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Cricket Scotland began a celebration of its history by launching the Scottish Cricket Hall of Fame in Edinburgh to showcase the cricketers that have all played an integral part in the development of Scottish cricket.Twelve players were inducted into the Hall of Fame in recognition of their pioneering spirit that has helped develop the game in Scotland. From 2012 two further inductees will be announced each year.Among those included at the launch are Gregor MacGregor, who played eight Tests for England between 1890 and 1893, Mike Denness – England captain for 19 Tests and former ICC match referee – and former Scotland captain Gavin Hamilton.”I’m very proud and privileged to be among the first inductees into the Scottish Cricket Hall of fame,” said Hamilton. “It really makes all the hard work over the last 20 years worthwhile.”Hall of Fame
Leslie Balfour, Gregor MacGregor, John Kerr, James Aitchison, Jimmy Allan, Mike Denness, George Goddard, Brian Hardie, Iain Philip, Dougie Brown, Gavin Hamilton, Craig Wright

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An extraordinary spell from Doug Bracewell and horrific batting disintegration by Australia handed New Zealand a dramatic and momentous seven-run Test victory in Hobart, their first on these shores since 1985.The hosts’ chase of 241 had been guided expertly by David Warner, but Bracewell’s removal of Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke and Michael Hussey, all on 159, left Australia a nervous 5 for 173 at lunch, and on resumption the remaining five went down for a mere 60. In all it was a collapse of 8 for 74, Warner left marooned on 123 when the last man, Nathan Lyon, was bowled by Bracewell.Bracewell’s display, characterised by swing, bounce and sharp variation, confirmed his pre-series billing by the New Zealand captain Ross Taylor as a cricketer of enormous potential. It also branded Australia as a team of profound vulnerability with the bat, a problem made doubly vexing by the fact the top seven is populated as much by experience as callow youth. Clarke will take precious little consolation from the retention of the Trans-Tasman Trophy.Phillip Hughes had been dismissed without addition to his overnight score, yet again caught by Martin Guptill off the bowling of Chris Martin, and Usman Khawaja was again out for a useful but not sufficiently consequential tally. Ponting and Warner took Australia to within 82 with eight wickets in hand, before tumult ensued.Hughes and Warner resumed in morning sunshine, aware that morning session had been the most difficult in which to bat during this match. Martin shared this knowledge, and he swiftly made use of it by finding another delivery that seamed across Hughes to be snapped up by Guptill in the slips. Hughes had been out in that manner in each of his four innings for the series, and he walked off knowing he could not expect to be retained for the Boxing Day Test.By contrast Warner did not let the bowlers settle, punching through the offside with rare power, though it was an edge over the slips cordon off the bowling of Bracewell that delivered his first Test half-century.Khawaja provided sound support for a time, but Warner twinged his back when diving for a run-out and was visibly inconvenienced. Perhaps trying to take more responsibility for scoring, Khawaja drove loosely at a wide delivery from Trent Boult and was held by Ross Taylor, who did brilliantly to hold his poise as Guptill dived across him from second slip.Ponting emerged for what may well be his final Test innings in Hobart, and played himself in with a handful of crisp shots. Warner was regaining some freedom of movement at the other end, and lunch emerged into view with the hosts in apparent control.However Bracewell had been moving the ball consistently, and varying his pace with intelligence. Ponting was undone by a delivery that stopped on him as he tried a signature back-foot drive, and lobbed gently off the toe of his bat to cover. The crowd offered a generous ovation, but it was not acknowledged, Ponting lost in his own thoughts and frustrations at letting New Zealand back into the contest.Bracewell had troubled Clarke all series, shaping the ball both ways from his muscular body action, and he now prised out Australia’s captain with an away swinger that Taylor claimed at the second attempt. His next ball also swung, beating Hussey’s bat to strike the pad in front of middle and leg. A not out verdict was referred by Taylor, and within moments Bracewell was on a hat-trick.Warner top-edged a hook off Martin then drove with conviction to move well into the 90s, and after Brad Haddin survived Bracewell’s hat-trick ball the teams walked off for