County Championship: Somerset batters shine against Northants

< /figure>LV= County Championship Division One, Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton (day three) Northamptonshire 255 & 66-1: Whiteman 29*Somerset 412: Kohler-Cadmore 130, Rew 89; White 5-103Northants (4 pts) Somerset run (7 pts) by 91 points Match scoreboard 199-4 at 412 all out, a 157 lead.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore, unbeaten on 95 overnight, fell for 130 - his first century in Somerset - and the pair shared a fifth-wicket stand of 164. Jack White finished with 5-103.

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Northants faced a tricky 20 overs before the close to start their second inning.

They finished 66-1, still 91 points behind, after losing Ricardo Vasconcelos and seeing their co-opener Hassan Azad forced into the abandonment injured.

The start had been delayed until 2pm BST by heavy morning rain, but after that , there was no interruption and spectators saw far more cricket than the gloomy weather forecast on Coronation Day suggested.

Rew, on the 22nd when play started, could have been dismissed in the first round as he called for a suicidal mid-wicket single White and was relieved to see the pitch of Rob Keogh miss the stumps at the bowler's end. 200 and put Kohler-Cadmore on strike.

If the former Yorkshire player lost sleep at due to being five short of a hundred overnight, it didn't show as he stepped onto the court and sent White over his head for six.

A cavalier century had occupied only 72 balls and featured 16 fours and two sixes.

Rew the cover drove Jordan Buckingham for four and two to bring up the h...