire
    Overton run out after being sent back by Compton in penultimate over and then Gregory drilled first ball of last over, from Griffiths, to mid-off. 208-7

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Hampshire
    Liam Dawson's direct hit from mid-off has run out Jos Buttler for a brilliant 71. 146-3

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  • Somerset v Hants
    Half-centuries for Jos Buttler (62*) and now Nick Compton (52*), from 59 and 79 balls respectively. So far they've put on 109. Somerset 134-3

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Hampshire
    A half-century for Jos Buttler off 59 balls, with 7 fours. He averaged 137 in CB40 last season and clearly still loves the competition. Mascarenhas bowled his eight over straight through taking 2-17. Compton is 40 not out and Somerset 107-3 in the 26th over

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  • Somerset v Hants
    Dimi Mascarenhas has been replaced by Danny Briggs at the River End after an outstanding opening spell in his first game back (8-1-17-2). Somerset 62-3 after 16

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Hampshire
    Three in the first ten overs for Hampshire, with Kieswetter, Trego and Hildreth out. Mascarenhas been terrific from the River End clean bowling Kieswetter and Trego, while Hldreth fell to a top-edged pull off Chris Wood. Somerset 41-3.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Hants
    Chris Wood has the scalp of England Lions star James Hildreth, ct top edging an attempted hook. 25-3

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Hants
    Mascarenhas strikes again, Peter Trego going in carbon copy fashion to Kieswetter. Somerset 22-2

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Hampshire
    Great start for Dimi Mascarenhas, flattening Craig Kieswetter's off stump in his 2nd over. Somerset 10-1

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  • Hampshire won the toss - Somerset v Hampshire
    Hampshire are fielding at Taunton after winning the toss. Dimi Mascarenhas is making his first county appearance of the season after arriving back from the IPL last week. 

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  • Hampshire won the toss - Somerset v Hampshire
    Jimmy Adams has elected to field first on a warm, but overcast afternoon.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Hampshire
    Hampshire: Carberry, Adams (capt), Vince, Katich, Ervine, Dawson, Wood, Bates (wkt), Mascarenhas, Briggs, Griffiths.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Hampshire
    Gemaal Hussain makes first appearance of the season for Somerset after a torn hamstring. Team: Kieswetter (wkt) Compton, Trego, Hildreth (capt), Buttler, Barrow, Gregory, C.Overton, Waller, Dockrell, Hussain.

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Durham
    Somerset have won by five wickets, Craig Kieswetter ending the game with a big six over mid-wicket off Will Smith. The home side take 24 points to Durham's seven and, despite a crippling injury list, are flying high in the First Division table.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    James Hildreth caught at mid-wicket off a short ball from Steve Harmison for 31. But it's almost certainly too late for Durham as Arul Suppiah is unbeaten on 60 and at 107-3 Somerset require only a further 45 to win.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Compton has gone for eight, caught at slip off a top-edged sweep and may now have only one more innings to reach 1,000 first class runs in May. Ian Blackwell took his wicket and, with the ball turning, may hold the key to Durham's hopes. 17-2 with 135 needed.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Just the start Somerset didn't want. Alex Barrow lbw first ball playing across a straight delivery from Jamie Harrison. Enter Nick Compton needing 67 for 1,000 first class runs before the end of May.

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  • Interval - Somerset v Durham
    Durham 167 all out, George Dockrell 6-29 and Somerset need only 152 to win. It is the second time the left-arm spinner has taken six in an innings at Taunton this season. His last victim was Jamie Harrison, caught at point for 20. Tea being taken.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Paul Collingwood has departed for 32 in a manner not in keeping with the situation. Aiming a slog over mid-wicket, he presented Hildreth with another slip catch and Dockrell with a fifth wicket. Durham 158-9, 142 ahead, and we might even finish today.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    There is no stopping Dockrell, who made it four wickets for no runs in the space of ten balls by having Callum Thorp caught at cover. It had to be an Overton taking the catch and this time it was Jamie. Four wickets had fallen on 131. Durham now 136-8.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Three of them in fact, all with the score on 131, and all to George Dockrell, who is getting the ball to turn out of the rough. He has sent back Blackwell, Mustard and Plunkett in quick succession to leave Durham 131-7, only 115 ahead and in big trouble.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    We'll get the heading right this time! It's now 69-4, with Will Smith caught at second slip by Peter Trego off Alfonso Thomas for 22. Ian Blackwell marches out on his old stamping ground with his team only 53 in front and crumbling

