Vaughan takes six wickets against title rivals Surrey

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Vitality County Championship Division One, Taunton (day three)

Somerset 317: Banton 132; Hasan 4-97

Surrey 321: T Curran 86, Patel 70; Vaughan 6-102, Leach 4-105

Surrey (5 pts) lead Somerset (5 pts) by 4 runs

Match scorecard

Teenager Archie Vaughan took 6-102 arsenic Somerset bowled retired title rivals Surrey connected time 3 of their County Championship lucifer astatine Taunton.

The 18-year-old added nan wickets of England wicketkeeper Ben Foakes, Jordan Clark and Cameron Steel to nan 3 he collected connected nan 2nd time arsenic second-placed Somerset restricted Surrey to a lead of 4 runs.

Vaughan is nan boy of erstwhile England skipper Michael and playing successful only his 2nd first-class match.

He appeared for England's under-19 broadside earlier successful nan summertime and successful six games for his region successful nan One-Day Cup.

Primarily a batter, Vaughan scored 44 arsenic opener successful Somerset's first innings.

He bowled successful tandem pinch chap spinner Jack Leach, a personnel of nan England squad for nan circuit to Pakistan, arsenic nan brace sewage done much than 85 overs.

Foakes, who mislaid his England Test spot to Surrey team-mate Jamie Smith, was caught astatine short limb for 37.

Vaughan past had Clark taken astatine mid-wicket by Tom Abell and Steel caught down successful nan abstraction of 3 deliveries.

Left-armer Leach did declare nan captious wickets of Rishi Patel (70) and Shakib Al Hasan (12) earlier Tom Curran counter-attacked reaching 50 disconnected 33 balls.

Leach ended nan innings connected nan changeable of luncheon erstwhile Curran was caught astatine long-on for 86 disconnected 75 balls, including 8 sixes, Leach finishing pinch 4-105.

Surrey began nan lucifer 24 points up of Somerset, pinch conscionable 2 rounds of games near aft this one, arsenic they look to make it 3 County Championship titles successful a row.

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