AFTER taking a wicket with the seventh ball of the day against Somerset, Durham had to wait 60 overs for the second.

Marcus Trescothick provided a master class in making 144 before he went for a big drive off Scott Borthwick and sliced a high catch to point.

Ruel Brathwaite, who is no Clive Lloyd in the field, ended up on his knees in clinging on to the simple chance.

Trescothick put on 249 with Nick Compton, who was on 93 when the wicket fell in what was only Borthwick’s second over.

As Ben Stokes had not come on until the 51st over, twice beating Trescothick from round the wicket, it reflected returning skipper Phil Mustard’s reluctance to turn to his younger bowlers.

He had called on Dale Benkenstein to stem the flow before lunch, when he bowled five over for two runs. But Trescothick took ten runs off his first four balls after the break, twice driving wide of mid-off for four.

He reached his hundred off 128 balls by pulling Brathwaite for four and six in the 41st over but appeared to offer a chance to slip on 108.

It came off his former team-mate Ian Blackwell and was juggled by Michael Di Venuto, who dived forward at the other end shortly afterwards as the ball fell just short of him after Brathwaite struck Compton’s gloves.

Compton was on 94 at tea out of a Somerset total of 259 for two.