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Sussex v Somerset, Taunton, 3 days
August 4, 2011
Somerset 286 and 245 Sussex win 94 1 and 134 for nine wickets
Alfonso Thomas completed match figures of 10 to 88 of Somerset moved into the thick of the race Division County Championship title with a victory A nine wickets in Sussex at Taunton. The seamer said four of its six windows 28 on first innings as the visitors rolled to 134 after starting the day four at the third attempt 94. Murali Kartik returned four for 46 to help fall.
This left Somerset only need 94 to win their third successive championship. The cruise to the target overall 18.1 overs, Marcus Trescothick leads the way with 54 not out.
Somerset took 21 points from four wins for Sussex and create a real boost in their fight for a first title success after being crowned by the county of Nottinghamshire, the last day of last season.
The game was delayed until 1:40 pm tomorrow in the rain, after Michael Yardy and Joe Any vigilante played four girls before Thomas took a double hit from the old pavilion end. In the space of three balls he had taken third by Kartik Yardy slip 2 and Ben Brown pinned leg before from 94 to 6.
Charl Willoughby Thomas replaced when needed only two deliveries Ollie Rayner caught behind the eight ball fencing off stump. Anyone who survived until the total was 118, when he was 11 years IPN defensive play Kartik, having faced 71 balls. Monty Panesar four races later suffered the same fate at the foot back to the India left arm spinner.
Wayne Parnell was caught by Trescothick in the slips on the second attempt for 13 to give Thomas his second wicket match 10 and the popular South African was given a generous ovation when he led the team.
Trescothick did not intend hanging chasing a small target, and immediately hit the first two balls of the second sleeves Somerset, issued by Parnell, for four. By tea he and Arul Suppiah took their opening stand of 54 and 10 overs remaining doubt about the outcome was gone.
Suppiah was caught and passed by Rayner diving to his right for 22, but it was a minor blip as Trescothick eased half a century off 46 balls with six fours and two sixes.
August 4, 2011
Somerset 286 and 245 Sussex win 94 1 and 134 for nine wickets
Alfonso Thomas completed match figures of 10 to 88 of Somerset moved into the thick of the race Division County Championship title with a victory A nine wickets in Sussex at Taunton. The seamer said four of its six windows 28 on first innings as the visitors rolled to 134 after starting the day four at the third attempt 94. Murali Kartik returned four for 46 to help fall.
This left Somerset only need 94 to win their third successive championship. The cruise to the target overall 18.1 overs, Marcus Trescothick leads the way with 54 not out.
Somerset took 21 points from four wins for Sussex and create a real boost in their fight for a first title success after being crowned by the county of Nottinghamshire, the last day of last season.
The game was delayed until 1:40 pm tomorrow in the rain, after Michael Yardy and Joe Any vigilante played four girls before Thomas took a double hit from the old pavilion end. In the space of three balls he had taken third by Kartik Yardy slip 2 and Ben Brown pinned leg before from 94 to 6.
Charl Willoughby Thomas replaced when needed only two deliveries Ollie Rayner caught behind the eight ball fencing off stump. Anyone who survived until the total was 118, when he was 11 years IPN defensive play Kartik, having faced 71 balls. Monty Panesar four races later suffered the same fate at the foot back to the India left arm spinner.
Wayne Parnell was caught by Trescothick in the slips on the second attempt for 13 to give Thomas his second wicket match 10 and the popular South African was given a generous ovation when he led the team.
Trescothick did not intend hanging chasing a small target, and immediately hit the first two balls of the second sleeves Somerset, issued by Parnell, for four. By tea he and Arul Suppiah took their opening stand of 54 and 10 overs remaining doubt about the outcome was gone.
Suppiah was caught and passed by Rayner diving to his right for 22, but it was a minor blip as Trescothick eased half a century off 46 balls with six fours and two sixes.
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