Brian Rose – the former Somerset captain, cricket chairman and director of cricket – selects his county’s all-star line-up
1. HAROLD GIMBLETT
329 matches (in first-class cricket for Somerset – 1935-54), 21,142 runs at 36.96, 49 hundreds, 110 fifties; 41 wickets at 50.09
The highest run-scorer in Somerset’s history, and their leading centurion until Marcus Trescothick passed him a few years ago, picking Harold was an absolute no-brainer.
I was privileged to play three games with him for the MCC when I was a very young player. I was amazed. He must have been in his mid-to-late 50s by then and...
