Tahir’s whirlwind denies Trescothick his final prize

Nottinghamshire 401 and 58 for 2 lead Somerset 437 (Trescothick 218, Allenby 63, Myburgh 54, Tahir 7-112) by 22 runsScorecard

It was moving day in the Championship, but so hot that any form of moving took considerable resolve. The sort of conditions when young wannabees reckon they can outlast the senior citizens of the county circuit on energy alone and when the senior citizens shrug that they have seen it all before and just as often come out on top.

Around mid-afternoon, one stripped-to-the-waste Nottinghamshire spectator was splashing his bare torso with emergency cold water in a Members’ Toilet, groaning as he did so, drying himself with paper towels as if a state of emergency had been called. One day of 35C and England was falling apart. “I can’t stand much more of this,” he volunteered, so mentally destroyed that he briefly forgot the rule in conservative parts that chat in a public convenience should be determinedly avoided.

Meanwhile, Marcus Trescothick and Imran Tahir were made of sterner stuff.

Trescothick, if he was a lesser man, would have drawn alongside Harold Gimblett as Somerset’s leading century-maker on the second day and left it to younger men on the third. Instead, he extended his unbeaten 117 to 218 – more than half the runs off the bat – before he was last out. By then, he was bereft of support as Tahir’s claimed his seventh wickets, his capacious frame sweating from places where it had never sweated since unfortunate circumstances caused him …

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