Somerset County Cricket Club was formed in 1875 and became a first-class county in 1882. [1] They played their first Twenty20 match in the 2003 Twenty20 Cup against Warwickshire. [2] [3] Somerset have reached the domestic Twenty20 competition final on six occasions: the club has won the 2005 Twenty20 Cup and 2023 T20 Blast, [4] and were runners-up in three consecutive seasons: 2009, 2010 and 2011. [5] Their performances in the competition have resulted in their qualification for the 2009 and 2011 Champions League Twenty20 competitions, and an invitation to participate in the 2010–11 Caribbean Twenty20. [3] In total, 109 players have appeared in Twenty20 cricket for Somerset, of whom James Hildreth has played the most matches: 206 since his debut in 2004. [6]
Hildreth is Somerset's leading run-scorer in Twenty20 cricket, aggregating 3,906 runs. [7] He is also one of only nine batsmen to have scored a century for Somerset in the format, along with Tom Abell, Babar Azam, Tom Banton, Chris Gayle, Johann Myburgh, Graeme Smith, Marcus Trescothick and Cameron White. [8] Gayle's score of 151 not out, scored in 2015 against Kent is the highest score by a Somerset batsman, [8] and Gayle also has the county's best batting average: 84.16. [9] Among the bowlers, Max Waller has taken more wickets than any other bowler, claiming 139, two more than Alfonso Thomas. [10] The best bowling average is Jack Leach's 12.00. [11] Arul Suppiah has the best bowling figures in an innings: he claimed six wickets against Glamorgan in a 2011 match, while only conceding five runs. [12] Suppiah's figures in that match were the best by any bowler in Twenty20 cricket at the time. [13] Tom Banton and Craig Kieswetter have taken the most catches as wicket-keeper for Somerset, with 40, [14] and Kieswetter has made the highest number of stumpings: 14. [15] Max Waller has claimed the highest number of catches among fielders, taking 86. [16]
Players are initially listed in order of appearance; where players made their debut in the same match, they are initially listed by batting order.
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All statistics correct as of 15 July 2023. |
No. | Name | Nationality | First | Last | Mat | Runs | HS | Avg | Balls | Wkt | BBI | Ave | Ca | St | Ref(s) |
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1 | Jamie Cox | Australia | 2003 | 2004 | 7 | 139 | 53 | 23.16 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | [17] |
2 | Carl Gazzard † | England | 2003 | 2007 | 27 | 221 | 39 | 17.00 | 0 | – | – | – | 14 | 6 | [18] |
3 | Ian Blackwell | England | 2003 | 2008 | 30 | 498 | 82 | 20.75 | 577 | 23 | 4/26 | 30.17 | 10 | 0 | [19] [20] |
4 | Keith Dutch | England | 2003 | 2004 | 10 | 291 | 70 | 32.33 | 132 | 5 | 2/14 | 32.80 | 3 | 0 | [21] [22] |
5 | Mike Burns † | England | 2003 | 2004 | 9 | 108 | 36 | 15.42 | 36 | 2 | 1/15 | 27.50 | 3 | 0 | [23] [24] |
6 | Wes Durston | England | 2003 | 2009 | 38 | 386 | 57 | 16.78 | 214 | 17 | 3/25 | 19.88 | 14 | 0 | [25] [26] |
7 | Keith Parsons | England | 2003 | 2007 | 31 | 464 | 57* | 20.17 | 338 | 18 | 3/12 | 25.94 | 9 | 0 | [27] [28] |
8 | Aaron Laraman | England | 2003 | 2004 | 7 | 35 | 28* | 8.75 | 123 | 9 | 4/15 | 16.77 | 0 | 0 | [29] [30] |