lunch. When they returned, Warner was swiftly into three figures, laughing and punching the air in recognition of a richly-deserved century.Tim Southee found some delectable outswing in the afternoon, and Haddin edged perilously wide of the slips. Taylor reinforced the cordon and next ball Haddin duly chased another, snicking straight to New Zealand’s captain. Peter Siddle did likewise, and for the first time all day the visitors were favoured to win.Bracewell was bending the ball with similar venom, and two balls after James Pattinson survived a review for lbw when he did not offer a shot, a delivery angled across was snapped up by Guptill in the cordon.Mitchell Starc was too late and too crooked to keep out his second ball, another swerving demon from Bracewell, and all of a sudden Warner had only Lyon for company. A few solid blows brought the target within 25 runs, but then Southee and New Zealand had a moment in which they felt victory was theirs.A full delivery swung down the line and struck Lyon in front, quickly drawing a raised finger from the umpire Nigel Llong. Lyon’s last-ditch referral looked exactly that, but the ball tracker improbably revealed the ball had pitched a millimetre outside leg stump. To widespread disbelief, the chase resumed.Next over and the ‘keeper Reece Young encouraged the referral of another lbw appeal against Lyon, only to find that Bracewell’s in-dipper was arcing down the legside, and the No. 11 then unveiled a princely flick through straight midwicket to demonstrate his composure. Warner took a single, Bracewell bustled in again, and found one more tearing delivery to crash through Lyon’s defence.As New Zealand celebrated, Lyon sank to the ground, disbelieving that the match had been lost. Bad as he felt, it was the batsmen other than Warner who had greatest cause to feel poorly.

Lahore Ravi completed a whopping innings and 185-run victory over Quetta within three days at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Mohammad Saad went on to add over a 100 runs to his overnight score of 84 and steered the hosts to 487 for 9. He fell for 188, but by then Lahore Ravi had secured a 315-run first-innings lead. Emmad Ali and Asif Ashfaq then went on to destroy the Quetta top order, while Waqas Aslam polished off the tail. If it hadn’t been for an unbeaten fifty from captain Taimur Khan, the margin of defeat would have been much worse for Quetta.On the third day at the Niaz Stadium in Sind, Karachi Whites‘ bowlers set their team up for an easy, big win against Hyderabad. Hyderabad had resumed on 161 for 5 in reply to Karachi Whites’ 371, and promptly collapsed in the morning session. They folded for 197 courtesy incisive spells from Tabish Khan and Ali Mudassar, Karachi Whites’ new-ball pair. Akbar-ur-Rehman enforced the follow and another collapse ensued. In their second innings Hyderabad went from 43 for 0 to 111 for 8, before a half-century stand between Mir Ali and Zahid Mahmood prevented an innings’ defeat. Spinner Faraz Khan was the pick of the bowlers this time round, claiming 4 for 68. Ali fell for 86 just prior to stumps, as Hyderabad finished 36 ahead with one wicket in hand.United Bank Limited (UBL) set Lahore Shalimar an imposing target of 385, and then prised out two wickets late on day three to edge ahead at the Lahore City Cricket Association Ground. UBL’s first-innings’ lead of 112 was built on by their opener Mohammad Sami, who made 110 and they declared at 272 for 5. Lahore Shalimar’s openers looked settled in – they had put on 62 – before a double-strike from left-arm spinner Kashif Bhatti left them wobbling at stumps.Akbar Badshah and Jamaluddin put on a century partnership to steer Peshawar into a position of dominance against Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) at the Arbab Niaz Stadium in Peshawar. The pair’s stand was the backbone of the host’s second innings and, though they folded for 196, gave them a 300-run lead. Bilawal Bhatti was the pick with the ball, completing a five-for. SNGPL were then in big trouble at 31 for 3, before a steadying, unbroken 61-run partnership between Khurram Shehzad and Ali Waqas took them to 92 for 3 at stumps, setting up an interesting final day.Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) took control of their game against Multan on the second day at the Multan Cricket Stadium. Their new-ball pair of Yasir Arafat and Rahat Ali combined to restrict the hosts to 129 in their first innings, in reply to 304. Multan was made to follow on and lost three wickets cheaply again. Moinuddin, though, scored Multan’s first half-century of the match and went to stumps unbeaten. He will be a key if they are to wipe out the 98-run deficit on day three and make KRL bat again in this game.

