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One-Day Cup, Quarter-Final

vs Somerset

New Road, Worcester

Somerset innings: The Pears won the toss and put Somerset in to bat on a brighter day than forecast at New Road. A tight powerplay kept the visitors beneath four an over, but there was already a sense that this might not be Worcestershire's day when Tom Banton was dropped twice at slip by Callum Ferguson, first on 4 and then on 18. The opener went on to make a century in his best List A innings to date, and though the Pears struck back with regular wickets towards the end of the innings, it wasn't enough to keep Somerset from reaching 337-8 off the fifty.

Worcs innings: And with scoreboard pressure on, the Pears buckled as they've done too many times in the tournament before. There were a couple of unlucky decisions, not least Ferguson being given his marching orders off a marginal run-out that the umpire took a suspiciously long time to make up his mind about, but ultimately Worcs were simply second-best, and only Ross Whiteley managed to salvage any pride in chipping away at a hefty margin of defeat.

Worcestershire LOSE by a hundred and forty-seven runs

The Verdict: A real damp squib of an end to senior List A cricket for Worcestershire, and a disappointment all round. Sadly, all through the group stage the weaknesses that cost us in this match were apparent, and it just took a quality side to expose them fully.

With Lord's off the table, it's back to the Championship with the first red-ball home game of the year against Durham on Tuesday.