9 | Robert Turner † | England | 2003 | 2005 | 6 | 25 | 11 | 5.00 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | [31] |
10 | Steffan Jones | England | 2003 | 2008 | 12 | 47 | 24* | 15.66 | 242 | 9 | 3/27 | 42.00 | 2 | 0 | [32] [33] |
11 | Simon Francis | England | 2003 | 2006 | 20 | 31 | 9* | 6.20 | 360 | 10 | 2/22 | 59.80 | 4 | 0 | [34] [35] |
12 | Gareth Andrew | England | 2003 | 2007 | 30 | 71 | 12* | 7.10 | 535 | 28 | 4/22 | 27.85 | 9 | 0 | [36] [37] |
13 | James Bryant | South Africa | 2003 | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | [38] |
14 | Neil Edwards | England | 2003 | 2003 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | [39] |
15 | James Hildreth | England | 2004 | 2022 | 206 | 3,906 | 107* | 24.56 | 169 | 10 | 3/24 | 24.70 | 73 | 0 | [40] [41] |
16 | John Francis | England | 2004 | 2007 | 14 | 271 | 49 | 27.10 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | [42] |
17 | Neil Hancock | Australia | 2004 | 2004 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4.50 | 12 | 1 | 1/9 | 25.00 | 0 | 0 | [43] [44] |
18 | Thos Hunt | Australia | 2004 | 2004 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3.00 | 24 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | [45] [46] |
19 | Matthew Wood | England | 2004 | 2007 | 29 | 859 | 94 | 29.62 | 0 | – | – | – | 5 | 0 | [47] |
20 | Marcus Trescothick † | England | 2004 | 2015 | 86 | 2,197 | 108* | 27.81 | 0 | – | – | – | 27 | 0 | [48] |
21 | Ricky Ponting | Australia | 2004 | 2004 | 1 | 20 | 20 | 20.00 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | [49] |
22 | Graeme Smith | South Africa | 2005 | 2005 | 11 | 380 | 105 | 38.00 | 12 | 0 | – | – | 18 | 0 | [50] [51] |
23 | Michael Parsons | England | 2005 | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 24 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | [52] [53] |
24 | Arul Suppiah | Malaysia | 2005 | 2012 | 82 | 473 | 32* | 13.13 | 647 | 41 | 6/5 | 19.14 | 33 | 0 | [54] [55] |
25 | Andy Caddick | England | 2005 | 2007 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 306 | 15 | 2/12 | 31.20 | 1 | 0 | [56] [57] |
26 | Charl Langeveldt | South Africa | 2005 | 2005 | 3 | 0 | 0* | – | 60 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | [58] [59] |
27 | Richard Johnson | England | 2005 | 2006 | 9 | 24 | 10 | 6.00 | 198 | 14 | 3/21 | 19.92 | 1 | 0 | [60] [61] |
28 | Robert Woodman | England | 2005 | 2005 | 2 | 1 | 1* | – | 42 | 2 | 2/37 | 31.50 | 0 | 0 | [62] [63] |
29 | Sam Spurway † | England | 2005 | 2005 | 1 | 15 | 15* | – | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | [64] |
30 | Justin Langer | Australia | 2006 | 2009 | 40 | 1,014 | 97 | 28.97 | 0 | – | – | – | 8 | 0 | [65] |
31 | Cameron White | Australia | 2006 | 2007 | 16 | 593 | 141* | 45.61 | 160 | 8 | 3/16 | 28.12 | 3 | 0 | [66] [67] |
32 | Charl Willoughby | South Africa | 2006 | 2011 | 34 | 10 | 4 | 3.33 | 744 | 39 | 4/29 | 25.20 | 4 | 0 | [68] [69] |
33 | Peter Trego | England | 2006 | 2019 | 164 | 3,273 | 94* | 24.42 | 1,187 | 50 | 2/16 | 32.16 | 47 | 0 | [70] [71] |
34 | Craig Kieswetter † | England | 2007 | 2014 | 77 | 2,202 | 89* | 34.95 | 0 | – | – | – | 45 | 14 | [72] |
35 | Mark Turner | England | 2007 | 2010 | 32 | 25 | 11* | 4.16 | 552 | 30 | 3/25 | 27.06 | 6 | 0 | [73] [74] |
