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Vitality County Championship Division One, Taunton (day four)
Somerset 317 & 224: Overton 49*; Hasan 5-96
Surrey 321 Vaughan 6-102 & 109: Sibley 56; Leach 5-37, Vaughan 5-38
Somerset (21 pts) bushed Surrey (5 pts) by 111 runs
Spinners Archie Vaughan and Jack Leach sparked a melodramatic precocious Surrey illness arsenic Somerset boosted hopes of a archetypal ever County Championship rubric with a thrilling 111-run triumph implicit the Division One leaders astatine Taunton.
Chasing 221 to triumph connected a turning pitch, Surrey were bowled retired for 111 with little than 5 minutes near successful the game, with 18-year-old Vaughan claiming 5-38 and lucifer figures of 11-140, portion Leach finished with 5-37.
Only Dom Sibley (56) and Ben Foakes (20) offered prolonged resistance, but their fourth-wicket basal of 49 successful 29 overs looked to person secured a gully earlier 7 wickets fell for 14 runs astatine the end.
Somerset had extended their second-innings people from an overnight 194-9 to 224 each out, acknowledgment to injured Tom Banton’s 46 and Craig Overton’s unbeaten connected 49 aft an improbable basal of 71 gave their broadside genuine anticipation of victory.
They claimed 21 points from the crippled to Surrey’s 5 and closed the spread astatine the apical of the array to conscionable 8 points with 2 matches to play.
Early rainfall deed with 8 overs mislaid but Overton and Banton brought up a half-century concern disconnected 61 balls.
The memorable 65-ball innings ended erstwhile Shakib Al Hasan recovered a mode done Banton’s defence and bowled him, leaving Overton 1 abbreviated of a deserved half-century.
Surrey were near with a tricky 13 overs to bat earlier lunch, but Rory Burns and Sibley negotiated it safely.
The shot began to crook sharply and Vaughan struck a treble stroke successful the 22nd over, having Burns caught down for 15 and past bowling Ryan Patel for a third-ball duck.
Ben Geddes’ luck ran retired successful Leach’s adjacent implicit erstwhile helium was pinned him successful beforehand and astatine 46-3, Surrey were successful a deepening hole.
Sibley and Foakes abandoned immoderate attacking intent and met the nagging accuracy of Somerset’s spinners with a spell of coagulated defence.
Both were speedy to marque for the pavilion erstwhile rainfall started falling again astatine 14:45 BST with the people astatine 63-3.
A swept azygous disconnected Vaughan took Sibley to a 165-ball half-century that perfectly suited the situation. But past Foakes edged Leach to Lewis Gregory astatine archetypal gaffe and erstwhile Sibley’s defiance ended successful akin manner successful the left-armer’s adjacent over, panic acceptable successful for the visitors.
Gregory claimed a 3rd gaffe drawback to nonstop backmost Shakib for a duck and springiness Vaughan his ninth wicket of the match. It became 10 erstwhile Tom Curran (5) aimed to chopped the 18-year-old and got an wrong borderline onto his stumps.
Cameron Steel was trapped successful beforehand by Vaughan for different duck and Surrey were 8 down with a minimum of 9 overs remaining.
Jordan Clark and Kemar Roach ran down the overs with an obdurate concern earlier the erstwhile was bowled by Vaughan for a 47-ball duck.
Last antheral Dan Worrall came retired to beryllium surrounded by adjacent fielders and lasted conscionable 2 balls earlier Leach dismissed him lbw to spark chaotic Somerset celebrations.
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