Pat Howard has conceded he will have to earn the respect of Australia’s players and coaches after being brought in from outside the game to become Cricket Australia’s new head of high performance. A former rugby international, Howard, 37, has been handed the powerful job of general manager of team performance, a newly-created role recommended by the Argus review and a position in which Australia’s captain, head coach and full-time selector will report to him.A Wallabies player who represented Australia in 20 Tests during the 1990s, Howard beat several candidates with strong cricket backgrounds to win the new position, in which he will play a key part in appointing Tim Nielsen’s replacement as head coach as well as the new selection panel. Howard said while he would join Cricket Australia with a clean slate and fresh ideas, willing to “ask those dumb questions” about why things are the way they are, he could not take his new authority for granted.”Leadership and management come in all forms,” Howard said after the appointment on Thursday. “You’ve got to make sure that you understand the group and the group mentality. I’ve got to get my head around the culture of cricket and the personalities involved. That’s a process that comes in over time. Regardless of what your title is, you’ve got to earn respect and that takes time. I’m not going to be granted anything – you’ve got to earn it.”Howard was unveiled at Cricket Australia’s Melbourne headquarters, where he showed the kind of confidence and poise expected of a man who has played sport at the highest level and forged a successful career off the field. In explaining why Howard would be the key figure around which Australia’s rebuilding process would begin, the Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland pointed to his strong background in various fields, including his time as general manager of the high performance unit for the Australian Rugby Union.”His credentials are very, very strong, albeit in a sporting sense, in rugby,” Sutherland said. “But it’s important to note that he has played at the highest level, he has coached, he has been a national selector – he knows and understands high performance. He has had a general manager role in high performance as well. On top of that he brings a whole lot of other credentials that we find very attractive.”He’s a pharmacist by trade, originally, and that lends itself to something that’s very important in high-performance sport, the sports medical aspect of performance. On top of that he’s more recently had a career in industry and that broadened his offering and made him a very attractive candidate.”Howard will take up his new role in mid-November, allowing him time to wrap up his current position as chief operations officer of Cromwell Property Group, and he hopes to squeeze in a trip to South Africa to meet Australia’s squad during the ongoing series, which begins with a Twenty20 on Thursday. He will be based at the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane and will work closely with state cricket managers around the country in an effort to co-ordinate national player development.The appointment of Howard means Australia can now begin to fine-tune their search for a new head coach, an expanded role that involves directing the coaching strategy for elite cricket throughout the country, as well as the full-time national selector and two part-time independent selectors. Those positions, like Howard’s, were recommended by the Argus review, which he believes was “a watershed moment” in Australian cricket.”The Argus review is a fantastic platform to build from, being able to dissect that at every level, engage at every level,” Howard said. “The fact that Australia is not on top means there is some real upside, I think. A mandate for change and growth is not always possible when you’re No.1. The Argus review was a really great watershed moment and I think it presents a really good opportunity.”One of the things about rugby and cricket that is similar is that the fortunes of the game rely heavily on the performance of the national team. Other sports can rely on domestic competition and domestic wins and losses. Cricket and rugby can’t. The Wallabies need to win; the Australian Test team needs to win. As an Australian public we don’t accept anything less, so it’s a great challenge.”After a decade of dominance leading up to the retirements of champion players such as Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, Australia slipped to fifth on the ICC Test rankings, although they have moved back up to fourth following last month’s series victory over Sri Lanka. While Howard’s brief is to oversee the resurgence of Australian cricket, other areas such as competition management, umpiring, programming, anti-corruption, security, team logistics and industrial relations will remain the realm of Michael Brown, Cricket Australia’s general manager of operations.

