DURHAM came under fire from Craig Kieswetter this morning and were left with a first innings deficit of 142 with 71 overs left in the game.

With five overs to face before lunch there were few alarms as they reached 16 without loss in sunny conditions.

After the second and third days were washed out play began 40 minutes late with the umpires apparently concerned about a squelchy area off the bottom edge of the square.

Graham Onions quickly produced a snorter, moving sharply away off the pitch, to have Max Waller caught behind.

But Kieswetter did a fine job of protecting last man George Dockrell from the strike, at one stage taking a comfortable single after pushing the fifth ball of an over straight to Ian Blackwell at mid-on.

Callum Thorp posed little threat and Kieswetter smashed him for two fours in an over before swinging a good-length ball from Onions over the mid-wicket boundary.

When Mitch Claydon came on his second ball received the same treatment and having taken a wicket in his first over he finished with one for 70 from nine.

Kieswetter was left stranded on 96 and Somerset were all out for 267 when he went back for a second run to deep mid-wicket and Dockrell had no chance of beating Mark Stoneman’s throw to the non-striker’s end.