YORKSHIRE'S seamers in general, and Jack Brooks in particular, enjoyed a wonderful session at Headingley, where they reduced Somerset to 85-8 after 28.4 overs on the first morning of their LV= County Championship Division One match.

Brooks took four of the wickets to fall and now has 52 Championship wickets to his credit in a season in which he has been one of his county’s unsung heroes.

Bowling with pace and accuracy, he removed Tom Abell, Tom Cooper and Jim Allenby in his first spell before returning to have Lewis Gregory lbw for 24 at a time when he and Luke Ronchi were threatening to engineer a modest recovery for the visitors.

Well before that, however, Ryan Sidebottom had taken the wickets of Marcus Trescothick and James Hildreth as Somerset collapsed to 20-5 in 12.1 overs after Andrew Gale had won the toss and unhesitatingly asked the visitors to bat in a game which began at 10.30am.

Peter Trego hit four boundaries in his 19 runs before he edged Tim Bresnan to Jonny Bairstow, and Yorkshire’s joy was completed on the stroke of lunch when Craig Overton drove Steve Patterson low but straight to Bresnan at short extra cover.

Luke Ronchi was unbeaten on 17 when the players came in. Brooks had figures of 9-1-25-4.