County Championship - day two 

Surrey 459 v Somerset 180 & 18-0

PART-TIME bowler Ryan Patel took 6-5 in less than four overs as Somerset dramatically collapsed against Surrey in Guildford.

The visitors lost their last six wickets for 11 runs and were forced to follow-on as Somerset ended the second day with a mountain to climb in order to salvage anything from the top-of-the-table clash.

Surrey resumed on 351-5 but, having endured a testing first day in the field, Somerset made an ideal start to the morning session as Josh Davey had Will Jacks well caught low at third slip by Lewis Gregory with the day's second ball.

Ollie Pope continued from where he had left off the previous evening, however, progressing to a third century of a prolific season as he and Rikki Clarke took the hosts to maximum batting points.

Tim Groenewald - four years to the day since he signed for Somerset - broke the 60-run partnership by trapping Pope lbw for 117 and went on to remove Morne Morkel (20) and Jade Dernbach (0) to finish with 4-85 from 26 overs.

Lewis Gregory wrapped up the innings by pinning Clarke (42) in front of his stumps as Surrey were all out for 459 - not the sort of total the visitors would have planned for when they chose to bowl yesterday morning.

Somerset started steadily with the bat before Rikki Clark took three wickets in 20 minutes to leave the visitors wobbling.

Matt Renshaw (39) was first to depart, edging to first slip, before George Bartlett fell lbw without scoring and James Hildreth miscued to cover as Somerset slipped to 63-3.

Eddie Byrom and Tom Abell dug in either side of tea to take Somerset into three figures, but Clarke struck again to remove Abell for 26.

It was Clarke's 67th wicket against Somerset - more than any other bowler across the country has taken this century.

Byrom, who had scored just 50 runs in five innings this season prior to this match, continued to battle and moved to his first County Championship half-century of the summer from 134 balls.

The opener fell for 52 lbw to Patel's first delivery, however, sparking an astonishing collapse which saw Somerset lose five wickets for five runs to the part-time bowler.

Lewis Gregory (4) and Josh Davey (0) edged to slip either side of Steve Davies falling lbw, with Tim Groenewald also falling for a duck as Patel claimed 5-4 in his first two overs.

Before today Patel had taken two First Class wickets at 123.50 apiece, but his golden arm reduced Somerset to 174-9, still 135 runs short of making the hosts bat again.

Last-wicket pair Dom Bess and Jack Leach were left to try and salvage a desperate situation, but the latter became the fourth batsman to depart without scoring as Patel picked up his sixth wicket to complete the collapse.

He finished with scarcely believable figures of 6-5 from 3.5 overs to leave Somerset shellshocked and, more importantly, staring at a first innings deficit of 279.

Renshaw and Byrom saw out a tricky seven over period before the close - Somerset will resume tomorrow morning on 18-0.