DISCIPLINED bowling from Notts ensured they took command against Somerset in the morning session of their table-topping County Championship clash at Trent Bridge.

The visitors won the toss and chose to bat first but, come lunchtime, they would have had cause to regret that decision as they stood on 84-6

Mick Newell's men could not have wished for a better start as Charlie Shreck claimed the prized wicket of Somerset skipper Justin Langer with the very first ball of the match, an inswinger that trapped the Australian lbw.

But opening partner Marcus Trescothick looked in good touch and began to find the boundary with ominous regularity.

Somerset had recovered to 36-1 before Darren Pattinson came back at the Radcliffe Road End, after opening from the Pavilion End, to deadly effect.

With the third ball of his second spell, he had Zander de Bruyn (8) caught behind by Chris Read with a ball that left the batsman.

That was a run of three wickets in 20 balls for the right-arm paceman, but it was Andre Adams who, crucially, ousted Trescothick for 35

After going past the former England man's edge twice in the previous over, he produced a seaming delivery that knocked back the off stump.

From 44-3, it was quickly 46-4 as James Hildreth fended at a wide one from Pattinson he need not have played and departed for a duck as the ball ended up in Read's gloves.

Somerset limped past 50 but a snorting delivery from Pattinson, that left and bounced on Wesley Durston (2), made it 51-5.

In the remaining play before lunch, Ian Blackwell and Craig Kieswetter (11 not out) fought back with a stand of 31 for the sixth wicket.

But Shreck returned to clinch a second bonus point for Notts by pinning Blackwell (24) lbw as the number six tried to force a ball that nipped back through the legside.

heck back at tea for a further report.