County Championship: Nottinghamshire dominate Somerset on day two

Luke Fletcher (second left) hit his fifth first-class half-century and then became the first bowler to pass 50 Championship wickets this season

LV= County Championship Division One, Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton (day two):

Nottinghamshire 448: Patterson-White 101, Clarke 59, Fletcher 51; Abell 3-84

Somerset 87-7: Abell 35; Fletcher 4-21, Paterson 2-34

Somerset (2 pts) trail Nottinghamshire (6 pts) by 361 runs

Scorecard

Nottinghamshire dominated day two at Taunton to leave Somerset in deep trouble following a batting collapse.

After resuming on 282-6, a maiden first-class century for Liam Patterson-White (101) and Luke Fletcher’s 51 helped the visitors to 448 all out.

Fletcher (4-21) then took the first four wickets in Somerset’s reply to leave the hosts in disarray.

Captain Tom Abell top scored with 35 as they reached 87-7, 361 runs behind, when bad light ended play.

Abell, James Hildreth (12) and Tom Lammonby were the only Somerset batsmen to reach double figures as Dane Paterson…

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