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They say 'many hands make light work', but for Somerset County Cricket Club it wasn't worth the risk when their team coach was blocked by some shocking parking.

Not when they had a match to be fit for the next day. The county were down in Hove to face Sussex in the Royal London One-Day Cup on Wednesday.

The night before they were heading towards the seafront when they were stopped in their tyre tracks by a small black Renault.

The car was supposed to be in one of two, long parking bays which ran alongside the road, but it was parked so badly its back end was jutting into the road, making it too narrow for the bus to pass.

Marcus Trescothick knocked on some nearby doors to try to find the owner and Peter Trego gave the car a nudge to test its weight. Some players wanted to lift the car out of the way with a collective effort.

They contemplated long and hard but, in the end, thought better of it with the match against Sussex coming up. Eventually, the coach driver started the long reverse back up the road to find an alternative route.

Somerset's communications team filmed the episode and here is what happened...

In the match itself, Somerset posted 283-8, with James Hildreth top-scoring on 81. Rain disrupted the Sussex innings and they ended up 62-4, meaning Somerset won by 68 runs on the Duckworth Lewis method.