| LV= County Championship Division One, Edgbaston (day two) |
| Somerset 215: Wagner 72, Davey 46; Rushworth 5-47 & 90-2: Dickson 36*, Umeed 20*; Barnard 2-27 |
| Warwickshire 273: Barnard 73, Davies 44, Rhodes 42; Davey 3-62, Wagner 3-67 |
| Somerset (3 pts) lead Warwickshire (4 pts) by 32 runs |
| Match scorecard |
In-form Warwickshire all-rounder Ed Barnard maintained his late-season flurry with bat and ball to attempt to assist the Bears engineer a constructive end result towards Somerset.
The Bears go into their last recreation of this longest-ever English home season needing to take eight Somerset wickets shortly, or hope that the guests attempt to make a recreation of this in any other case meaningless match.
After totalling 273 to take a 58-run first-innings lead, thanks largely to 73 from Barnard, he then took two fast wickets earlier than Somerset closed on 90-2 with a lead of 32.
Having resumed on 112-3, the Bears misplaced three wickets within the morning session.
Dan Mousley was out within the first over with out including to his in a single day rating, edging to Josh Davey (3-62), earlier than two wickets went down in seven balls.
Alex Davies was leg earlier than wicket to Jack Brooks (2-33), then Neil Wagner struck within the subsequent over to have Michael Burgess caught behind.
Barnard then shared a 93-run stand with Danny Briggs to ease the Bears right into a first-innings lead.
However Wagner (3-67) eliminated each Briggs (38) and Craig Miles in fast succession and Barnard, realising his possibilities of a primary Bears first-class century have been receding, went for an enormous one, which turned a skier and he holed out to the secure arms of Lewis Goldsworthy.
Olive Hannon-Dalby was bowled by Lewis Gregory (2-50), to be final man out.
Having turned spherical with that first-innings deficit, Somerset misplaced two males in wiping out that benefit, each to England Lions man Barnard.
The primary of them got here simply earlier than tea when the Bears posted three mid-ons of various width and shortness, sensing Tom Lammonby’s penchant for hitting aerial pictures on the leg aspect. And he fell straight into the entice, lofting Barnard straight to the center of them, Mousley.
Barnard then carried on steaming in after tea to have Goldsworthy caught behind following the resumption.
However Sean Dickson (30*) and regalvanised former Bears and Scotland opener Andy Umeed (20*) dug in earlier than dangerous mild beginning making a large number of the Edgbaston taking part in schedule to drive an early shut.
Warwickshire all-rounder Ed Barnard:
“I do not know if perhaps the captains could have a phrase however with the positions each groups are in it may simply be fairly a sluggish day. We’ll simply go on the market and attempt to take a couple of wickets and make issues occur.
“Various tempo got here out of the pitch so it’s fairly laborious to attain at instances however they bowled rather well within the first hour to place us underneath some stress.
“It was good for me to bat a while with among the lads down the order and get some runs. Briggsy got here out and performed fantastically once more, following on from his runs at Lord’s final week.
“I’ve loved the previous couple of weeks and it does really feel somewhat bit like I do not need the season to finish. There was a little bit of settling in to the primary half of the season however I’ve grown into my function and I have been happy with how I’ve performed within the second half of the season.”
Somerset coach Jason Kerr:
“We have been unfortunate to not have them 4 or 5 down on the shut on day two after which the bowlers picked up the place they left off.
“They bowled rather well and created alternatives and it received tougher because the ball received older and softer, however I am unable to fault them with the ball.
“Then we needed to bat nicely. It was a precarious place, 50-60 behind, so we wanted to begin nicely and Lammers and Dicko did that brilliantly.
“The sport is kind of finely poised and we’re going to must bat nicely within the first hour. Maybe we’ve not had the rub of the inexperienced with among the selections on this recreation, however all groups really feel that means typically.”