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Shane Watson’s stint at Hampshire put him on the rise

9 May 2019 0 comments

…County Championship for promotion chasing Hampshire in June 2004 and wasted no time in making an impact. Somerset, it’s fair to say, didn’t know what had hit them. Watson brought…

Somerset sign IT20 star batsman Babar Azam

3 May 2019 0 comments

Somerset have signed Babar Azam the ICC’s IT20 number one ranked batsman in time for the T20 Blast, subject to the appropriate visa and No Objection Certificate (NOC) clearance. The…

Pringle column: Ed Smith’s answer to ‘Branderson’

18 April 2019 0 comments

…fit for long, are Jamie Overton of Somerset and Olly Stone of Warwickshire. Stone even went on England’s tour of the West Indies, but returned home after a stress injury…

Tom Moores: I would love to get in the Lions squad again

17 April 2019 0 comments

…due to get under way at home to Somerset on Thursday. Having only just survived in Division One last season, those at Trent Bridge will be striving to be in…

County Championship Division One – Lunch update

12 April 2019 0 comments

…from new-boy Liam Plunkett. Nottinghamshire vs Somerset Ten was the magic number for Nottinghamshire yesterday as Somerset’s top three batsmen Markus Trescothick (10), Azhar (10) and Michael Hildreth (10) all…

County Championship: Chris Rushworth gets results early doors

5 April 2019 0 comments

…with Slater top scoring with 76 off 163. At tea Notts were 222-3 with Joe Clarke (40) and Mullaney (31) at the crease. Somerset vs Kent Elsewhere Somerset and Kent…

Pringle column: How the MCC are looking at ways to speed up play

24 March 2019 0 comments

…Warwickshire, Tom Westley and Dan Lawrence of Essex and Somerset’s Tom Abell. Of the five, Westley is the only one to have played Test cricket, his brief foray ended when…

Brian Close will forever be one of cricket’s great mavericks

13 March 2019 0 comments

…playing, as he did, for England, Yorkshire and Somerset. The new street, in Baildon, a few miles north of Bradford, is called ‘Brian Close Walk’ and was opened by his…

FEATURE: Surrey’s Alec Stewart backs Jason Roy for Ashes glory

6 March 2019 0 comments

…for Somerset and Nottinghamshire have brought in more players again. “The standard will go up again and that means our standard must go up.” To achieve that – and in…

Who will stop Surrey winning the 2019 County Championship?

28 February 2019 0 comments

…Nottinghamshire raising their game in 2019, it remains to be seen whether they have what it takes to stop Surrey’s dominance. Somerset Somerset clawed their way to a commendable second…

Derek Pringle: Seam obsession in County game is the cause of our Test woes

14 February 2019 0 comments

…don’t get much of a look in, either in selection or during the match. If pitches are deliberately prepared to turn, as Somerset did with theirs at Taunton recently, they…

Somerset sign academy graduate Bartlett to new deal

14 January 2019 0 comments

…the Somerset academy in 2016 and signed his first professional contract with the club ahead of the 2017 season. Bartlett made his Somerset debut in the Specsavers County Championship match…

England Lions announce team to head to subcontinent

18 December 2018 0 comments

…Bess (Somerset) Sam Billings (Kent) Danny Briggs (Sussex) Matthew Carter (Nottinghamshire) Zak Chappell (Nottinghamshire) Joe Clarke (Nottinghamshire) Alex Davies (Lancashire) Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire) Lewis Gregory (Somerset) Sam Hain (Warwickshire) Tom…

Tom Banton follows up first-class debut in September with new Somerset deal

30 November 2018 0 comments

…remain with Somerset until at least the end of the 2020 season. Banton signed his first professional contract after graduating from the Somerset Academy at the end of 2017. He…

Ben Stokes has Bayliss in his corner ahead of ECB disciplinary meeting

28 November 2018 0 comments

…missed last winter’s Ashes tour Down Under after he was suspended by the ECB pending an investigation by Avon & Somerset Police. The 27-year-old was arrested following a fracas outside…

All-rounder Josh Davey signs contract extension at Somerset

28 November 2018 0 comments

Somerset all-rounder Josh Davey has signed a new contract extension which will see the Scotland International remain at the Cooper Associates County Ground until at least September 2020. The 28-year-old…

One-Day Cup 2019 schedule: Full fixtures for next season released

27 November 2018 0 comments

…v Lancashire (Trent Bridge); Somerset v Kent (The Cooper Associates County Ground); Sussex v Surrey (The 1st Central County Ground); Essex v Middlesex (Chelmsford) Sunday, April 21: Glamorgan v Somerset…

County Championship 2019 fixtures: Division One schedule

27 November 2018 0 comments

…(Beckenham); Somerset v Warwickshire (The Cooper Associates County Ground) Monday, May 27: Yorkshire v Hampshire (Emerald Headingley); Warwickshire v Surrey (Edgbaston); Essex v Kent (Chelmsford) Monday, June 3: Surrey v Somerset (Guildford);…

Craig Overton returns home from England Lions tour of UAE with injury

16 November 2018 0 comments

Somerset seamer Craig Overton has returned home from the Lions tour of the UAE after scans revealed he has sustained an injury to his lower back. Overton, 24, made his…

England spinner Jack Leach reflects on frustrating day in Pallekele

15 November 2018 0 comments

…be extra patient, always asking questions of the batter,” the Somerset off-spinner told reporters. “I feel I could have done that a little better. Something I have to take away…

VIDEO: 5 key moments from day one in England’s second Test against Sri Lanka

14 November 2018 0 comments

…Leach rather than Moeen Ali or Adil Rashid following five overs of pace bowling by Anderson and Curran. And the Somerset off-spinner produced a moment of magic to get Kaushal…

TCP County Championship Team of the Year – Division One

12 October 2018 0 comments

…a number of others unlucky to miss out. What might surprise readers more however, is the decision to select two players from relegated Lancashire. Worcestershire, Hampshire, Somerset, Yorkshire and Essex…

Ex-England batsman Compton retires from cricket

5 October 2018 0 comments

…Championship success in 2016. As well as this, the batsman spent five years at Somerset and, in total, he scored 12,168 first-class runs at an average of 40 with 27…

The summer is over, how has national selector Ed Smith fared in his first with England?

2 October 2018 0 comments

…which to make such call, which in turn suggests the original judgment was based on the slightest of foundations. Frozen: Somerset spinner Dom Bess was in and out of the…

Tongue ruled out of Lions squad for UAE with injury

28 September 2018 0 comments

…Clarke (Worcestershire), Nick Gubbins (Middlesex), Max Holden (Middlesex), Tom Kohler-Cadmore (Yorkshire), Liam Livingstone (Lancashire), Craig Overton (Somerset), Jamie Overton (Somerset), Matt Parkinson (Lancashire), Jamie Porter (Essex), Jason Roy (Surrey), Saqib…