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After weeks of drought, the rain arrived, like a tolling bell, just in time for the County Championship restart.
Josh Thomas hit the only century of the day on a bonny day for title chasers Somerset. Thomas’s sprightly second first-class hundred, together with 96 on debut from New Zealand’s Henry Nicholls, left Taunton merry after being inserted by Essex on a surface friendlier than it looked.
