Somerset v Warwickshire - Friends Life T20 – Midlands/Wales/West Group - Somerset post a target of 192 runs - Live Score and Update
Somerset 191/6 (20/20 ov) – Warwickshire won the toss and chose to field
In their Friends Life T20 match, Somerset amassed a decent total of 191 runs against Warwickshire on Wednesday, in a match that was played at County Ground, Taunton.
After winning the toss, Warwickshire chose to put the opposition in to bat in order for their bowlers to have a go at them and reduced them on a small total.
However, Somerset openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/C-Kieswetter-c1206 and RE Levi forged an opening stand of 22 runs as they batted well against the bowling attack they were up against.
Finally Warwickshire’s strike bowler CR Woakes broke the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gareth-Berg-c1457 by nabbing the wicket of Kieswetter in the third over of the match after the batsman had bolstered a knock of 20 runs off 17 deliveries.
With the star batsman back in the pavilion, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warwickshire-c862 knew that this was the time for them to grab a couple of more quick wickets to put the batting side under enormous pressure and grab an easy win.
In the fifth over, PD Trego became http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Somerset-c843’s second wicket to fall as he was nabbed by Woakes after scoring only three runs.
Opener RE Levi then forged a potent partnership with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jonathan-Clare-c1729 Buttler as the duo took the score to 77 runs before the latter lost his wicket after jabbing a 15-run knock.
The opener then got a great partner in the form of JA Morkel as the two formed a resounding partnership to rip the bowling attack into bits.
The two batsmen exhibited their tremendous batting talents against the bowlers by hammering them out of town, giving fans plenty to cheer about.
In a matter of few overs, the bowling side that had dominated the batsmen, were reduced to rubble and finding it extremely difficult to contain the flow of runs.
Finally with 144 runs on the board, the intimidating partnership was broken by DL Maddy, who dismissed Levi for 69 runs.
Later http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JA-Morkel-c1613 was run out for 38 runs as the team managed to amass a fightable total on the board with the loss of six wickets.
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