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    We'll get the heading right this time! It's now 69-4, with Will Smith caught at second slip by Peter Trego off Alfonso Thomas for 22. Ian Blackwell marches out on his old stamping ground with his team only 53 in front and crumbling

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    It's the Overtons show. Craig has struck again, having Ben Stokes caught at third slip by Alex Barrow for a fourth ball duck. Durham 69-3, 53 ahead, and needing a big innings from Paul Collingwood.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Mark Stoneman has provided another slip catch for James Hildreth, this time off the other twin, Craig Overton, and departed for 13. He was trying to withdraw the bat. Durham 69-2 after 23 overs and 53 in front. The sun has broken through and it's hot.

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Durham
    Durham 59-1 off 19 overs, with Di Venuto the man out, caught in the slips by Hildreth off Jamie Overton for 26. With the cloud cover, it has been a more even contest between bat and ball. Durham 43 ahead and looking to bat long on a still excellent pitch.

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  • Interval - Somerset v Durham
    Somerset have a slender lead of 16. They have probably declared because the skies are overcast for the first time in the match and conditions are better for bowling, at least temporarily. Harrison 4-112 on debut.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Durham
    Maximum batting points for Somerset, who have declared on 400-9, having begun the day on 357-8. Peter Trego relished the situation and moved from 67 to 89 before being bowled by Harrison with the score 389. Dockrell and Jamie Overton did the rest.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Warwickshire
    Warwickshire 131-2. Porterfield has gone, caught at first slip, driving lavishly at Batty. By and large, however, Surrey have not really threatened. So, on what promises to be the hottest day of the year so far, there could be lots of leather chasing.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Barrow strangled down the leg side by Harmison without adding to his lunch score of 25. James Hildreth off the mark first ball with a cut boundary and Somerset 70-2 in the 20th over, with Nick Compton 25 runs nearer his 1,000 for season. He's now on 894.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Barrow strangled down the leg side by Harmison without adding to his lunch score of 25. James Hildreth off the mark first ball with a cut boundary and Somerset 70-2 in the 20th over, with Nick Compton 25 runs nearer his 1,000 for season. He's now on 894.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    A maiden Championship wicket for Jamie Harrison. The left-arm seamer has dismissed Suppiah for four, lbw pushing forward with the total on six. Nick Compton, on course for 1,000 first class runs before the end of May, is the new batsman.

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  • Interval - Somerset v Durham
    Durham have been bowled out for 384, adding 31 for their last two wickets this morning. Jamie Harrison was caught in the gully off Peter Trego for 15 and Liam Plunkett caught behind off Alfonso Thomas for 24. Arul Suppiah and Alex Barrow to launch reply.

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  • Somerset v Durham
    The Quantocks are shimmering in the heat at Taunton. With two wickets standing Durham's bowlers have to try to repair the damage done by the reckless batting of yesterday's evening session. All eyes will be on Harmison.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Durham
    Essex
    won the toss and will bat

