As the County Championship game in Taunton meandered towards a draw, Ishan Kishan rolled his arm over to put an end to proceedings.
Kishan had started his stint for Nottinghamshire on a high, with a 98-ball 87 from No.6 against Yorkshire at Trent Bridge. He also held a catch – off Mohammad Abbas, in a rare India-Pakistan collaboration – and effected a stumping. Nottinghamshire batted out time after Yorkshire took a 23-run first-innings lead.
Kishan continued with his form in the next game, against Somerset at Taunton. James Rew (58), Tom Abell (64), and Tom Banton (84) took the hosts to 379 as Abbas returned 3-59 and Brett Hutton 3-94. Kishan held three catches.
Ben Slater (124) and Jack Haynes (157) then led the Notts reply. Batting at six, Kishan hit eight fours and two sixes in his 128-ball 77. After he fell, Haynes continued with Lyndon James (66) to put the tourists into the lead. They finished on 509 even as Jack Leach had 6-121 and Archie Vaughan 3-111.
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Liam Patterson-White’s (4-104) triple strike then reduced Somerset to 28-3, but Nottinghamshire could not push for a win. Tom Kohler-Cadmore held the innings together with an unbeaten 147. Patterson-White returned to dismiss Rew, but Kohler-Cadmore and Abell played out time. Somerset’s declaration on 238-4 concluded the match.
Kishan bowled the last over of the game. Until this match, he had bowled only nine wicketless overs in a first-class career spanning more than a decade. After bowling four off-breaks from over the wicket in an action reminiscent of Harbhajan Singh’s (including a very slow, loopy delivery), he switched to round the wicket for his leg-breaks with a Shane Warne action. The over went for a solitary run.
