Craig and Jack impress on day one
Despite the overnight rain, play got underway as scheduled at 11am on the opening day of this three-day pre-season match between Somerset and Glamorgan at the Cooper Associates County Ground.
Tom Kohler Cadmore and Josh Thomas made their way out to the middle under murky skies and shining floodlights, and after the opening over from Timm van der Gugten yielded no runs, Kohler Cadmore dispatched the first and last balls of the second over, sent down by Andy Gorvin, for trademark boundaries.
Unfortunately for the Somerset opener, that was as good as it got as he was bowled by van der Gugten with the penultimate ball of the third over with the total on 13.
The score had advanced to 29 when Thomas chopped Jamie McIlroy onto his stumps for 16 in the eighth over. That soon became 41 for three when a leading edge from James Rew (6) ballooned to Ben Kellaway at square cover to give McIlroy a second wicket.
Tom Lammonby and Tom Abell brought up the Somerset 50 in the 13th over and went on to share a stand of 46 before the former was bowled by Dan Douthwaite for 29 at 87 for four in the 26th over.
Abell (22*) and Lewis Goldsworthy (3*) took the hosts to lunch with the scoreboard displaying 93 for four.
Shorty after the break, Abell (26) miscued one from Tom Norton and the ball eventually dropped into the grateful hands of the bowler with just four runs added to the lunch total.
That brought Lewis Gregory to the crease and he dispatched his first delivery to the boundary to bring up the Somerset 100 in the 32nd over of the day.
With the score on 125, the Somerset skipper picked out Norton at deep mid wicket off the bowling of Gorvin and departed for nine. Goldsworthy (21) fell in the following over without addition to the total.
The Somerset innings needed impetus and fortunately for the home side it came in the form of a partnership between Jack Leach and Craig Overton. The pair brought up their 50 partnership from 68 balls and by the time the tea interval arrived, the total had moved to 195 for seven.
After the interval, the partnership had reached 93 when Leach was bowled by Kellaway for 47 from 55 balls at 218 for eight. Overton (46 from 70) was next to fall, bowled by Norton, just four runs later.
Josh Shaw was lbw to Kellaway as Somerset were dismissed for 223.
By the close of play, the visitors had reached 72 for one in reply, Asa Tribe (13) was the batter to fall, bowled by an absolute beauty by Alfie Ogborne.