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  • Close Of Play - Somerset v Durham
    Durham 353-8 after some careless dismissals since tea. Somerset will feel they are still in the game, which didn't look likely at one stage. Two wickets each for Trego and Jamie Overton and some sharp fielding. Honours failrly even.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Good fielding off his own bowling by Craig Overton has seen the back of Ben Stokes for 60. Overton's pick up and direct hit found Stokes out of his ground as he advanced down the pitch. Durham 326-6 and in danger of not making the most of their start.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    No joy for Ian Blackwell against his old club, Another loose shot has seen the all-rounder pull a short ball from Jamie Overton straight to Nick Compton at square leg. Blackwell made seven, it's 295-5 and Somerset are hanging in there. New ball in 2 overs.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Paul Collingwood's poor season continues. He has departed for 12 to a diving catch at cover by Suppiah. It was a loose drive off left-arm spinner George Dockrell, who deserved his wicket. Durham 285-4 with a new ball due in four overs.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Will Smith has gone without adding to his 100. A somewhat tired miscued pull off Jamie Overton gave Alfonso Thomas a tumbling catch at mid-on. Durham 266-3 and Paul Collingwood has joined Stokes.

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  • TEA - Somerset v Durham
    Durham 264-2 off 67 overs and in total control from the start. Smith is 100 not out, while Ben Stokes has begun with a flourish and already moved to 23. Somerset's best hope of a wicket appears to be another run-out.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Durham
    Will Smith 100 off 192 balls with 12 fours and 2 sixes. A study in concentration. It's still looking a case of how many Durham want to score. But even Somerset fans must be enjoying the weather - and it's a big first day crowd.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Mark Stoneman on 27 played Arul Suppiah to cover and set off for a single. A smart pick up and throw to the keeper from Jos Buttler ran him out by yards as Will Smith rightly turned down the invitation to run. Durham 236-2 and Smith on 94.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Di Venuto falls four short of what seemed an inevitable century. He actually played and missed at a ball from Alfonso Thomas and then nicked the next one to the keeper trying to cut. The opening stand was 158. Now Durham are 169-1 with Smith 60 not out.

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  • LUNCH - Somerset v Durham
    Durham 128-0 and cruising with Di Venuto on 80 and Smith 46. Barely a ball has passed the bat as Somerset's below strength bowling attack has been cruelly exposed. It looks like being a long hot day in the field for the home side.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Durham
    A century opening stand for Durham brought up in the 27th over. Di Venuto, dropped on 38 in the slips by Trego off Thomas, is on 65 and Smith on 33. No other alarms on a glorious day for batting. Di Venuto's fifty came off 53 balls, with 9 fours and a six.

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  • Somerset v Durham
    Twelve overs gone and already a big Durham score likely. Di Venuto and Smith looked in no trouble against the less than fearsome opening attack of Peter Trego and Jamie Overton. Now Craig Overton and Alfonso Thomas have taken over. 52-0 Di Venuto 34. 

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  • Team News - Somerset v Durham
    Left-arm seamer Jamie Harrison makes his Championship debut for Durham. Team: Di Venuto, Smith, Stoneman, Collingwood, Stokes, Blackwell, Mustard, Thorp, Plunkett, Harmison, Harrison.

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  • Team News - Somerset v Durham
    Alfonso Thomas back in Somerset's team after IPL duty. Jos Buttler also returns after a hand injury. Vernon Phillander has returned to South Africa. Team; Suppiah, Barrow, Compton, Hildreth, Kieswetter, Buttler, Trego, Thomas, C.Overton, Dockrell, J.Overton.

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  • Durham won the toss - Somerset v Durham
    Not a cloud in the sky at Taunton for the noon start. The visitors have not surprisingly elected to bat.

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  • Somerset news
    Noon start on opening day of Championship game with Durham at Taunton tomorrow. Alfonso Thomas and Gemaal Hussain in Somerset squad of 14, but both face fitness checks in morning. Thomas flew back from IPL today.