36 | Omari Banks | West Indies | 2008 | 2009 | 7 | 106 | 50* | 35.33 | 120 | 5 | 1/14 | 32.00 | 1 | 0 | [75] [76] |
37 | Alfonso Thomas | South Africa | 2008 | 2015 | 104 | 189 | 30* | 14.53 | 2,162 | 137 | 4/27 | 20.17 | 33 | 0 | [77] [78] |
38 | Ben Phillips | England | 2008 | 2010 | 34 | 101 | 26 | 6.73 | 678 | 29 | 3/31 | 31.65 | 9 | 0 | [79] [80] |
39 | Zander de Bruyn | South Africa | 2008 | 2010 | 39 | 798 | 95* | 34.69 | 264 | 14 | 2/2 | 28.00 | 12 | 0 | [81] [82] |
40 | Max Waller | England | 2009 | 2022 | 144 | 106 | 17 | 7.06 | 2,774 | 139 | 4/16 | 24.44 | 86 | 0 | [83] [84] |
41 | Jos Buttler † | England | 2009 | 2013 | 65 | 1,012 | 72* | 25.30 | 0 | – | – | – | 45 | 10 | [85] |
42 | Nick Compton | England | 2010 | 2014 | 43 | 706 | 74 | 22.77 | 0 | – | – | – | 12 | 0 | [86] |
43 | Murali Kartik | India | 2010 | 2011 | 40 | 81 | 25* | 16.20 | 840 | 34 | 3/18 | 26.79 | 9 | 0 | [87] [88] |
44 | Kieron Pollard | West Indies | 2010 | 2011 | 28 | 588 | 89* | 34.58 | 575 | 41 | 4/15 | 18.56 | 17 | 0 | [89] [90] |
45 | Craig Meschede | Germany | 2011 | 2014 | 39 | 328 | 53 | 15.61 | 385 | 21 | 3/9 | 26.52 | 7 | 0 | [91] [92] |
46 | Calum Haggett | England | 2011 | 2011 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1.50 | 30 | 1 | 1/15 | 32.00 | 0 | 0 | [93] [94] |
47 | Gemaal Hussain | England | 2011 | 2011 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2.33 | 126 | 9 | 3/40 | 16.55 | 1 | 0 | [95] [96] |
48 | Steve Kirby | England | 2011 | 2013 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 5.00 | 713 | 34 | 3/26 | 25.73 | 4 | 0 | [97] [98] |
49 | George Dockrell | Ireland | 2011 | 2014 | 22 | 2 | 1* | 2.00 | 398 | 19 | 2/15 | 27.00 | 14 | 0 | [99] [100] |
50 | Roelof van der Merwe | Netherlands [lower-alpha 1] | 2011 | 2023 | 109 | 1,185 | 89* | 26.33 | 2,167 | 94 | 5/32 | 29.57 | 58 | 0 | [101] [102] |
51 | Lewis Gregory | England | 2011 | 2023 | 129 | 1,468 | 62 | 20.38 | 2,120 | 131 | 5/24 | 23.86 | 57 | 0 | [103] [104] |
52 | Chris Jones | England | 2011 | 2014 | 13 | 217 | 53* | 19.72 | 0 | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | [105] |
53 | Steve Snell † | England | 2011 | 2012 | 5 | 48 | 34* | 24.00 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | [106] |
54 | Adam Dibble | England | 2011 | 2011 | 2 | – | – | – | 48 | 2 | 1/20 | 22.00 | 0 | 0 | [107] [108] |
55 | Richard Levi | South Africa | 2012 | 2012 | 7 | 179 | 69 | 25.57 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | [109] |
56 | Albie Morkel | South Africa | 2012 | 2012 | 5 | 81 | 38 | 20.25 | 71 | 5 | 3/30 | 17.80 | 1 | 0 | [110] [111] |
57 | Kevin O'Brien | Ireland | 2012 | 2012 | 6 | 52 | 22 | 17.33 | 48 | 1 | 1/15 | 63.00 | 4 | 0 | [112] [113] |
58 | Alviro Petersen | South Africa | 2013 | 2014 | 13 | 316 | 64* | 35.11 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | [114] |
59 | Yasir Arafat | Pakistan | 2013 | 2016 | 16 | 36 | 12* | 36.00 | 360 | 23 | 4/5 | 21.60 | 0 | 0 | [115] [116] |
60 | Dirk Nannes | Australia | 2014 | 2014 | 14 | 4 | 4* | – | 279 | 24 | 5/31 | 15.54 | 2 | 0 | [117] [118] |
61 | Craig Overton | England | 2014 | 2023 | 80 | 396 | 35* | 14.66 | 1,530 | 83 | 4/25 | 26.44 | 56 | 0 | [119] [120] |
