County Championship: Tom Lammonby hundred helps Somerset finish day one on top against Kent

< /figure>LV= County Championship Division One, Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton (day one)Somerset: 242-2: Lammonby 109, Goldsworthy 70*Kent: Not yet beatenSomerset lead Kent by 242 runs with eight wickets remainingMatch scorecard

Having played the previous 12 matches without reaching triple figures, the 23-year-old opener relieved the monkey in style by hitting a brilliant 109 off 151 balls, with 16 fours .

Lewis Goldsworthy marked his first championship appearance of the season by making 70 not out and contributing to a second-wicket stand of 132.

Kent's woes were compounded by an injury to Michael Hogan , the 42-year-old seamer limping inconsolably with what looked like a hamstring or thigh problem after bowling 11.2 overs for 30 runs.

Morning rain led to a 1:45 p.m. BST start, with the day's play initially reduced to 63 overs, and the Kent bowlers appeared to have ideal conditions when 'they entered the field with the field green and the floodlights on under an overcast sky.

But , having left out their specialist spinners, the visitors' seam attack failed to place enough balls in the right areas to capitalize. on any move, allowing Lammonby and Tom Abell to make a positive start to Somerset's innings.

First innings runs had long been a problem for Somerset, but Lammonby and Abell comfortably reached half-centuries in the 14th over, the former moving to fifty from 52 balls, with 10 fours.

Their partnership had reached 73 when Abell, on 20, played a loose shot off an Arafat delivery wide of off stump and edged ahead Tawanda Muyeye at first slip.

By this time Somerset were well placed and Goldsworthy, batting higher up the order than d used to, had...