Joe Root played a starring role with the ball as Yorkshire completed a remarkable 75-run County Championship Division One victory over Somerset at Taunton.<\/p>\n
The visitors were able to add only six runs to their second innings score at the start of play, Jhye Richardson reaching a 122-ball half-century before being caught behind off Craig Overton, who finished with 4-94 in a total of 371.<\/p>\n
It left Somerset facing a target of 260 to achieve a third Championship victory in four games on a flat pitch. <\/p>\n
They soon slumped to 21-3 and were eventually bowled out for 184 shortly after tea, Root claiming 4-49 and fellow spinner Dom Bess 4-60 as Josh Thomas top-scored with 57 for the home side.<\/p>\n
It meant Yorkshire took 19 points from a game in which they conceded a first innings lead of 112 and defeat cost Somerset the Division One leadership as they had to be content with four points.<\/p>\n
The morning session was played under mainly blue skies. But after Overton’s early strike had ended Yorkshire’s fighting second innings, the hosts suffered all-too-familiar top order batting frailty.<\/p>\n
Archie Vaughan was bowled for four playing down the wrong line to a delivery from George Hill, who then switched ends to clip Tom Lammonby’s off stump as he shouldered arms to a ball angled into him.<\/p>\n
When James Rew was caught behind driving at former Somerset off-spinner Bess, the hosts were in disarray and, with 239 still needed, Yorkshire were favourites.<\/p>\n
Tom Abell suffered no alarms in moving to 24 by lunch, which was taken at 57-3, with first innings centurion Thomas unbeaten on 23.<\/p>\n
The pair had extended their stand to 64 when Abell, on 41, pushed forward to Bess and edged to Hill at slip to make the score 85-4. <\/p>\n
Teenager Thomas Rew walked to the wicket facing the possibility of bagging a pair on his Championship debut. But the 18-year-old soon eased any nerves by getting off the mark with a sweetly-timed boundary through the covers off Bess.<\/p>\n
Bess found some extravagant turn to beat the outside edge of Thomas’s bat, but the left-hander survived to reach 50 off 140 balls.<\/p>\n
Rew was not afraid to go for his shots and, while an early reverse sweep off Bess resulted in a confident appeal for a catch at short-leg, the youngster was soon showing the quality that made him England Under-19 captain at the age of 17.<\/p>\n
The second 50-stand of the innings occupied 15 overs and, with the sun shining brightly, Somerset looked back in control, but fortunes swung again when Thomas pushed forward to Bess and edged a routine catch to slip.<\/p>\n
Now 124 runs were needed with five wickets down and all results were still possible. <\/p>\n
Yorkshire were celebrating again six runs later as Rew, on 30, attempted to slash a wide delivery from Root through point and edged to wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow.<\/p>\n
Root struck again when Overton flicked a delivery from outside off stump straight into the hands of Adam Lyth at short-leg, who held a sharp reaction catch, and at tea Somerset were 167-7, needing a further 93.<\/p>\n
With just six more added, Will Smeed edged a back-foot shot off Root and departed for 17. <\/p>\n
The following delivery was wide but Migael Pretorius offered a return catch off an ugly swing and Bess completed Somerset’s demise by bowling last man Alfie Ogborne, leaving skipper Lewis Gregory 22 not out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Root played a starring role with the ball as Yorkshire completed a remarkable 75-run County Championship Division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-649827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}