Jamie Porter also took five wickets as Somerset slipped from 95 for five to 128 all out.
Jamie Porter and Sam Cook took five wickets apiece as Essex routed Somerset for 128 on day one of their Vitality County Championship meeting at Taunton.
But Porter took five for 37 and Cook five for 38 as Somerset slipped from 95 for five to leave Essex with a lead of 28.Rain affected the matches elsewhere but Kent’s Joey Evison made his third half-century of the season as they reached 203 for seven against Lancashire at Old Trafford. Robinson bowled five consecutive maidens either side of lunch and claimed two for 48 after the visitors won the toss and put Derbyshire in.
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