Munday puts skids under Notts

Michael Munday claimed six wickets © Getty Images

Nottingham-born Michael Munday sent his home county spinning towards a heavy defeat on the second day of the LV County Championship match at Taunton.

The 22-year-old Somerset leg-spinner took a Championship-best six wickets for 34 runs as the visitors, facing a deficit of 311 on first innings, collapsed to 147 for seven.

Earlier, centuries from Marcus Trescothick, Ian Blackwell and Peter Trego put the home side in sight of their 10th Championship win of the season.

Trescothick (112) and Blackwell (141) extended their fifth-wicket stand to 204 as Somerset moved from an overnight 194 for four to 469 all out. Trego finished unbeaten on 113.

The battle between the top two teams in Division Two has proved a one-sided affair. Somerset now have the most batting bonus points of any club in the Championship and again took the maximum, despite having been 98 for four at one stage.

That was largely due to a patient, watchful knock by Trescothick and a more belligerent one by Blackwell, who was first to the century mark, off just 91 balls, with 13 fours and two sixes.

It was the all-rounder’s first Championship hundred since the final game of the 2005 season.

Trescothick, who was past his half-century when Blackwell came in, followed his partner to three figures, having faced 188 balls and hit 15 boundaries.

The opener’s fourth Championship ton of the season was not his most spectacular, but had dug his team out of trouble.

Ian Blackwell smashed 141 for Somerset © Getty Images

Charlie Shreck (three wickets for 110 runs) broke the stand by dismissing Blackwell, who by then had faced 121 deliveries and extended his boundary count to 18 fours and three sixes.

Trescothick soon followed to make the score 310 for six, but there was no respite for the Nottinghamshire bowlers as Trego took up the attack.

His second Championship century of the summer occupied 111 balls and featured 15 fours and a six.

He cleared the ropes for a second time before running out of partners, having shared a ninth-wicket stand of 82 with Steffan Jones (37).

Nottinghamshire appeared in no mood to roll over, despite losing the services of Essex-bound opener Jason Gallian to a back problem, as Will Jefferson and Bilal Shafayat put together an opening stand of 98.

But once Munday got to work from the Old Pavilion End there was a sorry procession.

The youngster took six for 77 for Oxford University in the 2006 Varsity Match and will be hoping to better those figures on Friday.

Turning his leg-breaks considerably, Munday accounted for Jefferson (44), Shafayat (57), Mark Wagh, Stephen Fleming, Chris Read and Andre Adams as seven wickets fell for 45 runs.

Blackwell pinned Samit Patel lbw before, in failing light, Somerset skipper Justin Langer declined to claim the extra half hour.

That may have had something to do with Somerset’s plans to hold the presentation ceremony for winning the league on Friday.