Somerset beat the rain to record their second championship win of the season

Somerset recorded their second championship victory of the season when they beat Glamorgan by an innings and 143 runs at Taunton earlier this afternoon.

Resuming on 29 for 1 it was Nixon McLean carrying on where he left off in the first innings who claimed the first wicket to fall, when he tempted Adrian Dale to give a catch to skipper Mike Burns in the slips.

His overnight partner David Hemp was next to go, when with the score on 58 he gave a catch to Rob Turner off McLean, followed two overs later by Jonathan Hughes who exited in exactly the same manner to give the West Indian the first three wickets to fall.

The next three batsmen fell to the young all rounder Aaron Laraman who accounted for Mike Powell LBW in the twenty ninth over, he then bowled Mark Wallace two over later before tempting Robert Croft into chipping a straightforward catch to Ian Blackwell at mid wicket.

Richard Johnson tempted David Harrison into giving a catch to Turner with the score on 111, and then in the last over before lunch Simon Francis took the prize scalp of Matthew Maynard after the veteran batter had scored 30.

During the interval the rain fell down, but abated sufficiently for the players to return to the pitch, and in the fourth over of the afternoon session Alex Wharf edged Johnson to give wicket-keeper Turner his eighth victim of the match. Glamorgan were all out for 133 to give Somerset a well deserved victory.

In the visitors second innings McLean took 3 for 38, to record match figures of 8 for 81 and take his championship wicket tally this season to 22, whilst Laraman completed a good all round performance by taking 3 for 20 from his six overs.

At the end of the game Somerset coach Kevin Shine told me: "We deserved that victory, and we carried it out in a very professional manner .It was the ultimate in team performances with everybody contributing with bat and ball, but if I had to pick out one person then it must be Nixon McLean who bowled magnificently throughout the game."

Chief executive Peter Anderson added: "I'm very pleased for the captain and the players who have not enjoyed the best of luck this year. They have played lots of cricket without success but they thoroughly deserved their victory today and well done to them all, it is exactly what was needed."