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  • Surrey v Somerset - Match Drawn
    Hamilton-Brown and Jon Lewis have seen out the remaining 11.4 overs, including five with the second new ball, to earn Surrey a draw at 239-7. Hamilton-Brown has batted well for 70 not out. Lewis 12 not out. Surrey 10 points, Somerset 11

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Gareth Batty bowled by Dockrell, trying to cut, after making 33. He and Hamilton-Brown, who is still there on 62, had added 71 in 34 overs for the seventh wicket, but some time ago had decided to try to bat out for the draw. 12 overs to go, Surrey 219-7

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Just one boundary in eight overs since tea, a cut four by Hamilton-Brown off Dockrell. The young spinner is still wheeling away with impressive control at the Vauxhall End, while at the other end Philander's four overs after the interval have cost just five runs. Surrey 197-6

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  • TEA - Surrey v Somerset
    Rory Hamilton-Brown (44 not out) and Gareth Batty have seen Surrey through to tea, at 184-6 and needing another 121 from a minimum of 36 overs. Not impossible, but Somerset must still be the favourites

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset are seemingly on their way to victory as this match continues to go their way at pace. From 96-1, Surrey have slid to 148-6, with Chris Jordan the latest to go - lbw to Trego for 6 playing across his front pad.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Tom Maynard lbw for 13 to Peter Trego, to a nip-backer. Umpire Ian Gould thought about it for a long time (relatively) before raising the finger. Surrey 136-5 and Somerset sniffing victory now

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Surrey's chase falling apart at 103-4. Later in the same Dockrell over, de Bruyn swept powerfully but uppishly to deep square leg where Meschede dived forward to take a fine low catch - hurting his shoulder in the process. He has gone off for treatment but Somerset in control

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Another wicket, and the important one of Rudolph. Again, a clever piece of bowling from the young Somerset spinner, who held one back a touch as left-hander Rudolph, on 45, advanced down the pitch with the aim of depositing the ball over wide long on. But he succeeded only in skying to wide deep mid-wicket. Surrey 103-3

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    George Dockrell. Somerset's teenage Irish left-arm spinner, has made a crucial breakthrough by having Jason Roy taken at short leg, trying to work to leg against the spin. Surrey 96 for 2, Roy made 41 and he and Rudolph put on 89. Somerset needed that wicket

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  • LUNCH - Surrey v Somerset
    Surrey 66-1, with Roy on 31 and Rudolph on 27. That means 239 more runs needed for victory, from a minimum of 67 overs. Both sides will fancy their chances - with a bit of good fortune, Somerset could have had a couple more wickets in the 18 overs so far

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Fascinating stuff here. Surrey now 59-1 as lunch approaches, with both Roy and Rudolph looking to be aggressive, and playing some fine shots, but with Somerset's seamers also going past the bat on occasions. Let's hope the weather holds as we could have a great finish today

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Surrey 7-1, which is not in their plans. Steven Davies, shaping to force on the offisde, has played on to Philander, for 4, and Jacques Rudolph has come in at No 3 to join Jason Roy.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Stuart Meaker has plucked out the off stumps of both Overton twins, Craig and Jamie, in the space of three balls to end the Somerset second innings at 180. The highly-impressive, pacy Meaker has a career-best 8 for 52 and Surrey will be chasing 305 to win

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Meaker has taken his sixth wicket of the innings, as Vern Philander hits him straight to short extra cover. Philander out for 5, and Somerset now 171-8 - a lead of 295. Getting very interesting.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Away on time at the Oval this morning, with Somerset's overnight lead 278. Surrey need to strike early if they are to have a chance to win, but in 15 minutes so far the bowling from Jordan and Meaker has been a little wayward. Somerset now 168-7 - 14 runs added

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  • Somerset confirm Levi signing
    Brian Rose has confirmed the signing of big-hitting South African Richard Levi to play in this season's Friends Life t20 competition. Levi will join fellow countryman Albie Morkel in Somerset's squad.

