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ALMANAC 2019 SCCC Somerset County Cricket Club 2019-2020 2019-2020 The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton, Somerset TA1 1JT. Telephone: 01823 425301 Email: [email protected] Website: www.somersetcountycc.co.uk Somerset County Sports Shop: 01823 337597 Centre of Cricketing Excellence: 01823 352266 Somerset Cricket Museum: 01823 275893 Honorary Life Members Contents include: President’s & Chairman’s Reports PW Anderson • Sir Ian Botham Squad Profiles AR Caddick • J Davey Specsavers County Championship Mrs M Elworthy-Coggan Vitality Blast DJL Gabbitass • J Garner • MF Hill Royal London One-Day Cup RC Kerslake • Mrs L Kerslake • MJ Kitchen Somerset Cricket Board JL Langer • VJ Marks • AT Moulding Including Somerset Age Group, RA O’Donnell • Sir Christopher Ondaatje Youth & Local League Cricket KE Palmer MBE • R Parsons • Sir Viv Richards Obituaries PJ Robinson • BC Rose • R Snelling 2020 Fixtures GA Stedall • CJ Twort • R Virgin D Wood Editor’s acknowledgements What a season 2019 turned out to be with silverware in the Royal London One-Day Cup, runners up in the Specsavers County Championship, three ICC Cricket World Cup games and the Women’s Ashes Test Match. Within the pages of this book we have tried to include all of the above plus give an overview of all the recreational cricket that goes on within Somerset. I am indebted to everyone who has contributed in any way- the players and officials at the Club, colleagues in the press box and the photographers, plus all of the league secretaries and team managers who have supplied their reports. Everyone has given freely of their time and energy and to you all I am extremely grateful, without your help this Almanac would not have come to fruition. Thanks must also go to Polly Rhodes and Colin Crees the First XI and Second XI team scorers and to Matt Counsell from the Somerset Cricket Board. I owe a special thank you to Peter Lane who in addition to his helpful advice and support throughout, has provided the player profiles and career records, as well as helping with proof reading. Richard Walsh Printed by MailaDoc Ltd, Somerset £10 Year Chief Executive Somerset Officials 1891-2019 1988-2005 P.W. Anderson 2005-2011 R. Gould Year President 2011-2017 GW. Lavender 1891-1915 Hon. Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane, B.T. 2017-18 L.A.Cooper 1916-1922 H.E. Murray Anderdon 2018-19 A.J Cornish. 1923 A.E Newton 1924 The Marquis of Bath, KG 1925 Lt-Col. Sir Dennis F. Boles, B.T. Somerset CCC Captains 1882-2019 1926 Col. H.M. Ridley 1927 Rev. Preb. A.P. Wickham Year Captain 1928 Col. H.M. Ridley 1882-1884 S.C. Newton 1929 L.C.H. Palairet 1885 E. Sainsbury 1930 V.T. Hill 1891-1893 H.T. Hewett 1931-1932 Major A.G. Barrett 1894-1906 S.M.J. Woods 1933 Lt-Col. W.0. Gibbs 1907 L.C.H. Palairet 1934-1935 Lt-Col. Sir Dennis Boles, B.T. 1908-1912 J. Daniell 1936 The Duke of Somerset 1913-1914 E.S.M. Poyntz 1937-1946 R.C.N. Palairet 1919-1926 J. Daniell 1946-1949 J. Daniell 1927-1931 J.C. White 1950-1953 Major G.E. Longrigg 1932-1937 R.A. lngle 1954-1960 The Bishop of Bath & Wells 1938-1946 E.F. Longrigg 1961 J.C. White 1947 R.J.O. Meyer 1962-1965 W.T. Greswell 1948 N.S. Mitchell-Innes 1966-1967 Lord Hylton G.E.S. Woodhouse 1968-1971 E.F. Longrigg J.W. Seamer 1971-1976 R.V. Showering 1949 G.E.S. Woodhouse 1976-1991 C.R.M. Atkinson 1950-1952 S.S. Rogers 1991-1996 J. Luff 1953-1954 B.G. Brocklehurst 1996-2003 M.F. Hill 1955 G.G. Tordoff 2004-2015 R. C. Kerslake 1956-1959 M.F. Tremlett 2016-2019 R. Parsons 1960-1964 H.W. Stephenson 2019- B. C. Rose 1965-1967 C.R.M. Atkinson 1968 R.C. Kerslake Year Chairman 1969-1971 B.A. Langford 1952-1953 Major G.E. Longrigg 1972-1977 D.B. Close 1954-1959 A.H. Southwood 1978-1983 B.C. Rose 1960-1969 E.F. Longrigg 1984-1985 LT. Botham 1969-1971 Lt-Col. G.C.G. Grey 1986-1988 P.M. Roebuck 1972-1973 C.R.M. Atkinson Aug 88-89 V.J. Marks 1974-1976 H.W. Hoskins 1990-1993 C.J. Tavare 1977-1978 L.G. Creed 1994-1996 A.N. Hayhurst 1979 R.C. Kerslake 1997-1998 P.D. Bowler 1979-1982 J.M. Jeffrey 1999-2002 J. Cox 1983-1987 M.F. Hill 2003-2004 M. Burns 1987-1988 A.J. Gardner 2005 G.C. Smith/I.D. Blackwell 1988-2002 R. Parsons 2006 I.D. Blackwell 2003-2007 C.G. Clarke 2007-2009 J.L. Langer 2008-2017 A.J. Nash 2010-2015 M.E.Trescothick 2018- 2019 C.F.B.Clark. 