Somerset v Durham - County Championship Division One - Day 1 - Live Score and Update
Durham 353/8 (96.0 ov) – Durham won the toss and chose to bat
At stumps on the first day of the four-day game between Somerset and Durham, the latter have managed to clobber an impressive tally of 353 runs for the loss of eight wickets at County Ground, Taunton.
Hoping to have a full day’s play without the possibility of rain ruining the competition, Durham, chose to bat on winning the toss as they wanted to post maximum runs in their first innings to achieve superiority over their rivals.
Openers MJ Di Venuto and WR Smith gave an insurmountable batting performance as the duo proved just too good for the fielding side, smashing brilliant shots all around the park to give http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Somerset-c843 a run for their money.
Bowlers like PD Trego, J Overton and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dawid-Malan-c1344 Thomas were made to pay as the batsmen made mincemeat of their bowling.
Finally with a massive total of 158 runs on the board, Durham suffered the loss of their first wicket on the departure of Di Venuto, who found his way back to the pavilion after hammering a brilliant innings of 96 runs.
Number-three batsman, MD Stoneman, then had his share of fun by clobbering 27 runs before losing his wicket on a run out, leaving his side on a tally of 232 runs.
WR http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Smith-c90598, who was looking so good in the middle, became the third casualty from his side as he lost his wicket after clobbering a well tamed innings of 100 runs.
It was then time for phenomenal middle-order batsman, BA Stokes to take charge alongside former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/PD-Collingwood-c2173 to dominate the bowlers.
However, Collingwood continued his bad run with the bat as he hit the showers after scoring just 12 runs.
Then with 295 runs on the scoreboard, the batting side lost the services of ID Blackwell who faltered after scoring a meagre knock of seven runs.
Meanwhile, Stokes and skipper, P Mustard jabbed another daunting partnership which came to its ultimate end when Stokes lost his wicket after hammering a 60-run knock. At the time of his demise, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Durham-c782 were comfortably standing on 326 runs.
Later the side ended the day with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/J-Harrison-c64855 on three runs.
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