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England players set to make T20 Blast and One-Day Cup appearances

14 June 2016 0 comments

…Spitfires v Somerset June 14 and Essex June 15 (ODC) and Glamorgan June 17 (T20B) Jos Buttler – Lancashire Lightning v Yorkshire Vikings June 15 (ODC) and Northants Steelbacks June…

Paul Nixon column – All counties need equal TV exposure

14 June 2016 1 comment

…six times, and it’s just a case of making the rich richer. Somerset are being shown seven times, but that Chris Gayle is playing for them could have a huge…

Where are they now? Warwickshire – John Player Sunday League Champions 1980

14 June 2016 0 comments

…chasing down 181. They held off Somerset in second place by two points after losing the final game of the season at Edgbaston to their nearest rivals by 26 runs….

Martin Johnson column – There are some guys who just thrive off being bad

13 June 2016 0 comments

A nicer man than Vic Marks would be hard to find, and the dialogue as he walked out to bat for Somerset against Hampshire one day in the Seventies had…

Where are they now? Leicestershire – 2001 runners up Sunday League and C&G Trophy

7 June 2016 0 comments

…he also played every game as they pulled up just short losing the C&G Final by 41 to Somerset at Lord’s. “Fundamentally we were disappointed not to have won two…

Umpires are unsung heroes of our game

6 June 2016 0 comments

…to Somerset and be meant to start the next day. “Sometimes it’s not ideal because you can go from a floodlit game finishing at 10.30 in the evening and very…

Where are they now? Glamorgan – National League winners 2002 & 2004

30 May 2016 0 comments

…of cricket at Somerset CCC. Robert Croft: An England spinner who was three times voted Glamorgan’s player of the year. Was appointed head coach of the county in February. Adrian…

Martin Johnson column – ‘Sorry, you will have to write it in office. I can’t cope’

29 May 2016 0 comments

…interest from Leicestershire despite them having Winston Benjamin on their books as their overseas player. Hungry was once offered a tour game by Somerset against the Sri Lankans before deciding…

Paul Nixon column – Westley has look of future England Test star

16 May 2016 0 comments

…but it wasn’t through lack of trying. There were a lot of teams like Sussex and Somerset in winning positions, who would have wrapped the game up had it not…

Where are they now? Buckinghamshire – Minor Counties champions 1969

9 May 2016 0 comments

…in Taunton, Somerset. Ken Young: All rounder. Now retired living in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. David Smith: A seamer who lives in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Ran a West London-based sheet metal and…

Golden boy Root falls for first ball dismissal on Yorkshire return

5 May 2016 0 comments

…Headingley last June. However, the 25-year-old hadn’t made a Championship start for Yorkshire since the final game of their previous season, when 97 runs helped draw the game with Somerset…

Why Leicester fairytale can’t be repeated by cricket cousins

26 April 2016 0 comments

…ever. In 2016, for the first time, eight of the nine counties in Division One of the County Championship are from Test-playing grounds; the only exception is Somerset, who are…

Where are they now? Hampshire – Second Division runners up 2001

26 April 2016 0 comments

…in Southampton after retiring. Jimmy Cook: First-team coach and formerly prolific-scoring batsman for Somerset who won three South Africa caps. Now runs his own academy. His son Stephen plays for…

Bravo Tango, you’ve earned this accolade from the MCC

19 April 2016 0 comments

…and Somerset, had come close to stalling at 19. A debilitating back injury at Leicestershire where he started as a £25-a-week trainee almost finished his professional game before he even…

Marcus Trescothick: Tom Abell is knocking on the door

12 April 2016 0 comments

…of his Somerset opening partner, Tom Abell. Abell, 22, has made only one first-class century, 131 out of a first-wicket stand of 272 with the veteran left-hander against Hampshire at…

Yasir Arafat moves back to Somerset on loan

22 March 2016 0 comments

YASIR Arafat has returned to Somerset having signed a season-long loan from Hampshire as a non-overseas player. Arafat, 34, has a UK passport and previously played for Somerset in their…

Where are they now? Northamptonshire – 2000 Division Two County Champions

22 March 2016 0 comments

…ethic – they knew all I wanted to do was bowl. “I wasn’t even in the side when we went down to Somerset for the first game in the B&H…

Don’t Bash Blast, franchise system won’t work for us

20 February 2016 0 comments

…county every year, pairing each first-class county with a county deprived of the pro game: Somerset could be paired with Devon; Essex with Cambridgeshire; Northants with Norfolk and so on….

Where are they now? Durham – 1992 County Championship debutants

9 February 2016 0 comments

…season against Glamorgan by an innings and 104 runs and then seeing off Botham’s former county Somerset by eight wickets but they still finished bottom of the pile. Graveney points…

Chris Gayle joins Somerset for t20 Blast

27 January 2016 0 comments

CONTROVERSIAL West Indian Chris Gayle will be back at Taunton this summer after agreeing a deal to play in the T20 Blast for Somerset. Gayle appeared for the county in…

Marcus Trescothick steps down as Somerset skipper

21 January 2016 0 comments

CHRIS Rogers will lead Somerset in this summer’s County Championship after Marcus Trescothick stepped down from the role. Trescothick, 40, lead the side for six years and the former England…

Bowlers intimidate… but can batsmen?

19 January 2016 0 comments

…bowled “the most awkward and nastiest spell” he ever faced. Representing Somerset, Waugh related how tense his colleagues were before a game against Surrey: “All week in the lead-up to…

Where are they now? Zimbabwe’s 1992 World Cup win over England

19 January 2016 1 comment

…Dave Houghton: Batsman and captain went into coaching and has coached Derbyshire, Somerset and is now batting coach at Middlesex. Eddo Brandes: Fast bowler who was a chicken farmer. Moved…

Hosts named for Women’s Super League

15 January 2016 0 comments

GLOUCESTERSHIRE will team up with Somerset as a host for the inaugural Women’s Cricket Super League this summer. The two counties, alongside University of Exeter will form a South West…

Where are they now? Lincolnshire – 1974 Gillette Cup giant-killers

5 January 2016 0 comments

…as a senior manager for the Inland Revenue. Cliff Barker: Seamer who also worked for the Ross Group then became a production administrator from his base in Nailsea, north Somerset….