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  • Close Of Play - Surrey v Somerset
    Bad light has had the final say at the Oval where the visitors, who are seven down, will take a lead of 278 into the final day, which promises to be an interesting one.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset 147-7. Nick Compton goes, top edging a pull off Chris Jordan, for 50. Surrey are beginning to scent victory.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset 147-6. Stuart Meaker has a five-fer. Craig Meschede departs for 10, having been beaten for pace, though not before Nick Compton had brought up a 126-ball half-century.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Bad light has stopped play at the Oval, where Somerset, who are 144-5, have a lead of 268. Stuart Meaker, who has 4-39, has bowled magnificently, however Nick Compton is still there on 48. 

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset 122-4. Craig Kieswetter has gone, caught low down at mid-off by Hamilton-Brown off a leading edge for 43, to give Stuart Meaker his third success of the day.

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  • TEA - Surrey v Somerset
    Drizzling at t'Oval, so tea is being taken an over early. Somerset have progressed to 111-3, under the lights. A lead of 235. Meaker and Jordan have beaten the outside edge on occasions, but Compton and Kieswetter have looked assured.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset 73-3. Nick Compton and Craig Kieswetter, who are middling everything, are now stamping their authority on proceedings. Shot of the day - Kieswetter clipping George Edwards's first ball off his legs for a flat six.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset 30-3. Surrey are right back in this. Meaker strikes again, James Hildreth going caught behind.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset 24-2. Alex Barrow goes caught at first slip off Stuart Meaker off one that got big on him. Surrey are working their way back into this contest.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset 21-1, putting them 145 ahead. Arul Suppiah has gone, caught at first slip off Jon Lewis. Playing under floodlights now.

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  • LUNCH - Surrey v Somerset
    Surrey ended up making 388, giving Somerset a first innings lead of 124. The last man to go was Jon Lewis whose middle stump was flattened by George Dockrell.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Surrey 356-9. Tom Maynard has departed for 89, caught at short mid-wicket off Peter Trego. Surrey need seven runs to avoid the prospect of following on, but it's thought unlikely Somerset will enforce.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Surrey 330-8. Vernon Philander picks up his fourth wicket of the innings. Stuart Meaker, driving forcefully, goes caught at first slip. Tom Maynard now has 84.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Surrey 319-7. Gareth Batty goes - LBW to Jamie Overton. That's two wickets for the debutant now. Both of them have come in his first over with a new ball.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Surrey 316-6. The hosts have added 30 in seven overs this morning. In the sixth over, Tom Maynard straight drove a six off Dockrell before despatching the Irishman to the rope at extra cover. Maynard on 76.

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  • Close Of Play - Surrey v Somerset
    Thanks to Tom Maynard and Gareth Batty, Surrey have recovered to 286-6. However, Somerset are still holding most of the aces. Surrey, who are 226 runs behind, need another 77 in the morning to avoid the prospect of following on.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    George Dockrell may only have one wicket, but he's getting enough turn and spit to suggest he'll be a handful on day four. So, if Surrey fail to reach the follow-on target of 363, expect Somerset not to enforce. Surrey 227-5.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Steven Davies and Zander de Bruyn have departed. Davies gloving a catch to short leg in the first over after tea and de Bruyn going caught at first slip in the next. Surrey 188-4.

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Somerset
    Steven Davies has just moved to his first hundred of the season, which came off 113 balls and included 11 fours and two maximums. Surrey 183-2 in reply to Somerset's 512-9 declared. Zander de Bruyn has 47.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Despite losing Jason Roy to a superb catch at deep square leg by Craig Meschede, Surrey have not held back. The hosts are now 111-2 after 19 overs. Steven Davies's contribution is 64.

