Chris Silverwood captured a wicket for Yorkshire in a dramatic first over today after they had put Somerset in to bat on a cool and overcast morning.

Peter Bowler took two leg byes off the first ball and glanced the fifth to the boundary, but he then shouldered arms, only to see his off-bail removed.

Ryan Sidebottom and Silverwood kept it tight with a maiden apiece against Somerset's new captain Jamie Cox, from Tasmania, and Mark Trescothick, but Cox got moving by driving Sidebottom through square leg for four.

Silverwood was putting in a quick opening spell but when he pitched short Trescothick showed sharp reflexes in hitting him high over mid-wicket and there were three runs for Cox when he drove Sidebottom through extra cover.

Yorkshire went into the game with an all-seam attack which went there was no place in the side for left-arm spinner Ian Fisher.

There were two changes from the side which opened the season with a win against Gloucestershire last week, Anthony McGrath replacing the injured Richard Harden and Silverwood coming in for Darren Gough who joins the England World Cup camp at the weekend.

Two years' ago at Taunton, Darren Lehmann made a dazzling 177 in his first big innings for Yorkshire and his South Australia team-mate Greg Blewett was hoping to make a similar impact in the current match.

Blewett has got off to a poor start with Yorkshire, making only six and 12 in the championship match against Gloucestershire and four in the Premier League match against the same opponents on Sunday.

Former Yorkshire fast bowler, Paul Jarvis, who joined Somerset from Sussex in the close season, was unable to play because of a hamstring strain and Somerset were also without two leading players through injury in batsman Mark Lathwell and all-rounder Graham Rose.

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