England “need to learn to win in one-day cricket,” after their elevation to the No. 1 Test ranking, as they have what it takes to emulate the multi-format dominance of West Indies in the 1970-80s and Australia in the 2000s, says Nasser Hussain.England’s up-and-down form in the ODI game, Hussain said in an exclusive interview to ESPNcricinfo, had to do with how they “prioritised Test cricket, a little bit like India have of late, prioritised one-day cricket. They need a good World Cup just so that the kids in England look at it and say, alright we can play one-day cricket.”I think it’s going to be very important, the next World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, for England. It is very difficult [to build dominance] but what this England side have now – what that Australian side had – is strength and depth.”Hussain expected the ODI series between India and England, which began at Durham on Saturday, to be closely contested. “One-day cricket has been a lot more about individual brilliance, a lot more about raw talent. Historically England have produced good, solid technical batsmen but you wouldn’t say they have produced massive hitters of the ball, or people who can be innovative with the bat, or have weird actions with the ball, spin it both ways or reverse swing it. We’ve been a little bit too English, if you like, a little bit too orthodox. I think what wins you one-day games is a little bit of unorthodox and some individual brilliance. We’ve always lacked that.”England’s ODI side was remodelled after the 2011 World Cup and is now led by Alastair Cook who began his full-time role with a 3-2 series win against Sri Lanka. Hussain said flair players were now coming through more frequently. “We’re starting to produce those cricketers, albeit with a bit of foreign imports, a few South African imports, but it’s still an English side. Guys like Eoin Morgan, an Irish import or whatever you want to call it. Like [Jade] Dernbach, he’s got unusual variations with the slower ball and he’s unorthodox – so its starting to go a down that road now.”Because of the strength and depth in the squad, and the manner in which they are handled, Hussain believes England can have sustained success across formats. “They are all of the right age and are well looked after. The challenge is not to do what they did in 2005, when they got giddy and thought they’ve climbed their Everest and that’s it, we’ve done it. I don’t think this lot will do it.”England’s next target, Hussain said, was coming up in the subcontinent winter, when they will play ODIs in India, a Test series against Pakistan in the UAE and a Test series in Sri Lanka. “Going there and winning is the next thing,” said Hussain, who captained England to victory in both Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 2000-01. “England have got a lot of tours coming up in the subcontinent in both forms of the game. In Test cricket, it’s a completely different brand of cricket. Look at Jimmy [Anderson] bowling in the World Cup, and Jimmy bowling here now. Their biggest challenge is going to be finding that second spinner, whether it’s going to be Monty [Panesar] or Samit Patel or someone like that, [and finding] reverse swing bowlers.”Away from the subcontinent, Hussain said South Africa were England’s biggest challenger for the No.1 spot in Tests. “South Africa are a threat, they rely heavily on [Morne] Morkel and [Dale] Steyn. Imran Tahir is a very useful addition to them. They are a good side but I still fancy England. If you had all of the Pakistan team available and all fit, and none of the politics, and none of the going around in circles with captains and all that, with their bowling attack, they would be a threat to world cricket but unfortunately that’s not the case.”The full interview with Nasser Hussain will appear on ESPNcricinfo next week.

