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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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List Of Somerset County Cricket Club Players With 100 Or More First-class Or List A Appearances

Somerset County Cricket Club are an English cricket club based in Taunton, Somerset. The club was founded in 1875 after a match between "Gentlemen of Somerset" and "Gentlemen of Devon" in Sidmouth, Devon. Somerset played their first undisputed first-class cricket match in 1882 against Lancashire. After missing the first season of the official County Championship, Somerset was admitted for the second in 1891, and have participated in the competition ever since. The club have played one-day cricket since its introduction to the English game in 1963, winning their first trophy in the 1979 Gillette Cup. All players who have played in 100 first-class or List A cricket matches are listed below. Only four players have made over 100 appearances in Twenty20 cricket for Somerset, James Hildreth currently holds the record for the most matches in the format for the club, having made 205 appearances.

Brian Langford holds the record for the greatest number of first-class appearances for Somerset. Between 1953 and 1974 the right-arm off break bowler played 504 times for the club. Only three other players have made more than 400 appearances for Somerset, and no-one has reached the milestone since Langford. Jack White, one of the three, is the club's leading wicket-taker in first-class cricket, claiming 2,165 dismissals for the county between 1909 and 1937. Harold Gimblett's tally of 21,142 first-class runs is the most by a Somerset cricketer, over 1,000 more than the next, Marcus Trescothick.

Englishmen Peter Denning and Graham Rose, jointly hold the record for most List A appearances for Somerset, while Marcus Trescothick holds the record for the most runs in one-day cricket for Somerset, with 7,374 from his twenty-one years with the county. Barbadian Hallam Moseley ranks as the top wicket-taker, claiming 309 wickets in one-day cricket, nine more than England Test cricketer Ian Botham.

Key

  •  *  denotes that player is still active for Somerset.
  • Apps denotes the number of appearances the player has made for Somerset.
  • Runs denotes the number of runs scored by the player for Somerset.
  • Wkts denotes the number of wickets taken by the player for Somerset.
  • Players are initially listed according to the date of their first-team debut for the club.
  • Players in bold have appeared in either Test or One Day International matches for their country.

