 A few days later , Somerset played their first home fixture , at the Taunton Athletic Grounds , hosting Hampshire . In contrast to many of their previous game , the weather was good , and on winning the toss , Hampshire decided to bat first . Charles Seymour batted well for the visitors , accruing 57 out of Hampshire 's 146 runs , but Fowler was again the best of the Somerset bowlers , collecting four wickets for nine runs to help restrict the Hampshire total . Ramsay top @-@ scored for Somerset in their reply , accumulating 71 runs before being bowled , while a number of other batsmen made useful scores to help Somerset to their total of 214 . Edward Western , the Somerset secretary batted in his only innings of the season for the county , coming in as the last man , but he failed to score a run . Somerset struggled to collect wickets when Hampshire batted again , and tried eight different bowlers without much success . Their fielding was described by the Bristol Mercury as being " loose " , but when the sixth wicket was taken , with 232 runs scored , the rest followed reasonably quickly , and Hampshire finished on 290 . Fowler was dismissed early in Somerset 's chase , but Newton and Sainsbury put on 118 runs together to help their towards victory . Sainsbury was dismissed for 63 , but Newton continued to bat , putting on 80 runs before being dismissed . Somerset eventually reached the required total with five wickets remaining to achieve their first win of the season . 