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Martin Guptill and Wes Durston dented Gloucestershire’s promotion hopes with adouble century stand to put Derbyshire on top in the County Championshipmatch at Derby.The third wicket pair both scored centuries to dominate a rain-hit opening dayafter Gloucestershire had reduced the home side to 29 for 2. Guptill ended a lean run with his first Championship century while Durston celebrated a new two-year contract by scoring a career-best unbeaten 151.The visitors paid a high price for a dropped catch when Durston was on 39 asthe pair set a new Derbyshire third-wicket record against Gloucestershire of 266in 53 overs.Guptill eventually fell for 143 when he sliced a drive to point and althoughGreg Smith went without scoring in the same over, Derbyshire closed on 329 forfour.Alex Gidman’s decision to bowl first on a green tinged pitch had looked a goodone when Wayne Madsen and Chesney Hughes were dismissed cheaply on a cool,overcast morning.Madsen had come into the match on a run of low scores but he battled throughthe first 12 overs only to miss a straight one from Will Gidman and was legbefore for 10.Hughes had scored his maiden first-class century against Gloucestershire atDerby last season but this time he edged a lifting ball from David Payne tothird slip where Ian Cockbain made no mistake.Guptill had scored only 47 in his previous six championship innings and wasaveraging only 15 but the New Zealander showed his touch was returning with someconfident drives off the front and back foot.Durston was quickly into his stride and cut, drove and pulled Jon Lewis forfour boundaries in an over as Derbyshire recovered to reach 103 for two atlunch.Gloucestershire should have broken through in the sixth over of the afternoonsession when Durston edged a big drive at Kane Williamson’s off-spin but HamishMarshall at slip spilled the chance.He had plenty of time to reflect on that miss as the rain set in withDerbyshire on 155 for two and held up play for nearly two hours but the breakdid not disrupt the batsmen’s concentration .They sailed along at five an over, helped by some sloppy ground fielding, andpassed the county’s previous best third wicket stand against Gloucestershire of265 set by Simon Katich and Travis Birt at Bristol in 2007 before Guptillmiscued a drive at Will Gidman.He had scored 100 of his runs in boundaries and had more than doubled hisprevious championship tally of 139 in 10 innings but Durston went on to pass hisprevious highest score of 146 not out for Somerset against Derbyshire in 2005before bad light ended play one over early.

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MS Dhoni has not enjoyed the finest series to date, but with his side facing a complete meltdown at 111 for 7, he reverted at last to the one-day mentality that has fuelled his best performances. With Praveen Kumar providing typically spirited company, he opened his shoulders and turned on the style, cracking Stuart Broad for two fours in three balls before pummelling James Anderson over long-on in a re-enactment of his World Cup-sealing six in Mumbai. One by one, England’s fielders retreated to the boundary’s edge in an attempt to cool his ardour, and by the time he’d passed fifty, there was just a solitary slip keeping Matt Prior company. All the more remarkable, then, that on 77, Dhoni climbed into a drive, but picked out that very man with a thick edge off Broad.Catch of the day
Fielding under the helmet is a perilous occupation, as Alastair Cook demonstrated while claiming the catch that ended India’s innings. In fact, he didn’t so much catch the ball as wear it, as Ishant Sharma went up onto his toes to drill a back-foot drive through the covers. The shot was struck well, but Cook’s reflexes at silly point were alive to the moment, as he half-dived, half-toppled, and rolled with the momentum to emerge with the ball embedded somewhere near his armpit.Ball of the day
Rahul Dravid has not seemed so integral to India’s fortunes since his heyday in the early 2000s, and today – as if to prove the point – he was back in the middle just seven deliveries into the Indian innings, and presented once again with challenging overcast conditions. For 67 deliveries it was business as usual, as Dravid presented the straightest bat in the game, first to subdue England’s early momentum, and then to hold his team together after the flimsy dismissals of Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar. But then, on the stroke of lunch, he received an absolute beauty from Tim Bresnan – a wicked zinger that straightened off a good length and splattered his off stump. Barnes Wallis himself couldn’t have devised a better bouncing bomb, and India’s dam had been comprehensively busted.Breakthrough of the day