Players

Name Nationality Somerset
career
Apps Runs Wkts Apps Runs Wkts References
First-class List A
George Nichols  England 1891–1899 134 2,793 291
Gerald Fowler  England 1891–1903 119 3,472 76
Ted Tyler  England 1891–1907 177 2,875 864
Lionel Palairet  England 1891–1909 222 13,851 87
Sammy Woods  Australia/ England 1891–1910 299 12,637 556
Vernon Hill  England 1891–1912 121 3,842 24
Arthur Newton  England 1891–1914 197 3,063 0
Ernie Robson  England 1895–1923 424 12,427 1,122
Beaumont Cranfield  England 1897–1908 125 1,250 563
John Daniell  England 1898–1927 287 9,824 6
Talbot Lewis  England 1899–1914 208 7,633 513
Len Braund  England 1899–1920 281 12,218 684
Peter Randall Johnson  England 1901–1927 229 10,202 3
Massey Poyntz  England 1905–1919 102 2,990 8
Bill Greswell  England 1908–1930 115 2,416 454
Jack White  England 1909–1937 409 11,375 2,165
Jimmy Bridges  England 1911–1929 214 2,414 685
Jack MacBryan  England 1911–1931 156 8,372 0
Tom Young  England 1911–1933 310 13,081 388
Sydney Rippon  England 1914–1937 102 3,788 3
Dar Lyon  England 1920–1938 123 6,227 8
George Hunt  England 1921–1931 233 4,952 386
Guy Earle  England 1922–1931 152 4,627 86
Reggie Ingle  England 1923–1939 309 9,401 0
Wally Luckes  England 1924–1949 365 5,710 0
Box Case  England 1925–1935 255 8,515 0
Jack Lee  England 1925–1936 241 7,852 49
Bunty Longrigg  England 1925–1947 219 8,329 0
Dickie Burrough  England 1927–1947 171 5,316 0
Arthur Wellard  England 1927–1947 391 11,432 1,517
Michael Bennett  England 1928–1939 109 2,330 14
Frank Lee  England 1929–1947 328 15,243 23
Horace Hazell  England 1929–1952 350 2,280 957
Bertie Buse  England 1929–1953 304 10,623 657
Bill Andrews  England 1930–1947 226 4,833 750
Harold Gimblett  England 1935–1954 329 21,142 41
Johnny Lawrence  England 1946–1955 281 9,094 791
Les Angell  England 1947–1956 132 4,596 0
Maurice Tremlett  England 1947–1960 353 15,195 326
Stuart Rogers  England 1948–1953 118 3,607 2
Harold Stephenson  England 1948–1964 427 12,473 0 1 4 0
Peter Wight  West Indies 1953–1965 321 16,965 62 6 56 0
Brian Langford  England 1953–1974 504 7,513 1,390 66 441 65
John McMahon  England 1954–1957 115 645 349
Geoff Lomax  England 1954–1962 211 7,516 235
Graham Atkinson  England 1954–1966 271 14,468 4 10 297 0
Bryan Lobb  England 1955–1969 115 624 368
Ken Palmer  England 1955–1969 302 7,567 837 24 137 34
Colin McCool  Australia 1956–1960 138 7,913 219
Brian Roe  England 1957–1966 131 4,859 2 5 55 0
Chris Greetham  England 1957–1966 205 6,723 195 10 150 3
Bill Alley  Australia 1957–1968 350 16,644 738 16 281 25
Roy Virgin  England 1957–1972 321 15,458 4 84 1,938 1
Colin Atkinson  England 1960–1967 163 3,772 190 12 153 7
Mervyn Kitchen  England 1960–1979 352 15,213 2 172 3,388 5
Fred Rumsey  England 1963–1968 153 766 520 15 9 30
Peter Robinson  England 1965–1977 180 4,887 291 63 964 8
Tony Clarkson  England 1966–1971 104 4,378 8 50 762 2
Graham Burgess  England 1966–1980 252 7,129 474 207 3,130 247
Peter Denning  England 1969–1984 269 11,559 1 280 6,792 0
Brian Rose  England 1969–1987 251 12,342 8 251 5,708 7
Allan Jones  England 1970–1975 118 442 291 113 101 164
Tom Cartwright  England 1970–1976 101 2,422 408 94 972 10
Derek Taylor  England 1970–1982 280 6,796 0 261 2,035 0
Brian Close  England 1971–1977 142 7,567 74 126 2,658 41
Hallam Moseley  West Indies 1971–1982 205 1,502 547 210 519 309
Dennis Breakwell  England 1973–1984 165 3,777 281 148 1,059 58
Ian Botham  England 1973–1986 172 8,686 489 230 5,049 300
Viv Richards  West Indies 1974–1986 191 14,698 96 218 7,349 93
Peter Roebuck  England 1974–1991 306 16,218 45 277 6,871 40
Phil Slocombe  England 1975–1983 135 5,539 3 78 829 0
Vic Marks  England 1975–1989 275 9,742 738 250 3,623 226
Colin Dredge  England 1976–1988 194 2,182 443 209 464 253
Trevor Gard  England 1976–1989 112 1,389 0 81 240 0
Joel Garner  West Indies 1977–1986 94 1,170 338 128 703 206
Jeremy Lloyds  England 1979–1984 100 4,036 133 62 592 3
Nigel Popplewell  England 1979–1985 118 4,594 78 116 2,022 43
Nigel Felton  England 1982–1988 108 4,987 0 62 1,269 0
Richard Harden  England 1985–1998 233 12,488 16 252 6,275 0
Neil Burns  England 1987–1993 150 5,207 0 154 1,678 0
Neil Mallender  England 1987–1994 118 1,461 329 136 500 148
Graham Rose  England 1987–2002 244 8,644 588 280 4,937 29
Chris Tavaré  England 1989–1993 102 6,365 0 109 3,465 0
Andy Hayhurst  England 1990–1996 122 6,634 60 121 2,678 94
Mark Lathwell  England 1990–2001 142 7,988 13 166 4,399 1
Andrew Caddick  England 1990–2009 191 3,139 875 197 556 254
Robert Turner  England 1991–2005 211 8,473 0 226 3,358 0
Keith Parsons  England 1992–2007 130 5,324 106 247 5,225 146
Marcus Trescothick  England 1993–2019 296 19,654 31 236 7,374 48
Piran Holloway  England 1994–2003 114 5,419 0 97 2,402 0
Peter Bowler  England 1995–2004 160 9,642 14 159 4,431 2
Mike Burns  England 1997–2005 134 7,008 68 179 4,325 58
Steffan Jones  England 1997–2008 84 1,443 224 138 478 197
Jamie Cox  Australia 1999–2004 91 6,688 4 110 3,598 4
Ian Blackwell  England 2000–2008 120 7,454 210 149 3,930 114
Peter Trego  England 2000–2019 200 8,775 349 176 4,666 144
Arul Suppiah  Malaysia 2002–2013 100 5,156 45 89 1,580 44
James Hildreth  England 2003–2022 277 17,237 6 222 6,096 5
Craig Kieswetter  England 2007–2015 105 5,062 2 79 2,815 1
Lewis Gregory*  England 2010–present 113 3,704 338 65 1,052 89
Craig Overton*  England 2012–present 113 3,158 398 46 560 72
Tom Abell*  England 2014–present 117 6,569 60 25 636 2
Statistics correct as of end of 2023 season.