HAMPSHIRE followed on after collapsing to their lowest score for four years against relegation rivals Somerset.

Following the loss of the morning session to rain, Gareth Berg took three of Somerset’s last four wickets to finish with 4-64 – his best figures in the LV County Championship for four years – as the visitors collapsed from 328-6 to 346 all out,

But Somerset’s bowlers also found conditions to their liking as they dismissed Hampshire for 147 – their lowest completed total since being skittled for 138 by Lancashire at Liverpool in September 2011, their last season in division one.

Hampshire closed the second day on 41-2, 158 behind, after openers Jimmy Adams (1 & 5) and Sean Terry (8 &19) were out for the second time in four hours.

They and Michael Carberry were dismissed inside the first nine overs of Hampshire’s initial reply during a stunning opening spell from Alfonso Thomas (7-4-15-3).

Adams was caught at mid-wicket and Carberry was caught behind pushing forward before Terry, having cut a remarkable six over backward point, was lbw shouldering arms.

Then England’s Craig Overton (4-64) made an impact on a wicket of variable bounce.

Will Smith was well caught at third slip and Liam Dawson, having hit 25 from only 29 balls in his first innings after being recalled, was caught behind.

When Adam Wheater (13) was bowled shouldering arms by Gregory in the next over, Hampshire were 65-6.

Sean Ervine (23) rallied briefly after tea. But he required treatment after being struck on the left hand by a ball that leapt off a length before Jim Allenby bowled him through the gate.

Berg top scored with a fluent 38 (60 balls, five fours), but was beaten by a brute of a ball from Overton, which he could only fend to gully.

Hampshire were asked to bat again, 199 behind, when Danny Briggs and Jackson Bird departed in successive overs.

Captain Adams was again beaten by Thomas, this time by a ball that kept low, and Trego celebrated wildly when he uprooted Terry’s off stump with a ball that came back into the right-hander.

Hampshire only needed 45 minutes to bowl out Somerset when play eventually began at 1.45pm, with Bird (2-75) beating Michael Bates (14) for pace after being cover-driven for four by the former Hampshire batsman before Berg completed his best figures since signing. But then Hampshire lost 12 of the 16 wickets to fall.