da blaze casino： Somerset held on for a 15-run victory over Yorkshire in the Norwich UnionLeague game at Bath, despite some thumping lows from Darren Lehmann in theclosing stages
Mark Easterbrook17-Jun-2001Somerset held on for a 15-run victory over Yorkshire in the Norwich UnionLeague game at Bath, despite some thumping lows from Darren Lehmann in theclosing stages.After Peter Bowler’s 97 and Ian Blackwell’s 76 had steered Somerset to259-7, Yorkshire found themselves at 145-2 with ten overs left.But Lehmann got cracking and his unbeaten, 67-ball innings of 75, whichincluded four fours and three sixes, kept hopes alive until the final over.He and Yorkshire captain David Byas put on 103 for the third wicket, butByas’s anchor role 81 from 118 balls was a touch slow initially.Steffan Jones was the pick of Somerset’s bowlers with 4-40 while Jamie Groveand Keith Dutch took spectacular catches in the deep to remove Byas and GaryFellows.After being put into bat, Somerset lost makeshift opener Jason Kerr, PiranHollway and pinch-hitter Richard Johnson to Paul Hutchison’s left-arm seamto leave them on 53-3 inside 12 overs.But Mark Lathwell helped Bowler put on 57 for the next wicket, before beingstumped off Ian Fisher, and then Blackwell joined Somerset’s former captainfor their match-winning stand.Bowler, who missed the Championship game with Yorkshire because he wassitting law exams in Nottingham, struck ten fours and a six in his 129-ballinnings before being denied his sixth limited overs century by a MatthewHoggard catch at short fine leg off Gavin Hamilton.Blackwell lived up to his big-hitting reputation by cracking five fours andfour sixes in his 54-ball innings, which ended with a skied slog that gaveCraig White a return catch.Rob Turner and Mike Burns maintained the tempo with an unbroken eighth-wicket stand of 24 from the last three overs.But it was a bowling display to forget for England international Hoggard,who bowled four no-balls in his nine-over spell of 1-72.