Date-stamped : 06 Jun97 - 06:17 Wickets tumble as Shine polishes off Lancashire By Charles Randall at Taunton First day of four: Lancs (88 & 40-1) trail Somerset (189) by 61 runs LANCASHIRE were bundled back to the pavilion inside 23 overs before their chicken Provencale had even reached the lunch table at Taunton. In an extraordinary morning of an eventful day, Kevin Shine took a wicket in each of his first three overs and finished with seven for 43, impressive enough for a Somerset fast bowler regarded by some as the archetypal journeyman. Lancashire, though, must rank among his admirers. Shine kept a disciplined line and length and almost matched his career best eight wickets, also against Lancashire, in his harem scarem days for Hampshire five years ago. The pitch contained surface moisture to a surprising degree, visibly drying during the afternoon, and the batsmen lived in a state of anxiety as 21 wickets fell in the day. The umpires will not be reporting the pitch adversely, a surprising view because, good fun to watch though it was, the strip was a four-dayer for teams of about 20-a-side. Lancashire`s demise was the shortest championship innings in terms of overs for two years, since Northamptonshire`s fold- up against Essex, or rather Mark Ilott, at Luton. Earlier this summer Shine was derided in print by one newspaperman for being ordinary, and he was indignant enough to accost the journalist in the press box to deliver exactly the same criticism in reply. Shine has never been ordinary. In his Hampshire days he was either brilliant or, much more often, awful; at Middlesex he was injured; on joining Somerset last year he improved markedly, opening the attack with Andrew Caddick, tightening his action and delivery, pitching the ball up more and using a little guile at last. An operation to remove a spur from his left ankle revived his career after two years of frustration at Lord`s and until recently he carried the dagger-shaped piece of bone in his cricket bag to remind himself of his "will to fight back". "I`ve always tried my hardest, and I`m bowling with a lot more control now," he said. "I haven`t been taking the wickets I think I deserve, but today my luck was in." Shine took his first wicket second ball of the day when Jason Gallian, perhaps over-confident, clipped a catch to square leg, but most of his victims failed against swing and seam, consistent movement rather than lavish. If testing seam bowling was not enough, Neil Fairbrother twice backed away from the advancing Shine to swat away an insect. The left-hander never settled and after two successive boundaries lost his middle stump to a perfect inswinger. Four years ago Lancashire were shot out for 72 at Taunton, Caddick`s nine wickets remaining in the memory, and here they were struggling again at 36 for six before Mike Watkinson hit his embarrassed team out of trouble with partial success. Peter Martin and Glen Chapple threatened to give Somerset a taste of their own medicine and, if Peter Bowler had not been dropped at slip in the first over, they might have limited the damage more than they did. Bowler lasted almost three hours for a stylish 53 and looked like taking Somerset to a crushing lead in company with Piran Holloway. Collapse meant the advantage became only 101. Martin won two lbw decisions in succession, Holloway and Richard Harden, and Chapple took four wickets in 11 balls, including Graham Rose, another first-baller. Lancashire found the bowling easier second time around, but they lost the luckless Gallian retired hurt after being hit on the thumb by Andre van Troost, and Rose clean bowled Paddy McKeown, his replacement. Dave Whatmore, Lancashire`s coach, said after the morning debacle: "The team know they could have done better. Somerset bowled extremely well and the wicket did assist them, but we weren`t up to it." Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) Domino effect leaves Lancashire floored By Charles Randall at Taunton Second day of four: Somerset (189 & 66-3) bt Lancashire (88 & 164) by 7 wkts LANCASHIRE were skittled for the second day running at Taunton yesterday, and if their demise was not surrender, it came very close to it. Corporal Jones would have muttered something about not liking it up `em - in the sense of Lancashire`s application and fight when the odds were against them. On the first day they had been torpedoed by some inspired fast-medium bowling from Kevin Shine on a moist pitch, vic- tims of the domino effect that can occur in cricket. But yesterday Lancashire were abysmal. They had no excuse be- yond having to bat with 10 men, Jason Gallian`s first-day in- jury being confirmed as a broken bone in his left hand. Never mind. Lancashire supporters can look forward to another good season at 40-over fun cricket on nice, flat pitches; they can forget about the championship, just as the players seem to have done. Gary Keedy, a non-batsman at No 11, should have made some of his team-mates blush with his courage under fire, notably from the impressive Andre van Troost. The toiling Shine failed to rediscover his rhythm, so he must have been delighted at the way Lancashire made him a gift of four wickets on a slow, seaming pitch. After rain had wiped out the morning session Lancashire, who were one wicket down overnight, soon lost Glen Chapple, the nightwatch- man, dragging on through an optimistically flashy drive and Steve Titchard, playing across the line. Enter Graham Lloyd, one of England`s Texaco Trophy heroes. He almost ran himself out first ball and then tackled van Troost with two airy prods, a flashing cut for four on the up and a `nothing` stroke that he thin-edged to the wicketkeeper. Exit Lloyd after five balls, as though he had entered the game by mistake from a shopping trip. And not at Tesco, that is for sure. Nobody had the answer to van Troost, who bowled with the pace and control that many at Taunton thought had gone for ever. The tail tried to slog their way clear during the unedifying de- cline of Lan- cashire`s innings, illuminated by a fine slip catch by Peter Bowler and a glorious running take on the third-man boundary by Mushtaq Ahmed. 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