Notts trounced at Taunton

Willoughby and Thomas bowl hosts to three-day win at Taunton

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Notts trounced at Taunton

Thomas: five-wicket haul in Nottinghamshire's second innings

LV County Championship - Division One
Taunton - Day Three
Somerset 517 (J C Hildreth 142, J C Buttler 88, C Kieswetter 73, P D Trego 54, D J Pattinson 5-95) & 13-0 v Nottinghamshire 339 (S R Patel 104, C M W Read 80, M J Wood 72, C M Willoughby 6-101) & 190 (A C Thomas 5-47)
Somerset (24pts) beat Nottinghamshire (5pts) by 10 wkts

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Somerset crushed Nottinghamshire by 10 wickets inside three days to register their fourth win in their last five LV=County Championship outings.

The battle between the two title rivals went the way of the hosts at Taunton thanks to the efforts of new-ball pairing Charl Willoughby and Alfonso Thomas.

Left-armer Willoughby picked up first-innings figures of 6-101- including taking four wickets for 26 runs in the morning session - to make sure Nottinghamshire were forced to follow-on.

Resuming on 278-5, the visitors collapsed to 339 all out despite an excellent century from Samit Patel, the all-rounder hitting 104 from 185 balls.

Skipper Chris Read also made 80 but once his sixth-wicket stand of 157 with Patel came to an end, the lower order folded in a hurry to give Marcus Trescothick the chance to ask them to bat again.

Thomas then claimed 5-40 to skittle Nottinghamshire for 190, Ali Brown one of his victims having made a top score of 47. Zander De Bruyn and Murali Kartik weighed in with two wickets apiece.

Left chasing 13 for victory, Trescothick and opening partner Nick Compton reached the target in just 11 balls. Somerset pick up 24 points from the game to leave themselves 11 behind Division One leaders Yorkshire with a game in hand.

Day Two

Craig Kieswetter found some form with the bat as Somerset were all out for 517 on day two of their championship match against Nottinghamshire.

It was only his ninth innings of the season due to England commitments but his 73 came after poor run of form and helped to assert Somerset's first day authority.

Kieswetter and Peter Trego put on 113 for the seventh wicket, the latter dropped on 38 by Matt Wood before going on to make 54 before Darren Pattinson (5-95) finally got his man, Mark Wagh taking a catch at deep cover.

The ball was starting to turn though and Samit Patel picked up both Kieswetter and Charl Willoughby while Alfonso Thomas added a valuable 30 not out.

Nottinghamshire were in trouble in their reply after Wood and Alex Hales put on 41 for the first wicket, spinner Murali Karthik catching Hales' edge with Marcus Trescothick taking the catch at slip.

Wagh followed soon after when driving Trego to Zander de Bruyn at short extra cover, but Wood and Patel steadied the ship with a stand of 71, the former passing 50 off 87 balls.

But with the total on 119 he edged another spinner Arul Suppiah, to Trescothick as the visitors went in at 128 for three at tea, and when Willoughby struck twice in the same over shortly afterwards they were rocking.

David Hussey gave Trescothick a third catch and then two balls later Ali Brown hit straight to De Bruyn at cover.

But Chris Read survived a difficult chance to Kartik at slip off Willoughby when on five and he made them pay, his half-century coming from just 58 balls with 11 boundaries.

However, it was Patel who starred with an unbeaten 92 as Notts battled back in the final session, the pair adding 148 in difficult circumstances to keep their side in the match.

Day One

Somerset overcame the loss of Marcus Trescothick to the first ball of their latest LV County Championship match to dominate the Nottinghamshire attack.

The former England opener was bowled by Darren Pattinson (4-76) but the hosts regrouped and reached 423 for six at the close, James Hildreth leading the way with 142.

Somerset were still not out of the woods when Hildreth came to the crease with the score on 126 for four, but his partnership of 210 with Jos Buttler (88no) swung the match in his side's favour.

And when the pair fell within the space of two overs, replacements Craig Kieswetter and Peter Trego successfully saw out the final 16 overs of the day with a fruitful seventh wicket stand of 76.

Pattinson was the architect of Somerset's early troubles as he took three wickets either side of lunch.

In the absence of Ryan Sidebottom - who injured his knee in the warm-up - Pattinson stepped up to take out Trescothick's leg stump, and Nick Compton made 17 before edging the same bowler to second slip.

Arul Suppiah battled his way to 30 before he edged a defensive shot and gave a catch to Alex Hales at first slip off Andre Adams, and first ball after lunch Pattinson was at it again to remove Zander de Bruyn lbw for 44 to make it 126 for four.

But that's as good as it got for the visitors as Hildreth and 19-year-old Buttler took control, the former reaching a chanceless century - his fourth of the campaign - before tea.

The 25-year-old former England Lions player had faced 128 balls and hit 13 fours in a typically attractive knock. He has now scored 846 Championship runs this summer at an average of over 60.

Buttler was 12 short of his own ton when he went down the track to spinner Samit Patel and was bowled, and when Notts took the new ball Pattinson returned to end Hildreth's knock - remarkably with the first delivery - when the batsman holed out to Mark Wagh at deep square leg.

But it was still Somerset's day as Peter Trego (36 not out) and Craig Kieswetter (43 not out) guided them to maximum batting points.