Somerset v Yorkshire: Rashid in to tilt the balance to Yorkshire

Somerset closed on 226-4 in reply to 405, with Marcus Trescothick and the in-form James Hildreth among the batsmen dismissed.

The home side looked to be moving into a strong position when a century partnership between Arul Suppiah (78 no) and Zander de Bruyn (47) took them to 160-2. But Rashid sent back de Bruyn and Hildreth in the final hour to tilt the balance again.

Yorkshire began the day on 296-4 and lost Anthony McGrath without adding to his overnight 73. In the third over, he was undone by a bit of extra bounce from Ben Phillips and gave a sharp chest-high catch to Peter Trego at gully.

McGrath had faced 186 balls and hit nine fours. Steven Patterson earned Yorkshire's third batting point by bringing up the 300 with an off-driven boundary off Charl Willoughby, and Jonathan Bairstow helped take the score to 322-5 after 110 overs.

Somerset's disappointment at having to settle for a single bowling point was alleviated when they claimed four wickets for the addition of only 20 runs.

It was 339-6 when Patterson, on 25, edged Alfonso Thomas to Kartik at second slip and four runs later the same bowler sent Rashid's off-stump flying.

Worse was to follow for Yorkshire on the same total as Bairstow drove Kartik to Nick Compton at short extra cover, departing for 17, having given the Indian left-arm spinner his first wicket for Somerset.

Kartik went on to mark his debut with two more victims, pinning Tino Best lbw on 15 to make it 359-9. But David Wainwright made him wait until after lunch for his third scalp, hitting five fours in a hugely valuable 39 off 41 balls.

It was 395-9 at the interval and the last-wicket stand with the stubborn Oliver Hannon-Dalby was extended to 46 at the start of the afternoon session before Wainwright was brilliantly caught left-handed by the stretching Phillips at mid-on.

Only a player of Phillips's 6ft 6in could have taken the catch. The seamer also returned commendable figures of 4-76 from 36 overs, while Kartik claimed 3-106 from 35.5.

Yorkshire's last seven wickets had fallen for 125, a disappointing effort in near-perfect batting conditions. Trescothick was soon putting the pitch in perspective by hammering four fours and a three off the first 10 deliveries he received from Best.

The former England opener looked in imperious form, scoring 22 of his team's first 23 runs before surviving a loud lbw shout from Best, who retired to the outfield after conceding 27 from four overs.

Patterson was more economical, but it was Hannon-Dalby who made the breakthrough Yorkshire desperately wanted with the total on 51 in the 13th over. Trescothick looked to play too early at a slower delivery and was plum leg-before for 39, turning to walk off even before umpire Michael Gough raised the finger.

The visitors looked to be taking a grip when Compton could make only five before getting an inside edge to a ball from Patterson that nipped back, Bairstow taking an agile catch to his left. At 60-2, Somerset were stlll 196 short of the figure needed to avoid following on.

By tea it was 87-2 and Best was unlucky to see the first ball after the break whistle off the edge of de Bruyn's bat through the slips for four.

Best had switched to the River End to good effect, working up some serious pace, despite the slower than average Taunton pitch. He and the tall Hannon-Dalby caused de Bruyn and Suppiah plenty of problems.

Both batsmen needed some luck, but Suppiah reached a watchful half-century off 134 balls, with seven fours, as the total progressed to 143-2 in the 42nd over.

By then, Yorkshire had turned to Rashid, but the leg-spinner struggled to find his length in his early overs. One of several short balls saw the 150 brought up as de Bruyn cut it savagely to the cover boundary.

Rashid soon got his revenge as the South African misread a googly and was bowled off an inside edge. When Hildreth, on 31, looped a drive to mid-off from a flighted leg-break Somerset were 204-4 and Rashid had figures of 2-42 from nine overs.

It was a big wicket. Hildreth had gone into the game with scores of 99, 84 not out, 106 and 100 not out in his previous four innings.