2016 C.J.L. Rogers Until 1952 the President of the club also acted as 2017- T.B. Abell Chairman Year Secretary 1913-1919 R. Brooks-King 1920-1922 S.M.J. Woods 1923-1931 A.F. Davey 1932-1936 J. Daniell 1937-1949 Brig. E.H. Lancaster 1950 N.J.C. Daniell 1950-1955 Air Vice-Marshall M.L. Taylor 1955-1969 R. Robinson 1970-1975 A.K. James 1975-1979 R.G. Stevens .1979-1982 D.G. Seward 1982-1988 A.S. Brown 2 Somerset County Cricket Club SCCC Somerset County Cricket Club 2019 2019-2020 Specsavers County Championship - Division 1 Final Table Teams P W L D Bat Bowl Ded Pts Essex 14 9 1 4 26 38 228 Somerset 14 9 3 2 25 38 217 Hampshire 14 5 3 6 31 36 176 Kent 14 5 5 4 36 36 172 Yorkshire 14 5 4 5 24 36 165 Surrey 14 2 6 6 33 38 133 Warwickshire 14 3 6 5 26 32 131 Nottinghamshire 14 0 10 4 16 32 67 Royal London One-Day Cup - Group B Final Table Teams P W L T N/R R/R Pts Hampshire 8 7 1 0 0 1.020 14 Middlesex 8 6 2 0 0 0.135 12 Somerset 8 5 3 0 0 0.505 10 Gloucestershire 8 5 3 0 0 0.270 10 Sussex 8 4 4 0 0 0.013 8 Glamorgan 8 3 4 0 1 -0.298 7 Kent 8 2 5 0 1 -0.966 5 Essex 8 2 6 0 0 0.325 4 Surrey 8 1 7 0 0 -1.007 2 T20 Vitality Blast - South Group Final Table Teams P W L T N/R R/R Pts Sussex Sharks 14 8 3 1 2 0.803 19 Gloucestershire 14 7 3 1 3 0.242 18 Middlesex 14 7 6 0 1 0.216 15 Essex Eagles 14 5 4 1 4 -0.464 15 Kent Spitfires 14 6 6 0 2 0.000 14 Somerset 14 6 7 0 1 0.448 13 Hampshire 14 5 6 1 2 0.021 13 Surrey 14 5 7 1 1 -0.246 12 Glamorgan 14 1 8 1 4 -1.381 7 The The 2019 2019 Almanac Almanac and and Season Season Review Review 3 President’s Report 2019 By Brian Rose have particularly enjoyed The Somerset fans have always loved their local players my first season as President and they recognize all of the hard work that has gone into Iof Somerset County Cricket developing that talent, which doesn’t happen overnight but Club because it has taken takes several years. me back to the days when I was very proud to walk onto the pitch at Lord’s as Brian Close was captain and President of Somerset and have a photograph taken with he had inherited a growing Tom Abell and the boys holding a trophy, for the first time group of young players. since I was director of cricket. The squad that we have Yes we have been very, very close to the holy grail- the here at the club has got the County Championship for the last three or four years, but I same feeling to me in that can go back to when I was Director of Cricket and Captain the talent process we have and we came second two or three times. It is heartbreaking put in place has borne a lot of fruits in recent years and we when it doesn’t happen, but what it does is make you try have got a nucleus of our own young players who are very harder the following year and the following year, and we must never lose this determination to strive for that elusive talented, some of whom are proving themselves already, trophy. while others still have a way to go. One of the concerns I have got regarding the ECB’s ideas In terms of the coaching staff we have brought back into for the current structure of cricket including The Hundred, the club the same ethos we had 10 years ago with Andy is that I don’t ever want to see the devaluation of the Hurry and Jason Kerr, along with Steve Snell who is doing a County Championship in terms of the skills you need to win remarkable job in the Academy. The proof of this is that we it and the pride you get from that achievement. have taken on three young players from the Academy for We need the County Championship to develop both the next year, which is a great sign for the future of the club.