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The teenage son of former England captain Michael Vaughan finished with a superb 11-wicket haul as Somerset beat holders Surrey on Thursday to open the race for the English County Cricket Championship.
Archie Vaughan, an 18-year-old off-spinner playing in only his second Championship match, produced a superb return of 5-38 in 32 overs as visitors Surrey, who had been set a target of 221, were bowled out for 109 with minutes remaining as Somerset won by 111 runs at Taunton.
That gave Vaughan, whose Ashes-winning captain father Michael made his cricketing reputation as a batsman with Yorkshire, a match return of 11-140 after taking 6-102 in Surrey’s 321 first innings.
He also opened the batting, scoring 44 runs in the first innings.
On a pitch renowned for helping slow bowlers, the other five wickets of the second innings fell to England left-handed spinner Jack Leach, who finished with a particularly miserly 5-37 from 37 overs.
The match looked destined for a draw with Surrey 95-3 but the defending champions lost their last seven wickets for just 14 runs in a spectacular collapse that included Bangladesh star Shakib Al Hasan falling to Vaughan for a duck.
The victory meant the south-west Somerset side, who have never won the County Championship – English cricket’s domestic first-class competition – moved eight points behind Premier League leaders Surrey, who are chasing a hat-trick of titles, with two games remaining.
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