West In­dies bats­man Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul top­scored for Lan­cashire again on the first day of their Coun­ty Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion One match against Som­er­set at Taunton yes­ter­day. The Guyanese left han­der, whose 51 helped his side to a three-wick­et win over Hamp­shire last week, made 56 out of Lan­cashire's first in­nings to­tal of 259 all out. Chan­der­paul came to the crease with the score on 32 for two and de­part­ed at 153 for five when he top-edged a re­verse sweep off Mu­rali Kar­tik to Mar­cus Trescoth­ick at slip.

He hit eight fours off 78 balls in 119 min­utes. The next high­est score was 34 by tailen­der Gary Keedy. Chan­der­paul car­ried his sea­son tal­ly to 678 runs in sev­en match­es at 61.63, the fourth high­est av­er­age in Di­vi­sion One be­hind Not­ting­hamshire's Hashim Am­la (75.40) and David Hussey (66.50) and Som­er­set's James Hil­dreth (65.45).

In re­ply, Som­er­set reached 54 for one. In oth­er match­es, for­mer West In­dies fast bowlers Corey Col­ly­more and Pe­dro Collins had a qui­et time for Sus­sex and Mid­dle­sex, re­spec­tive­ly.

Col­ly­more took one for 39 in 12 overs as Northamp­ton­shire crum­bled to 125 all out. His sole wick­et was open­er Mal Loye in his third over of the morn­ing. Sus­sex reached 236 for two in 48 overs by stumps. Collins had fig­ures of one for 50 in 14 overs as Worces­ter­shire reached 313 all out. The Ba­jan pac­er ac­count­ed for mid­dle or­der bats­man James Cameron.