Somerset surge to innings win
Somerset needed just 75 minutes of the final day to record their first win of the season by an innings and 11 runs against the leaders Sussex.
Somerset needed just 75 minutes of the final day to record their first win of the season by an innings and 11 runs against the leaders Sussex.
J Lewis b Gregory 7 (27m 9b 1x4 0x6) SR: 77.77
Ashar Zaidi, the Sussex allrounder, has been given a suspended one-match ban by the club following his Twitter reaction after being dismissed in the first innings against Somerset
Somerset needed just 75 minutes of the final day to record their first win of the season by an innings and 11 runs against the leaders Sussex.
Somerset forced Sussex to follow on under heavy skies and then rounded upon them once more with such conviction on a sunlit evening that they even had the glimmer of a three-day victory
County cricket has sustained Marcus Trescothick for nearly eight long years since his England career came to such a premature end
Marcus Trescothick has been the mainstay of Somerset cricket for so long that any sign that he is beginning to rediscover some of his old poise is bound to quicken West Country hearts