Four members of the Somerset CCC first team squad took part in a number of cake based challenges at a local special school this week to help support Children in Need. Alex Barrow, Adam Dibble, George Dockrell and Jack Leach paid a visit to Selworthy School in Taunton on Wednesday to help the pupils in their celebrations. Selworthy is a co-educational special school for … [Read more...] about Somerset players support the BBC’s ‘Children In Need’ campaign
2014
Yorkshire clash brings season full circle for Somerset
And so Somerset’s 2014 season ends as it began with a four-day LV County Championship match against Yorkshire, this time away at Headingley. A lot has changed since the two sides last met at the County Ground in mid-April when Somerset piled up a first innings total of 553 in a drawn game on a flat pitch. … [Read more...] about Yorkshire clash brings season full circle for Somerset
Meeting Andy Nash
Andy Nash has been chairman of Somerset County Cricket Club since 2008. His first season in charge was the club’s first season back in the top flight of the County Championship and very much the start of a new dawn, one that saw Somerset start to compete at the highest level in all formats of the game on the Cricket field and become a more robust, profitable and sustainable … [Read more...] about Meeting Andy Nash
Cider Watch: Abell in the runs yet again as Taunton close the gap on leaders Norton
West of England Premier Cricket League Bristol Somerset - Saturday 9 August 2014 Somerset’s Tom Abell scored a half century as Taunton inflicted the season’s first defeat on runaway league leaders Midsomer Norton at Gipsy Lane on Saturday. The win for second placed Taunton sets up an intriguing run-in to the season’s end with only one promotion spot available. Taunton opening … [Read more...] about Cider Watch: Abell in the runs yet again as Taunton close the gap on leaders Norton
Meeting Marcus Trescothick
I first met Marcus Trescothick in the summer of 2000 at Honiton Cricket Club, for whom I was a member in those days. The event was a business sixes day as part of Peter Bowler’s benefit season and Marcus had agreed to partake and support his team-mate. Marcus had yet to play for England on the day we shared a few minutes talk time. In fact on that day the England team had been … [Read more...] about Meeting Marcus Trescothick