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30 July 2021
Yorkshire have visited five different venues in Somerset to play in a List A match but from 2002 all of the visits have been to Taunton. Paul Dyson looks back at a game at which had an extremely close finish.
May 12, 2002, at Taunton: Yorkshire 307-4 in 45 overs (MJ Wood 105 , DS Lehmann 104); Somerset 306-8 in 45 overs (J Cox 99, ID Blackwell 79, PD Bowler 53, MJ Hoggard 3-44). Yorkshire won by one run.
This match was in the first division of the Norwich Union League. It started out life as the John Player League in which each county played each other once during the season, always on a Sunday, and started in 1969, when it was played over 40 overs per side. From 1999, however, the counties were divided into two divisions with promotion and relegation and played each other twice over 45 overs. In 2001, the year prior to this match, Somerset had finished in fourth place but Yorkshire had ended its season in sixth position thus just avoiding relegation (three count
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