He was expected to create an impact. He was expected to destroy the best bowling attack in the world. He was expected to lift India out of the dire straits they had forced themselves into in the last few weeks. In the end Virender Sehwag betrayed those expectations as, playing his first international match since the World Cup final, he barely managed to lift his bat at his first ball, a seaming lifter from Stuart Broad, that kissed the Indian opener’s glove en route to the hands of Matt Prior. Sehwag would have known immediately he had edged the ball, but he stood his ground. Andrew Strauss asked for a review, which exposed Sehwag’s guilty secret. This was the fifth time in his career Sehwag had been out first ball, but the first occasion since 2006.Error of the day
Ban VVS Laxman from playing the pull. To get out three times in three Tests so far in the series playing the pull against pretty similar deliveries should even frustrate this most phlegmatic of cricketers. At Lord’s, twice he played into the hands of deep square-leg. Today, he went to pull early at a Tim Bresnan delivery that slowed down off the pitch and the top edge flew straight to long leg.Start of the day
Compared to the riches that his top-order colleagues have been producing in recent months, Andrew Strauss has been in a distinctly fallow run of form. He endured a grim start to the international season, with 27 runs in four innings against Sri Lanka, and though he improved on that in the first two Tests against India, his twin top scores of 32 spoke of a peculiar failure to build on his starts. Today, he set about righting a few wrongs with his first half-century since Sydney in January, and his first on home soil since last year’s Edgbaston Test against Pakistan. He’ll want to do better than that, however. His Ashes hundred at Brisbane last November remains his only three-figure score in Tests since 2009.

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Hampshire’s Dimitri Mascarenhas took three wickets as Kent slumped to the fourth-lowest total in domestic Twenty20 history en route to a 69-run defeat in this Friends Life t20 encounter at the Rose Bowl.The hosts could only put together a modest 141 for 6 from their 20 overs after Dominic Cork had won the toss, but it proved more than enough as Kent capitulated, losing their top three batsmen within the first 14 balls.Mascarenhas put behind him more than a year of injury problems to undermine the Kent batting, dismissing Joe Denly with the third delivery of the innings and then snaring his fellow opener Rob Key – both for ducks – and later Wahab Riaz (11) as Kent fell away, never looking likely to get anywhere near their victory target.Mascarenhas finished with figures of 3 for 29 from his four-over allotment as Hampshire raced back to the top of the South Group with their eighth win in 11 fixtures. Kent were all out for 72, although batsman Martin van Jaarsveld was unable to bat because of a finger injury sustained while fielding.Hampshire struggled on a pitch offering plenty of turn and their top scorer was South African batsman Neil McKenzie who hit five boundaries in his 46-ball 48, sharing in a stand of 50 for the fifth wicket with Sean Ervine.Champions Hampshire were never at ease against the occasional spin of van Jaarsveld, who took 3 for 20 from four overs having previously only ever taken seven wickets in the competition.But if Kent thought seven an over was a reasonable proposition, they were in for a shock as they lost Denly, Azhar Mahmood and Key with just two on the board. With Riaz quickly dismissed only Darren Stevens offered any resistance, striking six and two fours in his 20 before he was bowled by Danny Briggs.Sam Northeast was run out for 3 and Kent were beyond redemption at 40 for 6 at the start of the eighth over. Shahid Afridi, who was out first ball when Hampshire batted, accounted for Adam Ball in the 11th over and the innings was quickly wrapped up by Imran Tahir who sent back Geraint Jones and Charl Langeveldt.Hampshire’s victory was their sixth in succession at the Rose Bowl and for Kent there was at least a small consolation of having avoided the lowest total in the English version of the competition. That remains the 67 Sussex made, coincidentally against Hampshire, in 2004.