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  • LUNCH - Surrey v Somerset
    Well that was an eventful twenty-minute period prior to lunch. After losing Rudolph for one, Roy, batting at three in the absence of Ramprakash, and Davies collected five boundaries; not all of them off the middle of the bat. Surrey 31-1 after five overs.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Jamie Overton strikes with his fifth ball, undoing Jacques Rudolph with a leg stump yorker. Surrey 5-1 in reply to 512-9 declared.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset have declared on 512-9. Jamie Overton, who was dropped at second slip on nine, finishes with an unbeaten 34. Surrey will need to negotiate a twenty-minute period before lunch.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Jamie Overton has just taken Somerset past the 500-mark with the first of two leg-side fours off de Bruyn. Edwards and Jordan, who are on the pitch, have not yet been called upon to bowl today.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset have just lost three wickets in the space of nine balls. They are now 474-9 with Meschede edging Lewis to first slip and Philander, driving at a ball that looked full in length, going caught behind. We now have a pair of Overtons in the middle.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    George Dockrell goes for 11, having given Steven Davies some catching practise off Jon Lewis. Somerset 471-7.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset have now racked up their highest total in SE11, beating the 463 they made against Surrey in 1997. Somerset currently 465-6.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Other than Peter Trego falling to the second ball of the day, caught at second slip off Stuart Meaker, the pitch has continued to look full of runs. Somerset are now 451-6.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Hildreth goes for 120. Playing half-forward to a de Bruyn off-cutter he was sent packing lbw by umpire Trevor Jesty. The Somerset right-hander batted a shade over three hours for his 16 fours and the only six of day one. Somerset are 441-5 at stumps. 

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Somerset
    Hundred for Hildreth. The stylish 27-year-old posts the 26th ton of his first-clas career from 117 balls and with 14 boundaries. With his side on 431 for four, Somerset and Hildreth appear in total command after the opening day at TheOval.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Jason Roy hobbles off at the Oval with Somerset charging on at 374 for three. Roy, fielding at short leg, was hit in the left shin by a full-blooded sweep by Craig Kieswetter and left the ground in clear discomfort. 

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  • Worcestershire v Sussex
    Ben Brown and Naved Arif staging a mini recovery for Sussex, putting on 46 for the 6th wicket so far ... 213 for 6

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Compton falls to the last ball before tea. Trapped on the back foot by a Zander de Bruyn off-cutter, Compton goes lbw for 83 to leave Somerset on 290 for three at the interval.

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Somerset
    Fifty to in-form Nick Compton. The former Middlesex man hit five fours in reaching the milestone from 106 balls. Somerset continue to make serene progress having reached 250 for two inside 53 overs. 

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    Just about the only way Surrey might get a wicket - a run out. Sent back by Nick Compton after a push to mid-wicket, Suppiah failed to re-make his ground at the non-striker's end from Tom Maynard's throw. 206 for two and Suppiah contributed 106 in a stand of 143 in 31 overs.

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Somerset
    Suppiah Century and another loose delivery from the Surrey attack; this time leg-side and over-pitched by Gareth Batty which allows Suppiah to sweep for the 17th boundary of his 129-ball ton. It is the eighth century of the right-hander's first-class career.

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Somerset
    Century stand for the second Somerset wicket between Suppiah and Compton. They reached the milestone in 23 overs and are hardly being made to work for their runs by an off-colour Surrey attack who cannot seem to maintain any decent lines, let alone lengths.  Somerset 181-1.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    This eagle-eyed reporter has just spotted that it's also day one of the Surrey Beer Festival here at The Oval. One of the beers on offer is Wadsworth's "By The Horns" which is the sort of grasp Somerset's batsmen appear to be having on the game just now.

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  • LUNCH - Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset are looking good at the break having reached 109 for one after 28 overs. Arul Suppiah is unbeaten on 44 on what appears to be a belting wicket at the Oval. A good toss to win for the men from the West Country.

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Somerset
    Hundred up for Somerset in the 24th over of the day. Surrey really aren't bowling that well on a pitch that sweated under the covers for much of yesterday. Jonathan Lewis dropped short allowing Arul Suppiah to rock back for a back-foot force to deep cover.

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Surrey's mid-wicket fielder Chris Jordan collides with square leg umpire Trevor Jesty when trying to field a ball. Jesty is felled, but Jordan comes off worse and has to leave the field for an injury to his face.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Somerset
    After a bright and breezy 47 from 48 balls Barrow becomes the first Somerset victim of the match. Fencing at a short one from Meaker he picked out Zander de Bruyn in the gully to make it 63 for one after 15 overs at a blissfully sunny Oval.  

