Somerset complete double

Marcus Trescothick celebrates what is his career-best domestic one-day score for Somerset

A belligerent century from Marcus Trescothick helped Somerset secure promotion from the NatWest Pro40 Second Division with a brilliant five-wicket win at Surrey.

Trescothick hit 124 from 101 balls with 14 fours and two sixes in Somerset’s 258 for nine at the Brit Oval while Surrey fell just short despite another masterful hundred from Mark Ramprakash.

With 11 needed off the last over, bowled by Steffan Jones, Ramprakash was run out for 115 attempting a second run that would have left him with the strike.

He was furious as he walked back to the pavilion and when Neil Saker was out off the fifth ball of the over, Jade Dernbach was left needing a six off the final delivery.

Dernbach could not lay a bat on it, so Somerset celebrated their second promotion of the season after their success in Division Two of the LV County Championship.

Trescothick pulls on his way to a match-winning total of 124

Surrey’s reply was marshalled by Ramprakash and Mark Butcher, who hit 56, but they undermined their efforts with three of the first four wickets being run outs.

Scott Newman and James Benning set off at a fierce pace, reaching 50 in the eighth over before Benning was yorked by Peter Trego for 24.

Newman, with 342 runs in the competition this year before the game, was run out after attempting a second run when Trego misfielded at third man.

Once Trego had gathered the ball he fired in a return and Newman was comfortably short of his ground.

Ramprakash was involved in the run outs of Butcher and Ali Brown, ending up at the same end as his partner on both occasions.

In the first instance there was confusion over which batsman was out and Butcher seemed to decide his side would be better off with Ramprakash at the wicket and marched off, ending a partnership of 129 for the third wicket.

Earlier, Trescothick rescued Somerset after they lost Craig Kieswetter, edging Dernbach behind in the first over, and Justin Langer, drilling the same bowler to backward point, in the early stages.

Neil McKenzie helped Trescothick add 84 for the third wicket but the innings stalled slightly towards the end with Dernbach returning to dismiss Trescothick and then catch James Hildreth off Benning’s occasional medium pace.

Dernbach finished with career-best figures of 5-44 from eight overs, the best by a Surrey bowler against Somerset in the competition.