Sam Curran five-for silences Somerset reply
Surrey 195 for 9 (Jacks 60, Jordan 36*, Green 4-33) beat Somerset 167 for 9 (Banton 53, Abell 39, S Curran 5-26) by 28 runs
Sam Curran claimed 5 wickets as Surrey gained the battle of the highest two groups within the Vitality Blast South Group by 28 runs towards Somerset at Taunton.
The guests posted 195 for 9 after shedding the toss, Will Jacks smashing 60 off 43 balls and Chris Jordan a blistering 36 not out off simply 12. Ben Green cemented his place as main wicket-taker within the competitors with 4 for 33, taking his tally to twenty, whereas Josh Davey claimed 3 for 32.
In reply, Somerset have been restricted to 167 for 9, Tom Banton top-scoring with 54 and Tom Abell making 39. Curran completed with 5 for 26 and Jordan 2 for 31.
The battle of essentially the most profitable sides within the South Group drew a packed crowd of round 7,000 to the Cooper Associates County Ground the place a straw-coloured pitch instructed they might witness a feast of runs.
After Craig Overton and Matt Henry had bowled the primary two overs for 4 runs every, Jacks launched the Surrey assault with a six over additional cowl off Overton.
Particularly sturdy by means of the off-side, Jacks then dispatched a Henry yorker by means of level for 4 and cleared the long-off ropes off Davey in main his aspect to 44 with out loss off the six-over energy play.
Laurie Evans scooped a six off Lewis Gregory and pulled a most off Green, who broke the opening stand of 71 within the ninth over when Evans was pouched at deep mid-wicket by Abell for 28.
It was the primary of 4 Abell boundary catches as Somerset backed their bowlers with some very good fielding. But they could not cease Jacks reaching an excellent fifty off 37 balls, with 4 fours and 4 sixes.
Tom Curran fell to a different Abell catch off Davey for 15 and Jacks departed when lofting a Roelof van der Merwe full toss to Henry at long-off.
Jamie Overton smacked 20 off simply 9 balls towards his previous county, together with two sweetly struck sixes, earlier than falling to the perfect of Abell’s catches, a low diving effort off Green at deep mid-wicket.
But Tom Curran and Sean Abott fell cheaply and when Surrey reached the top of the 18th over on 155 for 7 it appeared they may fall in need of a difficult complete.
Jordan had different concepts, taking 30 off the penultimate over from Henry, which additionally included a large. His sequence of scoring pictures was 2,6,6,4,6,6 in a murderous exhibition of fresh hitting.
It seemed a match-turning contribution. Somerset have been usually constructive with the bat in response, Banton scooping a six over fine-leg and upper-cutting one other over third man within the opening over, despatched down by Abbott.
Will Smeed adopted up with two fours off Sam Curran, who then stemmed the flying begin by having him caught at deep cowl. The commonplace of fielding was maintained when Gus Atkinson held a superb catch at mid-on to dismiss Tom Kohler-Cadmore in Curran’s second over.
Banton and Abell took the rating to 51 for two by the top of the ability play. Both seemed in supreme contact because the partnership flourished, Banton sweeping a six and 4 off Sunil Narine’s first over and Abell slog-sweeping sixes off successive balls within the off-spinner’s second.
The fifty stand got here off 28 balls as Somerset reached the midway stage of their innings on 99 for two. But the primary ball of the eleventh over noticed Abell nick a catch behind off Gus Atkinson.
A six and a single off Narine, who switched ends, took Banton to his second Blast fifty of the season off 33 balls. Curran returned to finish his innings, courtesy of a miscued drive to mid-off. The identical over, the 14th, noticed Sean Dickson run out in a mix-up with Gregory over a second run and Gregory pull a catch to deep mid-wicket.
Somerset have been out of the blue 120 for six. Green gave them hope with two sixes and a 4 off Narine, whose 4 overs value 55. But Jordan ended any doubt in regards to the end result by sending again Roelof van der Merwe and Green within the seventeenth over.