As I predicted last night, Somerset's batsmen led us a merry dance at Taunton today, racking up 470-5 to lead by 241 going into the final day.
Its not entirely unexpected. Somerset have a powerful, largely international batting line up and they're used to batting on what is normally a shirt front track. As happened yesterday, a side can easily get rolled on the first day at any ground in April, but Taunton is normally a place to drink at the well thereafter.
So it proved and will hopefully do again tomorrow. Results at this stage don't matter, but good habits do. There is absolutely no reason why Derbyshire's batsmen cannot emulate their Somerset counterparts and bat well in more favourable conditions. The Somerset attack is OK, but I wouldn't say especially penetrative.
In the first innings Derbyshire had several players who got starts but didn't go on to anything substantial. Tomorrow we need to see one or two of them start those good habits and bat for a long time.
A certain Mr Chanderpaul would be in his element in such circumstances.
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