f18134	Somerset v Australians
	Australia in British Isles 1948
Venue	County Ground, Taunton on 28th, 30th August 1948 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Australians won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Australians won by an innings and 374 runs
Umpires	D Hendren, FS Lee
Close of play day 1	Australians (1) 560/5 (Johnson 113*, Miller 37*)

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Australians first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
SG Barnes	retired ill	42
WA Brown	run out	0
*AL Hassett	c Watts b Redman	103
RN Harvey	c Luckes b Redman	126		150	19	2
RA Hamence	st Luckes b Coope	99
CL McCool	c Buse b Redman	6
IWG Johnson	not out	113				2
KR Miller	not out	37
WA Johnston	did not bat
+RA Saggers	did not bat
DT Ring	did not bat
Extras	(7 b, 21 lb, 5 nb, 1 w)	34
Total	(5 wickets, declared, 122 overs)	560
Fall of wickets:
1-0 (Brown), 2-256 (Hassett), 3-298 (Harvey), 4-306 (McCool), 5-501 (Hamence)

Somerset bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Wellard	25	2	103	0	-	-
Tremlett	21	0	106	0	-	4
Hazell	27	3	114	0	-	-
Buse	27	5	88	0	-	1
Coope	6	0	37	1	-	-
Redman	16	3	78	3	1	-

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Somerset first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
H Gimblett	c McCool b Johnston	19
MM Walford	st Saggers b McCool	26
HE Watts	st Saggers b Johnson	10
HFT Buse	c Hamence b McCool	4
*GES Woodhouse	not out	33
M Coope	b Ring	2
MF Tremlett	b McCool	0
AW Wellard	c Ring b McCool	0
+WT Luckes	lbw b Ring	5
J Redman	c Hassett b Johnston	8
HL Hazell	b Johnston	0
Extras	(4 b, 4 lb)	8
Total	(all out, 45.5 overs)	115
Fall of wickets:
1-34 (Gimblett), 2-50 (Watts), 3-63 (Buse), 4-64 (Walford), 5-67 (Coope), 6-68 (Tremlett), 7-68 (Wellard), 8-84 (Luckes), 9-115 (Redman), 10-115 (Hazell, 45.5 ov)

Australians bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Miller	5	1	20	0	-	-
Johnston	11.5	3	34	3	-	-
Johnson	9	5	15	1	-	-
McCool	11	0	21	4	-	-
Ring	9	4	17	2	-	-

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Somerset second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
H Gimblett	lbw b Johnston	0
MM Walford	c Barnes b McCool	21
HE Watts	c Hassett b Miller	0
HFT Buse	c McCool b Johnston	21
*GES Woodhouse	b Johnston	3
M Coope	c Hamence b McCool	8
MF Tremlett	c Miller b McCool	2
AW Wellard	c Johnston b McCool	5
+WT Luckes	not out	1
J Redman	c Ring b Johnston	5
HL Hazell	lbw b Johnston	0
Extras	(4 b, 1 lb)	5
Total	(all out, 35.4 overs)	71
Fall of wickets:
1-0 (Gimblett), 2-1 (Watts), 3-35 (Buse), 4-49 (Walford), 5-57 (Coope), 6-58 (Woodhouse), 7-65 (Wellard), 8-66 (Tremlett), 9-71 (Redman), 10-71 (Hazell, 35.4 ov)

Australians bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Miller	3	1	5	1	-	-
Johnston	17.4	9	34	5	-	-
Johnson	1	0	4	0	-	-
McCool	14	4	23	4	-	-

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Notes
--> The match was scheduled for three days but completed in two.
--> AL Hassett (1) passed 10500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 37
--> RN Harvey (1) passed 2000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 93
--> RA Hamence (1) passed 4000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 40
--> IWG Johnson (1) passed his previous highest score of 88 in First-Class matches
--> IWG Johnson (1) made his first century in First-Class matches
--> J Redman achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches when he dismissed CL McCool in the Australians first innings (previous best was 2-63)
--> CL McCool reached 50 wickets in First-Class matches for the season when he dismissed MF Tremlett, his 3rd wicket in the Somerset first innings
--> WA Johnston reached 100 wickets in First-Class matches for the season when he dismissed HL Hazell, his 5th wicket in the Somerset second innings
--> SG Barnes retired ill in the Australians first innings having scored 42 (team score 69/1)

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