Only 11 balls were bowled in the day as rain and bad light frustrated players from Kent and Somerset on day two of their Festival Week championship match in Canterbury.

Morning showers delayed the start until 12.30 before Matthew Bulbeck finally ran in to bowl the first ball of the day from the Nackington Road End as Kent resumed on their overnight score of 381 for four.

The country's leading run-scorer David Fulton, with 1,313 already to his credit, was unbeaten on 160 overnight but fenced at the first ball of the day to hear a huge appeal for a catch at the wicket by Somerset keeper Rob Turner.

Umpire John Steele dismissed the appeal, allowing Fulton to take three off the over to face up to Steffan Jones' next over from the Pavilion End.

Fulton then steered a boundary to third man to move Kent's score on to 388 for four, but with only five deliveries of the over gone the rain returned and the players trooped off for lunch.

The Canterbury ground-staff started to remove the covers mid-afternoon but another torrent forced umpires Steele and Vanburn Holder to abandon the day's play at 5pm.

Somerset seamer Richard Johnson, pulled out of the match yesterday on standby for the England Test squad at Trent Bridge, returned to St Lawrence to resume his role in the match but the afternoon's weather prevented his recall to arms.

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