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Rudolph leads the Yorkshire run spree
JACQUES RUDOLPH hit a superb 191 to put winless Yorkshire in control on the opening day of their LV County Championship clash with Somerset at Taunton.
The Tykes are bidding to avoid a record of 18 first-class games without a win – a run that dates back to the corresponding fixture last season.
Rudolph scored a century in that game and he struck 29 boundaries in a 291-ball stay yesterday.
Yorkshire finished at 375-7 after winning the toss, Anthony McGrath making 40, Jonathan Bairstow 39 and Adam Lyth 36.
Rudolph dominated from the start, enjoying one moment of fortune when he was bowled by an Andy Caddick yorker on 32 only to see umpire Trevor Jesty signalling a no-ball.
Apart from that, the left-handed opener looked untroubled, producing some sweetly-timed cover drives and flicks off his pads to score boundaries freely on both sides of the wicket.
Rudolph lost his opening partner with the total on 24 when Alfonso Thomas beat Joe Sayers' defensive prod and bowled him for eight.
It was 101-1 at lunch, with Rudolph having reached his half-century off 81 balls, but in the first over after the interval McGrath was caught by wicket-keeper Craig Kieswetter off Peter Trego.
David Stiff struggled with the ball against his old club, allowing Yorkshire quick runs in the afternoon session by conceding two lots of four byes and then four wides in the space of two overs.
It was 189-2 when Rudolph reached a chanceless hundred off 145 balls.
That became 222-3 when Lyth top-edged a pull shot off Zander de Bruyn and was caught at mid-wicket by James Hildreth.
Andrew Gale edged Charl Willoughby through a vacant second slip area and it seemed a case of the horse having bolted when Somerset skipper Justin Langer moved Marcus Trescothick back to that position.
But Gale, on 17, edged the next ball straight to the former England opener.
Rudolph was fifth man out on 191 when bowled by a full-length ball from Stiff
Somerset hit back in the closing overs as Thomas had Azeem Rafiq and Bairstow caught behind to end the day with creditable figures of 3-50 from 20.1 overs.
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