Greg Blewett can make up for a poor start to his Yorkshire career by turning on the style in the PPP Championship match against Somerset which was beginning at Taunton today.

It was on the same ground two years' ago that Blewett's South Australian team-mate Darren Lehmann played his first epic innings for Yorkshire by constructing a glittering 177 in difficult batting conditions.

Blewett has already gone on record as saying he wants to achieve even more for Yorkshire than Lehmann managed and he will be keen to show that his scores of six and 12 on his debut against Gloucestershire were very rare failures indeed.

Yorkshire are in high spirits after opening up with an 81 runs win over Gloucestershire, but another Australian, Jamie Cox, is determined that Somerset will prove much more difficult to beat.

Cox, Tasmania's vice-captain and opening batsman, has stepped straight in as captain on becoming Somerset's overseas player and Yorkshire have already had a chastening experience of the adventurous cricket his new county are committed to playing.

Former Yorkshire seamer Paul Jarvis, a new signing from Sussex, has been ruled out of the game with a hamstring injury.

The two sides met in a one-day match in Cape Town recently on their pre-season tours of South Africa and after restricting Yorkshire to 127 for eight off 45 overs Somerset slammed off the runs in a mere 17 overs.

Somerset had less luck than Yorkshire with the weather last week and in their opening championship match of the season at Edgbaston Warwickshire knocked up 356 for seven before rain washed out the remainder of the game.

After winding up last season's championship programme with five successive wins and then beating Gloucestershire last week, Yorkshire are on a six-match winning sequence which is something they have not equalled since 1960. They began their run in mid-May and went on to lift the title.

Off-spinner Richard Wilkinson put the brakes on Somerset II in the Secnd XI Championship match at Clifton Park, York, yesterday.

Coming on as seventh bowler, Wilkinson took 4-43 in 16.1 overs, including the wicket of openr Gregor Kennis, who scored 114.

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