Collapse leaves Somerset still chasing their first win

CHAMPIONS Surrey recorded their first win of the season in emphatic style, beating Somerset by eight wickets at the Kia Oval.

- REPORT BY BRUCE TALBOT

Dan Worrall and Jordan Clark shared six wickets as Somerset were bowled out for 119, having conceded a first-innings deficit of 84. Surrey knocked off their target of 36 in 5.2 overs and moved up to second in the table, behind early leaders Nottinghamshire.

At one stage Somerset lost six wickets for 13 runs in eight overs and were 38-7 after Clark and Worrall proved too good with a new ball that swung nicely.

Somerset, winless after four games, were complicit in their own downfall with some soft dismissals in the post-lunch period when five wickets went down in 34 balls for just four runs. Migael Pretorius held up Surrey with 54 but it was only delaying the inevitable.

Somerset had dismissed Surrey for 367 an hour into the third day but were soon in trouble.

They lost Archie Vaughan to the sixth ball of the innings thanks to a fine catch by wicket-keeper Ben Foakes, who dived full length when Vaughan leg-glanced Worrall.