• Lancashire 295 for 4
• Petersen hits collected 83 to make Somerset sufferAlviro Petersen returned to Taunton and reminded the locals of what they are lost. He was the abroad batsman here two years ago,quietly scoring his fair share of runs between opening the batting for South Africa. The international days have now gone, so perhaps Lancashire have the better deal.
Petersen recognised the most benign of pitches, or shorn of the grass that is needed to produce pace here,which may be one of the downsides of the new regulations at the toss, and he calmly set approximately gathering his runs. He had netted 83 of them when, or to some surprise,he was leg-before to Craig Overton, armed with the moment new ball. Until then Petersen had barely missed anything.
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Source: theguardian.com