| LV= County Championship Division One, Cooper Associates County Floor, Taunton (day one) |
| Somerset: 242-2: Lammonby 109, Goldsworthy 70* |
| Kent: But to bat |
| Somerset lead Kent by 242 runs with eight wickets remaining |
| Match scorecard |
Tom Lammonby repaid Somerset’s religion together with his first century of the season because the hosts ran up 214 for 2 on a rain-shortened opening day of the County Championship match with Kent at Taunton.
Having performed in all 12 earlier video games with out reaching three figures, the 23-year-old opener obtained the monkey off his again in type by hitting an excellent 109 off 151 balls, with 16 fours.
Lewis Goldsworthy marked his first Championship look of the season by making 70 not out and contributing to a second-wicket stand of 132.
Kent’s woes had been compounded by an harm to Michael Hogan, the 42-year-old seamer limping off disconsolately with what appeared like a hamstring or thigh downside having bowled 11.2 overs for 30 runs.
Morning rain led to a 13:45 BST begin, with the day’s play initially being decreased to 63 overs, and Kent’s bowlers appeared to have ultimate situations after they took the sphere with the pitch inexperienced and the floodlights on beneath overcast skies.
However, having omitted their specialist spinners, the guests’ seam assault didn’t get sufficient balls in the correct areas to capitalise on any motion, permitting Lammonby and Tom Abell to make a optimistic begin to the Somerset innings.
First-innings runs have lengthy been an issue for Somerset, however Lammonby and Abell comfortably introduced up a half-century stand within the 14th over, the previous shifting to a fluent fifty off 52 balls, with 10 fours.
Their partnership had reached 73 when Abell, on 20, performed a unfastened shot to an Arafat supply broad of off stump and edged to Tawanda Muyeye at first slip.
By then Somerset had been nicely positioned and Goldsworthy, batting larger within the order than traditional having spent a lot of the season within the second XI, helped Lammonby construct on their encouraging begin.
The pair produced one other half-century stand off 83 balls, each producing an array of attacking photographs in taking the rating to 127 for one off 31 overs at tea.
Lammonby gave an opportunity on 76 at the beginning of the ultimate session when Daniel Bell-Drummond spilled a pointy likelihood at gully off Jaskaran Singh earlier than a two by way of the leg facet off Hogan took him to his highest rating of the summer time, beating the 78 made towards Lancashire at Outdated Trafford.
A single off Joey Evison took Lammonby to his hundred off 137 balls. It had been an apparently easy innings filled with sweetly-timed strokes, however hopes that he would nonetheless be there at stumps ended when he nibbled at a good supply from Bell-Drummond and edged by way of to wicketkeeper Harry Finch.
Goldsworthy’s innings misplaced nothing by comparability and he was nonetheless there, having confronted 150 balls and hit 9 fours, when unhealthy mild ended play for the day at 17:55 BST.
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