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A crushing win, 7 bowlers used and everyone taking at least one wicket. A good move to give Briggs the captaincy instead of Moeen, i thought he did a good job in rotating the bowlers throughout their innings.

OMG 57 all out! Moeen 2-2! 2 catches for Benjamin!

36 - 6, pleased that Lintott has taken a wicket.

What a start, 4 down already!

So who will Moeen come in for? If Davies is fit, then it probably will be Benjamin with Moeen in at 6. However, if Davies is out and Benjamin dons the gloves, then who will drop out - will Moeen just replace Davies and open the innings with Barnard? Or will they bring in Yates to open and Moeen to replace either Lintott or Miles?

Very interesting team selection to look forward to tomorrow!

A brilliant innings from Hain this evening, and Garton played his part too - a good little knock and 3 very good overs in the context of the match. I thought Mousley bowled well too, and Briggs has a habit of taking wickets in this format. We have 3 very winnable games coming up against Notts, Worcestershire & Derbyshire so hopefully after those 3 we should have qualified for the quarter-finals.

I think they'll stick with Benjamin & i expect Foulkes to come in for either Booth or Miles.

Poss Team: Davies, Barnard, Mousley, Hain, Bethell, Benjamin, Foulkes, Garton, Briggs, Booth/Miles, Lintott

So will Moeen Ali come back into the side tomorrow as captain? New signing Zak Foulkes played for the seconds this week against Glamorgan, scored 28 off 30 balls and finished with bowling figures of 3-0-35-0. Chris Benjamin also played and scored 14 off 11 balls.

Well, we went into the game with 8 batsmen and only 3 proper bowlers, one of them who is completely out of form. So what did we really expect? We were still in the game at tea, but afterwards the bowling tactics were so poor, just bowling straight balls to Abell and Banton allowing them easy singles and giving them a base to build their victory on. OHD was the only bowler to try and vary his bowling, but why did he end up bowling 4 less overs than Woakes? Poor captaincy, poor tactics and now 0 wins out of 9 and failing to bowl any team out twice - it's embarrassing.

A poor shot from Banton but we'll take that! Hopefully we can take another couple of wickets to really put the brake on.

Why are Woakes & Rhodes bowling striaght at the stumps? There's no pace on the wicket, it's easy for the batsmen just to push singles. Why not try a couple of balls outside off stump, a couple down leg or the odd bouncer? The tactics are awful.

We need an early wicket or two after tea to put the brake on. If these two are still in after another ten overs we could be looking down the barrel.

Somerset need 236 off 45 overs, we need to take a wicket desperately or we could end up losing this one.

Great catch from Barnard, i think we're in with a good chance of winning this game.

Bowling a bit loose so far, 34 off the first 6 overs.

It's a shame they didn't push Bethell up to 4, we might have declared by now and had them a couple of wickets down. I think we will bat for a few overs tomorrow morning to guarantee at least a draw, but i'm still hopeful we can bowl them out if we have enough overs. Here's hoping Chris Woakes can strike form tomorrow and grab a few early wickets.

What are we doing, playing for a draw? After 48 overs i was hoping we would have made around 200, we're around 70 runs short of where we would like to be. Hain 3 off 40 balls, what's that all about? Very strange tactics.

What a magnificent innings by Michael Burgess to score 147 batting at number 8. Credit to Woakes and Booth too for backing him up and taking the score past 400.

Early lunch taken at 12.30

It's obvious that Burgess is a far better (championship) batter than Mousley or Bethell, he should be coming in at 6.