Date-stamped : 28 May97 - 06:16 Millns and Mullally win case for pace By Peter Deeley at Leicester Leics (197) bt Somerset (177) by 20 runs AS Somerset were slithering to defeat, a sound like gun-fire echoed round Grace Road. Someone laughed: "Dermot Reeve must be shooting himself." How much the coach can be blamed for his side`s failure to capitalise on a potentially winning position must remain a secret for the dressing-room confessional. His batsmen certainly struggled on a pitch where Surrey`s Alistair Brown scored an unbeaten 157 on Sunday. Yet after looking at the wicket, Reeve plumped for a third slow bowler and Somerset chose to chase the runs. Leicestershire, conversely, dropped one spinner and proceeded to win the game largely because of their pace attack, David Millns and Alan Mullally. Millns bowled unchanged with pace plus a killing yorker which ripped out Jason Kerr`s middle stump and finished with three for 36. By the time he bowed out of the attack Somerset were already almost gone at 64 for five. Then when Graham Rose suggested a Somerset revival, Millns picked up a catch off his bootlaces at midwicket. Mullally matched Millns`s aggression with three wickets, two the result of batsmen chopping on to their wickets. Leicestershire were scarcely more comfortable batting on this two-paced pitch. Graham Rose took a wicket in each of his first three overs and should have had four in four if James Whitaker had not been dropped in the slips. Ben Smith, who hit the day`s highest score, 61, gave one chance and Whitaker survived another before hitting Harvey Trump`s first delivery for six and then falling to a hot return catch to the off-spinner. Trump had only bowled four overs at a cost of 29 runs this season before yesterday but he at least justified Reeve`s choice with figures of four for 51. Somerset made a despairing effort with Andy Caddick hitting two sixes and sharing in a stand of 60 in 11 overs with Rob Turner for the ninth wicket but the challenge was too late and too little. Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) Contributed by The Management (help@cricinfo.com)