CLYDESDALE BANK 40 GROUP A, Taunton:
Somerset 290-6 (36 overs) beat Surrey 227 (31.4 overs) by 64 runs (D/L)
Match scorecard

Teenager Jos Buttler hit his highest one-day knock for Somerset

Teenager Jos Buttler belted another big one-day salvo as Somerset sealed a spot in the semi-finals of the CB40.

Buttler blasted four sixes in hitting 87 off just 46 balls, backed by Craig Kieswetter (79) and Zander de Bruyn (54) as Somerset ran up 290-6.

But, in a rain-affected match reduced to 36 overs a side, Surrey fell short on 227, to all but end their hopes.

Despite 73 from Mark Ramprakash at Taunton, beaten T20 finalists Somerset won with more than four overs to spare.

Earlier, having been put in, during the 87-run third-wicket stand in 12 overs between Kieswetter and de Bruyn, the players twice left the field due to heavy rain, as a result of which the game was reduced.

But it did not slow down Somerset, especially when Buttler, 20 next week, arrived at the crease to continue his rich vein of one-day form.

With an array of explosive and innovative shots, including a huge six over long on off Jade Dernbach, Buttler raced to his 50, off just 31 balls.

He then hit successive sixes high over cover before perishing in the penultimate over after adding 123 in 13.3 overs with Jimmy Hildreth (38).

Chasing a revised target of 292 for victory off 36 overs, Surrey lost their captain Rory Hamilton-Brown, caught by Pete Trego off Alfonso Thomas' third ball of the innings. And, with the score on 23, Thomas also had a hand in the second wicket when he ran out Steven Davies in the fifth over.

Ramprakash came in to join Stewart Walters and take control of the situation, hitting the first six of the Surrey innings when he lofted Peter Trego high over the mid-wicket boundary.

Walters had moved on to 45 when he was bowled in the 16th over by Murali Kartik, who then accounted for Jason Roy in the same over, stumped by Kieswetter.

Surrey continued to look threatening until Ramprakash hoisted the first ball of the 26th over, bowled by Trego, high to deep extra cover where Buttler took the chance.

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