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 Taunton
 Pic: Ross Kinnaird / Allsport
Somerset County Cricket Club
Clerical Medical County Ground
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 1JT

The home base of the Kenyan team is famed as much for King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, as it is for cricketing cavaliers of the order of Ian Botham and Vivian Richards, both of whom lit up the little ground with their deeds in the eighties.

Schedule: 15 May, Zimbabwe v Kenya
                26 May, Sri Lanka v India

Cricket history:
Only one LOI has been played at this venue: England (333-9 in 60 overs) v Sri Lanka (286 in 58 overs), 11-6-1983
Hundreds: 1
Highest score: 130 by David Gower for England
Five-wicket hauls: 1
Best bowling: 5-39 by Vic Marks for England

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