Craig Overton’s five-star Lord’s present secures rout of Middlesex
Somerset 404 (Bartlett 121, Abell 77) beat Middlesex 175 (Simpson 57*, Henry 5-45) and 216 (Stoneman 60, Overton 5-46) by an innings and 13 runs
Craig Overton recorded his greatest figures this summer season to propel Somerset to their first LV= Insurance County Championship win of the marketing campaign as they crushed Middlesex by an innings and 13 runs at Lord’s.
Overton completed with 5 for 46, supported by fellow seamer Peter Siddle’s effort of three for 57, to dismiss the house aspect for 216 second time round, with greater than 4 classes to spare.
Mark Stoneman, who occupied the crease for nearly three hours in compiling 60, was the one man to register a half-century in a Middlesex aspect who’ve managed to put up in extra of 250 solely as soon as this season.
Somerset’s victory was solely their second red-ball success away from Taunton in additional than two years, the opposite coming towards neighbours Gloucestershire at Bristol final summer season.
Stoneman and Stephen Eskinazi, who resumed on a gentle 81 for one, floor it out for the majority of an attritional first hour, with nearly 5 overs from Matt Henry and Overton yielding only a single leg-bye.
Although Stoneman tucked Overton away for a single quickly afterwards to convey up his second half-century of the summer season, Middlesex’s stable base was swiftly demolished by a fiery spell from Siddle on the Pavilion End.
The seamer’s first supply was carved for 4 by Eskinazi, however his second jagged again to clip the Middlesex vice-captain’s off bail and his departure for 28 signalled a well-known middle-order collapse.
Stoneman – bowled by an unplayable Henry supply first time round – was unfortunate to fall sufferer to a different ball of comparable high quality from Siddle, which seamed and careered into his off stump.
Somerset collected three extra wickets within the area of 21 balls earlier than lunch, with Overton accounting for Max Holden and John Simpson to sandwich the primary supply of Jack Leach’s spell that pinned Robbie White leg earlier than.
Luke Hollman and Ryan Higgins displayed some preventing spirit after the interval, with the left-hander driving Henry twice off the again foot to the brief boundary as he contributed 28 to their seventh-wicket partnership of 44.
Although Hollman was caught at third slip, Toby Roland-Jones took up the baton by giving Leach the cost and in addition hammered Overton over long-on for 2 fours in a cameo of 27 from 24 balls.
But Overton had the ultimate phrase, bowling the Middlesex skipper earlier than finishing his aspect’s win as Higgins (31) hooked him into the protected fingers of Lewis Gregory at lengthy leg.