da aposte e ganhe： Damien Fleming bowled Australia to a first innings lead of 81 by taking 6-59on the second day of the Vodafone Challenge Match at Taunton
Richard Latham14-Jul-2001Damien Fleming bowled Australia to a first innings lead of 81 by taking 6-59on the second day of the Vodafone Challenge Match at Taunton.The pace bowler’s best haul of the tour saw Somerset dismissed for 267 afterAustralia had declared on their overnight 348-3.Rain delayed the start of play until 1.45pm, with 31 overs lost. But Flemingsoon made up for lost time, sending back Piran Holloway, Mike Burns andPeter Bowler with clever variation of pace to leave Somerset 33-3.Aamir Sohail, one of two Pakistan Test players guesting for the county,helped launch a recovery, with 20-year-old Devonian Matthew Wood (39)helping to add 78 for the fourth wicket.Sohail went on to a half-century off 118 balls, with seven fours, survivinga dropped chance in the slips off Fleming when he had made only six.He eventually fell for 50, but useful contributions down the order from RobTurner (42), Keith Parsons (38) and Ian Blackwell (30) allowed Somerset toreach a respectable total.Fleming returned to clean up the tail, removing Turner, Blackwell and JasonKerr, only to be denied career-best figures when Ashley Noffke spilled astraightforward chance at mid-off offered by last man Jamie Grove.It was left to Colin Miller to dismiss Grove in the final over of the day,leaving Australia in control.Michael Slater did not take the field for Australia because he was resting abruised wrist, sustained while batting of Friday. But the injury was notthought to be serious enough to threaten his participation in the SecondTest Match, starting at Lord’s on Thursday.