Cricket Tom's ton steers Somerset to safety against Nottinghamshire

SOMERSET’S Tom Kohler-Cadmore defied Nottinghamshire with a match-saving century as the Rothesay County Championship Division One match at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton, ended in a draw.

- By RICHARD LATHAM

The visitors had realistic hopes of victory when reducing their opponents to 28-3, still needing 102 to avoid an innings defeat. But Kohler-Cadmore hit an unbeaten 147, off 196 balls, with 11 fours and six sixes, sharing stands of 96 with James Rew and 114 with Tom Abell, to see Somerset to 238-4 by the time the players shook hands at 4.50pm.

Left-arm spinner Liam Patterson-White bowled 29 overs unchanged from the River End either side of lunch and finished with 4-104 from 33, but no other Notts bowler could make a significant impression with the Kookaburra ball on a pitch offering only occasional turn and no assistance for the seamers. Somerset took 11 points from the game and Notts 12.

The home side set out at 4-1, having lost nightwatchman Matt Henry to the only over bowled the previous evening. Soon it was 18-2 as Sean Dickson was rapped on the back pad by a ball from Patterson-White that turned and departed lbw for six.