Somerset v Middlesex - County Championship Division One - Match Update
Middlesex 118/4 (36.0 ov) v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Somerset-c843 - Somerset won the toss and elected to field
On Thursday, April 05, Somerset and Middlesex went head to head in the County Championship Division One four-day match, at County Ground, Taunton.
The hosts, Somerset, after winning the toss elected to field first and keeping the importance of the championship, they wanted to start the season on a winning note for which it was imperative to subdue http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817 early on without letting them get carried away.
On the other hand, with the top teams in English county participating in the tournament, Middlesex were by no means an easy side to run over.
Nonetheless, Middlesex received a daunting blow by Somerset as they dismissed their opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sam-Robson-c2421 on the third delivery of the match. The batsman lost his wicket without scoring a run, putting his team under pressure early on.
However, Middlesex recovered from this early blow as opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chris-Rogers-c1249 forged a well crafted resistance against the bowlers in order to steer their team out of trouble.
Somerset failed to stop the flow of runs which took Middlesex’s tally to 51 before fans saw the demise of the second wicket of the day.
This time, it was Rogers who faltered as he could bolster only 17 runs before finding his way back to the pavilion.
With two wickets down, Middlesex still looked strong and heading towards mustering a big total on the board.
24-year-old left-hand batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dawid-Malan-c1344, was the next man to walk in and he also seemed in good touch as he hammered a few impressive shots to leave the hosts in disbelief.
While, Denly seemed in impeccable form, his batting partner Malan became the third wicket of the day as he was dismissed after hammering an innings of 12 runs. At the time of his demise Middlesex were standing on 90 runs.
Skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Neil-Dexter-c2091, then made a small contribution of eight runs off 12 deliveries before losing his stumps.
Nevertheless, Middlesex ended the day by hammering 118 runs with Denly standing unbeaten on 64 and wicketkeeper/batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Simpson-c1722 on a tally of two.
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