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  • Cricket Diary: Ramps' class is permanent
    By Richard Gibson
    Even in his 40s, Mark Ramprakash getting dropped by Surrey was unthinkable 12 months ago – and highly unlikely on face value on the very day he bagged only his second pair in 26 seasons

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  • Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset have made a pretty good start - 44-0 after ten overs. Alex Barrow has really caught the eye by straight driving Stuart Meaker for four before despatching Chris Jordan to the rope at cover in classic fashion.

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  • Team News - Surrey v Somerset
    Somerset have won the toss Surrey make three changes, which have benefited Roy, Jordan and Meaker. For Somerset, Buttler and Compton return and Jamie Overton makes his first-class debut.

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  • Big-hitter Levi lined up by Somerset
    Richard Latham
    Big-hitting South African batsman Richard Levi looks set play for Somerset in this season’s Friends Life t20 competition.

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  • Youthful vigour enlivening CB40
    By Tim Wellock
    Durham's Clydesdale Bank 40 match against Somerset was a glowing advert for the benefits of youth and athleticism in one-day cricket.

    15/05/2012 (372 days old) | Read more
  • Bad weather now influencing Championship positions
    By Andrew Hignell
    The prolonged bad weather that has afflicted the start of the season is now beginning to have a clear influence on where each of the 18 first-class counties lie in the LV= County Championship tables.

    14/05/2012 (373 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Durham v Somerset
    Alex Barrow, 20 last week, has made  a 54-ball half-century on his CB 40 debut. Somerset need 40 off four with two wickets left

    13/05/2012 (374 days old) | Read more
  • Durham v Somerset
    Suppiah and Meschede put on 57 before Plunkett's first senior action of the season saw him remove both. His first ball was short and wide but Suppiah cracked it to backward point and Smith took a fine catch. Meschede sliced a drive to a similar spot.

    13/05/2012 (374 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Durham v Somerset
    An opening stand of 61 settled Durham's jitters, but they have lost both openers and are 92-2. Will Smith reached for a ball wide of off stump and edged Peter Trego to second slip, then Michael Di Venuto spooned Craig Meschede to cover to fall for 38.

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  • LUNCH - Durham v Somerset
    Durham are 16-0. A couple have gone past the bat, but with Philander bowling within himself they appear to have little cause for alarm

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  • Leicestershire v Northamptonshire
    Northants, having declared their second innings on 26-0, against occasional bowling, have set Leics 341 to win

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  • Durham v Somerset
    Not so grand up north today. It's back to building the ark.

    10/05/2012 (377 days old) | Read more
  • County bosses called to domestic structure summit
    By Paul Bolton
    Senior officials of the England and Wales Cricket Board and a group of county chief executives will meet in London next week in an attempt to finally break the deadlock over the future structure of county cricket.

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  • Close Of Play - Durham v Somerset
    Somerset were 220-8, leading by 95, when bad light ended play. They added 155 in 29 overs in the evening with Meschede making 62 in his stand of 107 with Kieswetter, who was unbeaten on 60. Thorp picked up three late wickets to spare Durham's blushes

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  • WICKET - Durham v Somerset
    Meschede followed up his career-best bowling of 3-26 with his best score of 62, racing to 50 off 45 balls with 11 fours. He finally edged Callum Thorp to first slip to end a stand of 107 with Kieswetter, the other Johannesburg-born Craig

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  • Durham v Somerset
    Somerset have forged ahead through some bold strokeplay from Craig Meschede, who has raced to 45 in an unbroken stand of 69 with Craig Kieswetter. On 164-5 they lead by 39.

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  • Close of Play: Worcestershire v Surrey
    Rain is the winner at New Road! Play abandoned for the day with Worcs 58-0.

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