By Jon Steer
May 31 2005

Durham return to championship action to face Somerset at Stockton on Tees. Plunkett and Davies return to the team and Graham Bridge makes his first start of the season as Durham go for two spinners at the expense of Michael Lewis. Nicky Peng also misses out to make way for the extra bowler.

Somerset 1st innings		Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s
ME Trescothick (c)	c Mustard b Harmison	21	27	23	3	0
JD Francis	c Benkenstein b Harmison	35	126	93	5	0
M Burns	c Benkenstein b Davies	11	45	37	2	0
ST Jayasuriya	b Davies	2	13	6	0	0
JC Hildreth	c Breese b Collingwood	70	120	93	10	1
ID Blackwell	b Collingwood	48	57	44	10	0
AW Laraman	c Bridge b Plunkett	6	10	9	1	0
RJ Turner (wk)	c Mustard b Collingwood	11	49	43	1	0
RL Johnson	b Collingwood	8	19	12	2	0
AR Caddick	c Bridge b Collingwood	19	25	15	4	0
SRG Francis	not out	5	8	7	1	0
Extras	(b 5, lb 9, nb 2)	16
Total	(all out, 63.3 overs)	252

Fall of Wickets:
1-26 (Trescothick), 2-56 (Burns), 3-64 (Jayasuriya), 4-84 (JD Francis), 5-187 (Blackwell), 6-196 (Laraman), 7-208 (Hildreth), 8-224 (Johnson), 9-243 (Turner), 10-252 (Caddick).

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Harmison	18	2	72	2
Plunkett	19	3	53	1
Davies	12	3	49	2
Bridge	3	1	12	0
Collingwood	11.3	1	52	5

Durham 1st innings		Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s
MEK Hussey (c)	c Trescothick b Caddick	47	98	71	9	0
JJB Lewis	c Turner b Laraman	36	77	69	4	0
PD Collingwood	c Turner b Caddick	6	26	18	1	0
GJ Muchall	c SRG Francis b Johnson	12	56	37	1	0
DM Benkenstein	c Turner b Caddick	6	8	12	1	0
GR Breese	c sub b Caddick	2	3	3	0	0
P Mustard (wk)	b Caddick	0	3	1	0	0
LE Plunkett	not out	74	203	145	7	1
GD Bridge	c Turner b Caddick	6	23	21	1	0
M Davies	b Jayasuriya	62	137	112	7	0
SJ Harmison	lbw b Jayasuriya	0	7	8	0	0
Extras	(b 4, lb 8, w 1, nb 34)	47
Total	(all out, 80 overs)	298

Fall of Wickets:
1-86 (Lewis), 2-102 (Hussey), 3-105 (Collingwood), 4-113 (Benkenstein), 5-118 (Breese), 6-118 (Mustard), 7-137 (Muchall), 8-160 (Bridge), 9-284 (Davies), 10-298 (Harmison).

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Caddick	28	7	106	6
Johnson	17	3	66	1
SRG Francis	12	2	40	0
Laraman	13	2	45	1
Blackwell	7	2	27	0
Jayasuriya	3	1	2	2

Somerset 2nd innings		Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s
ME Trescothick (c)	c Breese b Harmison	20	46	38	4	0
JD Francis	c Mustard b Harmison	4	21	16	1	0
M Burns	lbw b Harmison	34	80	65	5	0
ST Jayasuriya	c Hussey b Collingwood	17	19	15	2	1
JC Hildreth	b Plunkett	21	56	41	2	0
ID Blackwell	c Plunkett b Harmison	87	142	100	13	0
AW Laraman	lbw b Davies	2	20	13	0	0
RJ Turner (wk)	b Davies	5	12	9	0	0
RL Johnson	c Mustard b Collingwood	4	6	8	0	0
AR Caddick	b Collingwood	54	115	85	9	0
SRG Francis	not out	20	36	40	2	1
Extras	(b 5, lb 9, nb 6)	20
Total	(all out, 71.1 overs)	288

Fall of Wickets:
1-9 (JD Francis), 2-36 (Trescothick), 3-71 (Jayasuriya), 4-99 (Burns), 5-125 (Hildreth), 6-148 (Laraman), 7-166 (Turner), 8-173 (Johnson), 9-251 (Blackwell), 10-288 (Caddick).

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Harmison	26	6	84	4
Plunkett	17	3	78	1
Davies	12	3	40	2
Collingwood	10.1	2	46	3
Breese	6	0	26	0

Durham 2nd innings (target: 243 runs)		Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s
MEK Hussey (c)	c Turner b Caddick	51	84	65	8	0
JJB Lewis	b Caddick	7	11	5	1	0
PD Collingwood	lbw b Caddick	8	13	9	1	0
GJ Muchall	c SRG Francis b Caddick	23	48	35	3	0
DM Benkenstein	c Turner b Caddick	51	109	103	8	0
GR Breese	not out	79	151	117	13	0
P Mustard (wk)	b Caddick	16	30	21	3	0
LE Plunkett	not out	3	16	13	0	0
Extras	(w 2, nb 4)	6
Total	(6 wickets, 61 overs)	244

Did not bat:
GD Bridge, M Davies, SJ Harmison.

Fall of Wickets:
1-17 (Lewis), 2-31 (Collingwood), 3-93 (Muchall), 4-98 (Hussey), 5-189 (Benkenstein), 6-217 (Mustard).

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Caddick	25	7	98	6
Johnson	16	2	52	0
Blackwell	12	1	56	0
Jayasuriya	3	1	13	0
Laraman	5	1	25	0