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New balls after 160 overs then?!

@SomersetCCC #MetroBankOneDayCupFever

Your Somerset squad for our One Day Cup opener 👊 #MIDvSOM #WeAreSomerset

@AnnieChave The answer to me is quite easy …retain or increase the current schedule but reduce the quota of players playing days and bring more young talent into the squads

A real stab in the back for domestic cricket as we know it & the glorious long format game. Even the Blast is ignored in this vision… it’s the winners of The Hundred that would feature. Tell me please that cricket isn’t all about money. Tell me how this helps player overload?

Go out and buy a copy of the spring edition of Nightwatchman (no. 49) now. 136 pages of great articles, great photos and even a poem or two. The best read for those who think about, and care about, cricket.

There is now a short report at the @ACScricket website acscricket.com on the highly successful Members' Meeting held at the @unionjackclub in London on Saturday. Those attending were entertained by seven speakers on a variety of cricketing topics.

Anybody interested in cricket, and a great evening out, should buy tickets for Jack’s Ashes, at the Tabard theatre in Chiswick from 2 to 19 October. Starring award winning actor and writer Tim Marriott and featuring the voice of David Bumble Lloyd. tabard.org.uk/whats-on/jacks…

On this day in history: 23rd August 1895 Ted Tyler took 10-49 v Surrey. The best Somerset bowling at the County Ground     23rd August 2018: Jack Leach recorded his career-best figures of 8/85 as Somerset defeat Essex at the CACG by 45 runs.

124 years ago today a cricket match between France and England ended with England running out as winners. 12 years later an Olympic Gold medal was awarded - hence England are still Olympic champions…until the next Games. somersetcricketmuseum.co.uk/olympic-cricke…

FYI theguardian.com/sport/article/…

Just posted on the Somerset Cricket Museum website is the account, by the late Tony Stedall, of the 1900 Olympics where England won the cricket gold medal - enjoy, as we look forward to next Olympic Games later this month. somersetcricketmuseum.co.uk/olympic-cricke…

On this day in 1934, Don Bradman captained the Australians for the first time. Here he leads his team out against @leicsccc at a packed @ElectricitySCC.

The latest post on the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust blog looks at England's first captain of our women's Test team. A great lady kentcricketheritagetrust.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/bet…

Mordecai Sherwin was the last professional captain of @TrentBridge in the 19th C, there was not another until 1961 when John Clay was appointed. This portrait of Sherwin, who also played in goal for Notts County, hangs in the Trent Bridge Long Room. #SportAndArt

Pastels by A Chevallier Tayler are widely collected. This image of AO ‘Jonah’ Jones is in the Heritage Store @TrentBridge. Jones led Notts to the Championship in 1907 and still holds the record – at 296 – for the highest score at Trent Bridge by a Notts batter. #SportandArtT

We are very grateful to Mr John Wall for the loan of this autographed miniature bat from the 1964-65 tour to South Africa. Of particular interest to Somerset fans are signatures of Jim Parkes and Tom Cartwright both of whom played for us in the latter parts of their careers

Not many cricketers are remembered in stained glass but Rev Philip Williams, who played 20 First-Class games (two for @TrentBridge) in the 1840s, has this splendid memorial in his church St Mary the Virgin at Rewe, Devon. #SportandArt

John Johnson’s portrait hangs over the door to the Long Room @TrentBridge but not for his on-field exploits (just a few games) but as a long-served Hon Sec, club Vice-President and the guiding hand in the building of the ground’s first Pavilion. #SportandArt.

Some useful Sport and Art resources for Museums here - do have a look sportingheritage.org.uk/content/events…

On 1 Feb 1998 England beat New Zealand to win the Under-19 World Cup. Paul Franks, now Notts CCC assistant head coach, made 16 and took 1-49; future @TrentBridge team-mates Graeme Swann and Richard Logan were also in the England team.