The opportunity for Joe Clarke and Will Young to achieve a 400 partnership was unfortunately lost due to heavy rain, which washed out the majority of the final day of Nottinghamshire's Vitality County Championship First Division match with Somerset at Taunton.
Only nine overs were possible at the start of the morning session, which began with the visitors at 418 for 2 in their second innings, leading by 157 runs.
Having already established a new record for a third wicket stand in Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club history, Joe Clarke and Will Young contributed an additional 22 runs, bringing the total to 440 before the rain began at 11:40 a.m. Their partnership had reached 392. Clarke was left unbeaten on 213 and Young on 174 as Somerset took 15 points from the draw and Notts ten
The early finish also prevented the pair from breaking the Notts record stand for any wicket. The unbroken opening stand of 406 put together by Darren Bicknell and Guy Welton against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in 2000 remains the current record.
This was Clarke's third century of the season, placing him one run behind Warwickshire captain Alex Davies at the top of the run-scoring charts in Division One.