Since joining the Test side just 15 months ago, he has taken 89 wickets at 17.13 from his first 16 games through the simple tactic of landing the ball on a perfect line and length and consistently moving it half the width of the bat in either direction.
But his departure did not end the Somerset assault, with Kieswetter continuing his best season with the bat by hitting four sixes in his half-century before the declaration came.