ScorecardSussex maintained their 100% record as they collected their third Friends Life t20 victory of the campaign by beating Essex by 17 runs at Chelmsford. After posting a total of 168 for 6, the visitors restricted their opponents to 151 for 7 despite some indifferent fielding.Luke Wright underpinned Sussex’s innings, batting throughout for an unbeaten 81 from 51 deliveries while helping himself to three sixes and seven fours. His major support came from Chris Nash, who scored 44 from 36 balls during an opening partnership of 106 in 12 overs.But once they were separated by left-arm spinner Tim Phillips, Sussex lost their way. Phillips was to claim the next three wickets, including that of Murray Goodwin who was bowled without scoring while attempting to sweep, while Scott Styris picked up two more soon afterwards.It meant that Sussex had lost six wickets in the space of half a dozen overs for just 36 runs before Wright, who saw very little of the strike in the last few overs, and Wayne Parnell carried them to their final total.Phillips picked up his 4 for 27 while Styris returned figures of 2 for 28 – but they were soon watching their colleagues struggle in reply.Mark Pettini, Ravi Bopara and Graham Napier were all back in the Pavilion with only 36 on the board, the latter being dropped twice before falling victim to Chris Liddle for only 7.Owais Shah and Ryan ten Doeschate did their best to try and retrieve the situation by putting together a stand of 51 in six overs but once they were parted Essex never looked like mounting a serious challenge, despite a brief flurry from Styris who struck two sixes while making 20.Liddle collected 3 for 25 from his allocation of four overs while Rana Naved-ul-Hasan also bowled superbly to return 2 for 23 as Essex were left reflecting on their second defeat in three outings.

ScorecardMarcus Trescothick scored his second half-century of the match to put Somerset firmly in control against Sussex at Hove – while there was an injury scare for England wicketkeeper Matt Prior. The visitors established a lead of 150 runs with nine second-innings wickets in hand in the County Championship Division One tussle.Somerset’s increasingly commanding position came despite the efforts of James Anyon, who hit his first first-class fifty after Sussex had lost six wickets for 24 runs in six overs after lunch, including that of Prior who was struck on the elbow.Sussex, replying to Somerset’s first innings of 213, made a poor start with Chris Nash edging the fourth ball from Charl Willoughby to Trescothick at second slip and Luke Wells going the same way in Willoughby’s third over.Ed Joyce and Murray Goodwin got Sussex back on an even keel by taking them to 71 for 2 but then they fell apart. Joyce was caught behind for 29 off the second ball after lunch from Steve Kirby, and Goodwin, driving, edged the last delivery of the over to Trescothick at second slip and was gone for 26.Pete Trego struck twice in the next over, Prior chipping his third ball tamely to Alex Barrow at midwicket and Andy Hodd snicking his second ball to Arul Suppiah at first slip. Mike Yardy was the next to go, giving Trescothick his fourth catch at second slip off Trego, and although Rana Naved-ul-Hasan flicked Trego for six and took two fours off Kirby, he soon fell lbw to Kirby for 20.Sussex had collapsed to 95 for 8 before Monty Panesar and Anyon began to show that the conditions were not so bad. Panesar was as dogged as he had been for England against Australia at Cardiff in 2009 while Anyon, boasting a batting average of four this season, played the innings of his life.They had put on 50 in 20 overs when Anyon drove Kirby straight to Trego at mid-off and Panesar, slow to respond to the call for a single, was run out for 14 by a direct hit. Undeterred, number 10 Anyon went on to play like a proper batsman, hitting nine fours, three of them in the same over from Lewis Gregory to take him to his fifty off 78 balls. He faced only three more before slicing Trego, who finished with 4 for 24, to cover – to be out for 51.Prior, who had been struck on the elbow by the first ball he received from Kirby, did not keep wicket when Somerset went in again 36 runs ahead.However Mark Robinson, the Sussex coach, said it was purely a precautionary measure and he was only badly bruised. That indicated there should be no doubt about Prior’s availability for England ahead of next week’s first Test against Sri Lanka.Sussex had more to worry about as Trescothick and Arul Suppiah put on 102 before Suppiah was stumped off Panesar for 38. Trescothick went on to finish unbeaten on 64, including nine fours and a six, as Somerset closed on 114 for 1.