17 minutes, five wickets, Somerset win

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Somerset 184 (Wood 3-24, Rushworth 3-47) and 180 (Davies 49, van der Merwe 47, Onions 4-50) beat Durham 189 (Hickey 36*, van der Merwe 4-59) and 136 (Stoneman 57, van der Merwe 4-45, Leach 4-56) by 39 runs Scorecard

Somerset closed off a remarkable victory on the third morning of their Specsavers’ County Championship game with Durham at Taunton.

Defending a target of 176 and with Durham 130 for 5 overnight, they took the visitors’ last five wickets for just six runs in 22 balls, to win by 39 runs.

It was a truly intriguing 17 minutes of play during which Somerset used the spinning Taunton wicket to devastating effect. Jack Leach, who took five first innings wickets and Roelof van der Merwe were the instigators taking three and two wickets respectively.

Nightwatchman Graham Onions fell to Leach for 0, off the …

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