Captain Marcus Trescothick scored his career's 5th double century in the first innings of Somerset against Worcestershire – Cricket News update
Somerset’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marcus-Trescothick-c1898 scored his double century in the 4-day match of the County Championship Division One against Worcestershire. The match between Somerset and Worcestershire took place at County Ground, New Road, Worcester from July 26, 2011.
Captain and opening batsman from Somerset, Marcus Trescothick along with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Arul-Suppiah-c1084 gave his team exactly the start it needed.
In the first wicket partnership, the openers added 207 runs to the team’s total and helped Somerset chase the challenging target given by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Worcestershire-c866.
There were 4 other players to score the half centuries and support the team and the opener well but Marcus Trescothick remained at the top. His knock of 203 runs at 296 balls helped Somerset take the lead and made it easy to chase the score laid by Worcestershire.
Trescothick’s double century was boosted with the help of 30 boundaries and it took him six-and-a-half hours to score this massive score.
When the match started, Worcestershire had won the toss and elected to bat first. Their openers did not contribute much but the batsmen at number 3, 4 and 5 helped them set a challenging score.
Worcestershire concluded its first innings at a total of 488 runs with all wickets down. They had played 129.4 overs and their run-rate remained at 3.76.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Peter-Trego-c2181 who took 3 wickets in 17.4 overs.
Somerset had a big total in front of them but the perfect start by the openers made it look very easy. Trescothick’s double century, Suppiah’s 88 runs, Compton’s knock of 95 runs and half centuries by Hildreth and Kieswetter were the highlights of the Somerset’s
charge.
Somerset declared the innings after scoring 591 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 151.5 overs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859 of Worcestershire was the most successful bowler as his knock of 5 wickets was of immense importance to the team lagging behind by 103 runs.
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