Somerset v Durham - County Championship Division One - Day 2 - Live Score and Update
Durham 384 v Somerset 357/8 (84.0 ov) - Somerset trail by 27 runs with 2 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
At stumps on the second day of the four-day match between Somerset and Durham in the ongoing County Championship Division One tournament, Somerset trail by 27 runs with two wickets remaining in their first innings, at County Ground, Taunton.
The day began with Durham resuming their first innings from a total of 353 for the loss of eight wickets with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/J-Harrison-c64855 coming out for their side to take the field.
Somerset medium-pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Peter-Trego-c2181, who grabbed two wickets a day earlier, completed his three-wicket haul by dismissing Harrison, who departed after scoring an innings of 15 runs at a time when his team had amassed 366 runs on the board.
Plunkett then batted for a while to deny Somerset an early chance to begin their innings, but then fell after hammering a knock of 24 runs with his team on a tally of 384.
Somerset then had a shocking beginning to their first innings as they lost their opener AV Suppiah with only six runs on the board.
However, AWR Barrow and NRD Compton forged a resilient comeback as they took the score to 66 runs before the demise Barrow, who perished after playing a knock of 25 runs.
This brought skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jonathan-Clare-c1729 Hildreth, on the crease and he also crafted a handsome partnership with Compton, hammering away the bowlers, in a bid to amass a mammoth total by the end of their first innings.
Finally with 138 runs on the board, after making Durham bowlers look like a puny outfit, Somerset’s skipper lost his wicket with an innings of 53 runs to his name.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Durham-c782 then struck against at a time when Somerset had amassed 199 runs by grabbing the wicket of Compton, who fell after playing a well tamed innings of 64 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GH-Dockrell-c1484 on three runs.
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