Enormous credit to Warwickshire

At the start of June, 1977, Joel Garner made his county championship debut for Somerset against Warwickshire at Taunton.

Opening the batting for the Bears with R.N.Abberley was K.D.Smith. He found the newcomer a handful.

Smith lbw Garner 0 and b Garner 0.

Garner's match figures: 44-14-100-8. In Somerset's second innings, I.V.A.Richards scored 118.

Despite Eddie Hemmings' fine bowling, for match figures of 70.5-26-165-11, and an attractive century by John Whitehouse, Somerset celebrated Garner's arrival with victory by 79 runs.

There were 19 leg-byes (execrables carbuncles on the face of cricket) in the match. To their enormous credit, Warwickshire's share was just one.