Somerset v Warwickshire - Friends Life T20 – Midlands/Wales/West Group - Somerset win by 63 runs - Live Score and Update
Somerset 191/6 (20/20 ov) v Warwickshire 128 (18.5/20 ov) - Somerset won by 63 runs
Somerset won their Friends Life T20 match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warwickshire-c862 by 63 runs on Wednesday, at County Ground, Taunton after bolstering a total of 191 runs for the loss of six wickets while batting first in the T20 match.
Warwickshire after winning the toss chose to field first in a bid to restrict the opposition on a small total, and the bowlers did considerably well as the prevented Somerset from reaching a tally of 200 runs.
The target was intimidating enough but at the same time not unreachable and all Warwickshire was a solid batting performance to overcome the required target.
They had a tremendous start to their innings as openers LJ Evans and V Chopra gave staggered an opening stand of 40 runs to leave the opposition flabbergasted.
The two batsmen launched a barrage some heavy hitting which wrecked havoc on the bowling side and it was evident for Somerset that for them to win the match, they needed to break the partnership which was seemingly heading towards the finish line.
Finally http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dawid-Malan-c1344 Thomas gave his side the much needed breakthrough as he dismissed Evans for 17 runs.
This was queue was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Somerset-c843 to tighten the screws around the batting side and MTC Waller rose to the occasion by nabbing four wickets in four overs and conceding only 16 runs as he annihilated Warwickshire middle-order by grabbing the most important wickets.
Number-three batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/WTS-Porterfield-c2801 was Waller’s first victim as the batsman was dismissed for four runs, at a time when his side had amassed 48 runs.
Then without the addition of a run in the total score, Warwickshire lost their third wicket on the demise of DL Maddy, who was given leg-before wicket on a delivery by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Waller-c95917.
The wicket of Chopra was then grabbed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GH-Dockrell-c1484 as the batsman perished after scoring an innings of 37 runs. He was later the highest scorer from his team as none of the remaining batsmen could muster a bigger knock.
In the end Warwickshire crumbled on a tally of 128 runs in 18.5 overs, losing the match by large margin.
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