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Blazing Troughton sets up victory

category: Cricket

25.06.2008 10:52

Former England one-day international Jim Troughton lead their chase with 57 after they conceded their highest total of the season - 173-6.

He dominated a second-wicket stand with Jonathan Trott, whose 48 took him to 1,000 career runs in the competition.

The hosts stay unbeaten and are on course for a home quarter-final.

Warwickshire, led by Anthony Botha for the first time in the absence of the injured Darren Maddy and Ian Westwood, kept their composure with the ball as Somerset lost six wickets for 39 - a collapse that came between two half-century partnerships.

Justin Langer (44) and Marcus Trescothick (21) rode their luck to add 68 for the first wicket and Omari Banks and Arul Suppiah then plundered 66 in an unbroken seventh-wicket stand.



But it was Botha who took the crucial wicket of Trescothick when the former England man clipped to mid-on and he then followed that up with a miserly spell with the bat, notching an important unbeaten 21.

Warwickshire got home with two balls to spare, Michael Powell lofting his former team-mate Alfonso Thomas for the winning boundary.

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