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There are some that will reflect back on Somerset’s win against Notts as a hard-fought victory, and whilst the side showed huge amounts of resilience, energy, character and ability, I think to describe the win as such to be a little misleading and unfair. That could be to suggest that Somerset scraped home, pulled one out of the bag, got lucky. But that is not so, Somerset beat … [Read more...] about Notts win sets up Surrey showdown for Somerset

The County Championship resumes this weekend with Somerset hosting Nottinghamshire - the top two teams in Division One on Saturday. While it is still early in the Championship campaign the significance of this game cannot be played down. Both teams have genuine title aspirations and both plenty of reasons for the naysayers to point to against those aspirations. When I sat … [Read more...] about Notts preview

So that's that then. Somerset miss out on progressing to the knock-out phase of this year's one-day cup competition by one point despite chasing down 356 to beat table-topping Hampshire on Wednesday evening. Much to the glee of my new found Twitter "friends" from Kent they progress with Hampshire and Essex.  A disappointing outcome for Somerset, especially given the way the … [Read more...] about RLODC: “So many “what-might-have-beens”

There are so many things that the true cricket fan should be concerned about at the moment - most of them stemming from the ECB but the statement earlier this week by Wasim Khan that the latest working party review is seriously considering getting rid of two divisions in the county championship is to my mind the most serious. Wasim Khan, the Chief Executive of second … [Read more...] about “Division one sides could out-perform the current England team!”

The much anticipated (by me) third volume of this wonderful series landed through my front door on Wednesday. For me this one has special significance - it is the one that ends with my first season watching Somerset and chronicles the names I grew to love and longed to have watched when my Dad regaled me with his memories of the 50s and 60s. I’ve been working my way through … [Read more...] about Somerset Cricketers: a very personal review