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Bowling blossoms as Yorkshire topple table toppers Somerset

Yorkshire knocked Somerset off their perch with a superb display of sustained high quality bowling and fielding on the final day at Taunton, to emerge victorious by 75 runs.

05.05.26, 09:57 Updated 05.05.26, 09:59 4 Minute Read

Jonathan Doidge

Jonathan Doidge and Richard Latham

Yorkshire 162 & 371 beat Somerset 274 & 184 by 75 runs

Yorkshire 19pts, Somerset 4pts.

Joe Root played a starring role with the ball as Yorkshire completed a remarkable 75-run Rothesay County Championship Division One victory over Somerset at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton.

From 365-9 overnight, 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 four for 94 in a total of 371.

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