County Championship: Sam Whiteman steers Northants to draw with Somerset at Taunton
LV=County Championship Division One, Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton Kohler-Cadmore 130, Rew 89; White 5-103Skipper Sam Whiteman's first Northamptonshire century batted them to safety on the final day of the County Championship match with Somerset at Taunton.
The home bowlers expected to have to toil for every wicket as Northamptonshire began the day needing 91 to avoid an innings defeat, with nine wickets in hand. So it proved on a pitch which had offered little in the way of seam movement or turn on day three. By then Whiteman had reached a 104-ball 50, with five fours and a six over mid-wicket off Leach. More importantly, 20 overs of the day had elapsed before Somerset made the breakthrough.
A draw was looking increasingly likely, but, having moved confidently to 33, Zaib carelessly lifted a ball from Overton to fine leg where Leach held a testing catch. Harry Gouldstone quickly followed for a duck to another fine catch, this time by Tom Kohler-Cadmore at first slip, his task made more difficult by Overton diving in front of him to try and take the ball at second slip.
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