Somerset collapse without Trescothick
A round-up of all the action from the third day of the latest matches in Division Two of the County Championship
Cricinfo staff
22-Apr-2005
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Somerset 182 and 109 for 4 trail Yorkshire 501 for 9 dec (Harvey 209*) by 210 runs
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There was a dramatic day allround at Headingley as Somerset plunged towards an innings defeat without Marcus Trescothick, their captain, who had to leave the match to return to his wife who was expected to give birth earlier than was thought. Without their skipper Somerset were spineless. Firstly Ian Harvey continued to carve up their attack and crunched his way to a maiden double-century and then their batting fell in a heap. Sanath Jayasuriya suffered a nightmare debut, out twice in the day for 0 and 7, caught off Matthew Hoggard in the first innings. But it was Deon Kruis, the South African seam bowler, and Tim Bresnan who did most of the damage. Bresnan backed-up his 74 with three first-innings wickets and Kruis ripped the Somerset top-order out when they followed-on, a massive 319 runs behind. Craig White nipped out Ian Blackwell before the close, as Ismail Dawood, the wicketkeeper, took his fifth catch and they had a chance to wrap up victory today until some belated resistance from John Francis and Aaron Laraman.
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There was a dramatic day allround at Headingley as Somerset plunged towards an innings defeat without Marcus Trescothick, their captain, who had to leave the match to return to his wife who was expected to give birth earlier than was thought. Without their skipper Somerset were spineless. Firstly Ian Harvey continued to carve up their attack and crunched his way to a maiden double-century and then their batting fell in a heap. Sanath Jayasuriya suffered a nightmare debut, out twice in the day for 0 and 7, caught off Matthew Hoggard in the first innings. But it was Deon Kruis, the South African seam bowler, and Tim Bresnan who did most of the damage. Bresnan backed-up his 74 with three first-innings wickets and Kruis ripped the Somerset top-order out when they followed-on, a massive 319 runs behind. Craig White nipped out Ian Blackwell before the close, as Ismail Dawood, the wicketkeeper, took his fifth catch and they had a chance to wrap up victory today until some belated resistance from John Francis and Aaron Laraman.
Northamptonshire 433 for 6 dec and 45 for 0 lead Leicestershire 339 (Robinson 100, Jones 4-74) by 139 runs
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A determined century from Darren Robinson and some useful contributions from the enabled Leicestershire to get within 100 runs of Northamptonshire's first-innings. Robinson and Darren Maddy extended their opening stand to 135 before Steffan Jones claimed the top-three batsmen. The Northants bowlers continued to chip away and at 263 for 7 the follow-on looked a possibility. But the lower-order used the long handle to good effect, especially Claude Henderson who hit 30 from 27 balls. All the Northants bowlers took at least one wicket, but Jones was the pick with 4-74. It will now be down to David Sales to decide what sort of a target he wants to set Leicestershire and he could be tempted to put pressure on the fragile batting line-up.
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A determined century from Darren Robinson and some useful contributions from the enabled Leicestershire to get within 100 runs of Northamptonshire's first-innings. Robinson and Darren Maddy extended their opening stand to 135 before Steffan Jones claimed the top-three batsmen. The Northants bowlers continued to chip away and at 263 for 7 the follow-on looked a possibility. But the lower-order used the long handle to good effect, especially Claude Henderson who hit 30 from 27 balls. All the Northants bowlers took at least one wicket, but Jones was the pick with 4-74. It will now be down to David Sales to decide what sort of a target he wants to set Leicestershire and he could be tempted to put pressure on the fragile batting line-up.