By Richard Edwards
THERE ARE starts to the season, and then there’s Tom Banton’s beginning to a Division One campaign that re-wrote the record books at Taunton.
The 26-year-old scored 371 against Worcestershire at Taunton to register the fifth-best score in the history of the County Championship and the highest effort by a Somerset player, toppling Justin Langer’s 342 against Surrey in 2006. His knock was also the second-highest ever first-class score by a No.5 batter behind Bill Pons-ford’s 429 in 1922, the highest by an English No.5, going past George Hi...
