Awesome Caddick leads Somerset to victory over Yorkshire

Yorkshire collapsed against the pace of Andy Caddick and Steffan Jones at Headingley today as Somerset stormed to victory by 161-runs in the CricInfo Championship match.

Caddick warmed up for the Lord's Test next week by taking five for 92 to give him ten wickets in the match and Jones gave him strong support to finish with four for 91.

Yorkshire began the final day on 96 for three, still needing 258 to achieve their 354 target, and everything depended on whether Darren Lehmann could blaze the trail like he did yesterday when he dashed to his half-century off only 38 balls.

Lehmann resumed on 53 and skipper David Byas on 26, their fourth-wicket stand already worth 66, and they put on a further 20 quite confidently before Byas got a thin edge off Caddick and was caught behind.

Yorkshire suffered another blow when Craig White played round a ball from Jones and was lbw and Somerset knew they were home and dry with the departure of Lehmann for 77 off 78 balls with 13 boundaries.

The Australian attempted to hit Caddick over square leg but only made a slight contact for wicketkeeper Rob Turner to take another catch.

Apart from some lusty blows by Gary Fellows, who made 29 before his off-stump was removed by Jones, Yorkshire had little to offer and Caddick had the satisfaction of dismissing his England colleague Darren Gough with a sharply lifting ball that he could only fend off to point.

Caddick and Jones had bowled in tandem for 95 minutes from the start and as soon as Jason Kerr took over from Jones he ended the match by getting Chris Silverwood to top edge a skier which landed in Turner's gloves, Somerset collecting 17 points from the match and Yorkshire four.

Yorkshire captain David Byas admitted that his side had been outplayed. "They played the better cricket in most sessions of the match. It is fair to say they outplayed us really," he conceded, before expressing the hope that his young side could learn from the match.

"We have to look at this as a poor performance but learn from it and if a few of the lads get a kick up the backside from it then that is the benefit," he reasoned.

"We had aspirations of actually getting the runs when we started this morning," Byas revealed. "It obviously got easier last night when Darren and I were in. But we knew we had to stay there. If we could have got through to lunch we had a chance. But all good plans come to an end some time, and that is what happened."

Meanwhile Somerset coach, Kevin Shine, was delighted with the win, and praised his opening bowlers in particular: "It has been a clinical effort this morning. Both our main pace bowlers, Caddick and Steffan Jones, bowled fantastically well."