Kasey Aldridge and James Rew’s partnership started with Somerset wobbling on 80-5LV= County Championship Division One, Cooper Associates County Floor, Taunton (day one)Somerset 196-5: Rew 77*; Abbott 4-20Hampshire: But to batSomerset 0 pts, Hampshire 1 ptMatch scorecard
James Rew and Kasey Aldridge batted Somerset out of a deep gap created by Hampshire seamer Kyle Abbott on a rain-interrupted opening day of the County Championship match with Hampshire at Taunton.
The skilled Abbott, who boasts a prolific document towards the Cidermen, claimed 4-10 from seven overs and a run out because the hosts slipped to 80-5 after profitable the toss on what seemed a wonderful batting pitch.
However sixth-wicket pair Rew (77 not out) and Aldridge (55 not out), with a mixed age of simply 41, then confirmed spectacular maturity to place collectively an unbroken stand of 116 in 26 overs earlier than the climate had the ultimate say with Somerset 196-5, whereas Abbott ended the day with figures of 4-20.
Altogether, 39 overs had been misplaced – together with 19 on the finish of the day – however what motion there was supplied positives for each groups.
Somerset rested Craig Overton, Lewis Gregory, Matt Henry, Ben Inexperienced and Tom Kohler-Cadmore forward of Saturday’s Vitality Blast Finals Day at Edgbaston. Dom Bess returned to their staff at the beginning of a short-term mortgage from Yorkshire as certainly one of two specialist spinners, the opposite being Shoaib Bashir.
It was no shock when residence skipper Tom Abell elected to take first use of a dry-looking pitch. Tom Lammonby and Sean Dickson took the overall to 26 within the seventh over earlier than Abbott, who had changed Keith Barker on the Marcus Trescothick Pavilion Finish, made his first impression.
Lammonby, on 15, drove at a good-length ball and edged a catch by means of to wicketkeeper Ben Brown. Quickly it was 36-2 as Abell acquired a vanguard to Abbott and was caught and bowled for 5.
With 5 runs added, Dickson related with a candy straight drive, solely to see Abbott deflect the ball onto the stumps on the bowler’s…
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