Somerset trail by 218 runs against Yorkshire on third day – Cricket news
At stumps on the third day of play between Yorkshire and Somerset, the latter trail by 218 runs with six wickets down in reply to Yorkshire’s first innings score of 450 runs at County Ground, Taunton.
After hammering a convincing score of 341 runs for the loss of five wickets in their first innings, Yorkshire had the hallmarks of ending on a huge total.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andy-Hodd-c1047 came out to resume their partnership with score of 47 and 24 on their back. It was important for the two batsmen to stay in the middle for as long as possible to better their lead against their opponents.
The two batsmen continued their outstanding form as they looked extremely composed and well determined to end big.
While Rashid stayed unbeaten on 103, Hodd on 68, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yorkshire-c867 chose to end their innings after posting a daunting score on the board.
From http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gemaal-Hussain-c1479 was the best bowler with two wickets to his name in 25 overs.
Somerset then had a decent start to their innings as openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Steven-Patterson-c2585 for five.
With the opener back in the pavilion, it was time for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lewis-Gregory-c72822 to take the field, but he could score only three runs before getting trapped in front of stumps against Patterson. At the time of this wicket, the batting side was on 52 runs.
Trescothick and Dean Elgar then crafted a potent resistance against the bowling attack and managed to take the score to 103 runs, before http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rich-Pyrah-c2311 nabbed the prized wicket of Trescothick, who crumbled after hammering 74 runs off 101 deliveries.
Then later, with 120 on the scoreboard the batting side lost their fourth wicket when Dean Elgar perished with 28 runs to his name.
Things were now looking difficult for the batting side, however, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Hildreth-c1647 and Alex Barrow crafted an important partnership as they took the score to 172, before the latter became the next batsmen to lose his wicket after he had scored 26 runs.
Meanwhile, Hildreth played a stupendous knock 76 runs at stayed unbeaten when the day was called.
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