Yorkshire Carnegie’s search for a win continues after they were well beaten by Somerset in their NatWest Pro40 League Division One match at Taunton.

Yorkshire Carnegie’s search for a win continues after they were well beaten by Somerset in their NatWest Pro40 League Division One match at Taunton.

The White Rose county were left counting the cost of only posting 208 after they were bowled out two balls inside 40 overs. Jacques Rudolph top-scored with 95 off 85 balls for the visitors. But 62 not out off 69 balls from James Hildreth ensured the hosts recovered from 91-4 in the 16th over of their reply to win by five wickets with 19 balls to spare.

South African medium pacer Zander de Bruyn has finished with 4-20 from 6.4 overs, while left-arm seamer Charl Willoughby and leg-spinner Max Waller both took two wickets in Yorkshire’s innings.

This was another below par batting show from the visitors seen as they had reached 49-0 in the eighth over after winning the toss and electing to bat. England Lions man Andrew Gale hit 32 off 27 balls, but only Jonny Bairstow reached 20. Gale and Adam Lyth were both caught at mid-wicket by Justin Langer off Willoughby, while Gerard Brophy, Tim Bresnan and Adil Rashid were all caught in the covers off Waller and de Bruyn. Rudolph holed out to Hildreth at long-on off the bowling of de Bruyn with two balls of the innings to spare, but he only faced 85 balls.

It was the equivalent of 14.1 overs of the 39.4 bowled. To Yorkshire’s detriment, he was starved of the strike. Rudolph hit eight fours and two sixes. The two maximums were both off Waller in the 39th over.

Craig Kieswetter (37) and Marcus Trescothick, who bashed 39 off 27 balls, shared 77 for the opening stand inside eleven overs before Rich Pyrah, Deon Kruis (2-38 from 6.5 overs) and David Wainwright all took wickets to peg the hosts back in their chase.

Kruis bowled Kieswetter and trapped de Bruyn lbw in the 13th over. Peter Trego then helped to get Somerset going again with 28 off 35 balls as he shared 51 in eight overs for the fifth wicket with Hildreth. And even when Trego was caught by Rudolph off the bowling of Ajmal Shahzad, who returned the pick of the figures with 1-25 from seven overs, in the 27th it seemed too little too late for Yorkshire.

That was proved by Hildreth, who hit nine fours, and Arul Suppiah (32), who clinched victory with 19 balls to spare with their unbroken sixth wicket stand of 69.

Yorkshire Carnegie face Hampshire Hawks at Basingstoke on Tuesday.