62 | Johann Myburgh | South Africa | 2014 | 2018 | 47 | 1,087 | 103* | 28.60 | 42 | 1 | 1/5 | 49.00 | 10 | 0 | [121] [122] |
63 | James Burke | England | 2014 | 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4.00 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | [123] |
64 | Tim Groenewald | South Africa | 2014 | 2019 | 34 | 70 | 27* | 6.36 | 614 | 28 | 3/27 | 31.42 | 6 | 0 | [124] [125] |
65 | Colin Ingram | South Africa | 2014 | 2014 | 4 | 95 | 37* | 31.66 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | [126] |
66 | Jim Allenby | Australia | 2015 | 2017 | 38 | 779 | 91 | 23.60 | 276 | 8 | 3/10 | 48.12 | 9 | 0 | [127] [128] |
67 | Tom Cooper | Netherlands | 2015 | 2015 | 12 | 242 | 84* | 26.88 | 0 | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | [129] |
68 | Sohail Tanvir | Pakistan | 2015 | 2015 | 6 | 17 | 13 | 4.25 | 132 | 7 | 2/38 | 25.42 | 0 | 0 | [130] [131] |
69 | Abdur Rehman | Pakistan | 2015 | 2015 | 6 | 57 | 30* | 28.50 | 114 | 2 | 1/18 | 76.50 | 2 | 0 | [132] [133] |
70 | Jamie Overton | England | 2015 | 2020 | 42 | 142 | 31 | 10.92 | 817 | 45 | 5/47 | 30.04 | 17 | 0 | [134] [135] |
71 | Chris Gayle | West Indies | 2015 | 2016 | 8 | 505 | 151* | 84.16 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | [136] |
72 | Michael Bates † | England | 2015 | 2015 | 2 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | [137] |
73 | Luke Ronchi † | New Zealand | 2015 | 2015 | 5 | 89 | 49 | 22.25 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | [138] |
74 | Adam Hose | England | 2015 | 2017 | 7 | 117 | 59 | 19.50 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | [139] |
75 | Michael Leask | Scotland | 2016 | 2017 | 9 | 52 | 13 | 8.66 | 18 | 1 | 1/11 | 23.00 | 2 | 0 | [140] [141] |
76 | Ryan Davies † | England | 2016 | 2016 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2.33 | 0 | – | – | – | 4 | 3 | [142] |
77 | Mahela Jayawardene | Sri Lanka | 2016 | 2016 | 10 | 239 | 51 | 26.55 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | [143] |
78 | Alex Barrow † | England | 2016 | 2016 | 1 | 17 | 17* | – | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | [144] |
79 | Josh Davey | Scotland | 2016 | 2023 | 42 | 158 | 23* | 39.50 | 797 | 65 | 4/34 | 18.95 | 13 | 0 | [145] [146] |
80 | Tim Rouse | England | 2016 | 2016 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 9.00 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | [147] |
81 | Paul van Meekeren | Netherlands | 2016 | 2017 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1.00 | 116 | 3 | 1/23 | 60.33 | 3 | 0 | [148] [149] |
82 | Tom Abell | England | 2016 | 2023 | 80 | 1,893 | 101* | 33.21 | 20 | 0 | – | – | 55 | 0 | [150] [151] |
83 | Ben Green | England | 2016 | 2023 | 52 | 505 | 43* | 21.04 | 825 | 62 | 5/29 | 20.11 | 20 | 0 | [152] [153] |
84 | Dominic Bess | England | 2016 | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 24 | 1 | 1/31 | 31.00 | 0 | 0 | [154] [155] |
85 | Ollie Sale | England | 2016 | 2020 | 10 | 20 | 14* | 10.00 | 196 | 13 | 3/32 | 26.23 | 3 | 0 | [156] [157] |
86 | Steven Davies † | England | 2017 | 2021 | 37 | 633 | 62 | 17.58 | 0 | – | – | – | 14 | 5 | [158] |
87 | Corey Anderson | United States [lower-alpha 2] | 2017 | 2018 | 20 | 656 | 81 | 46.85 | 30 | 1 | 1/11 | 46.00 | 3 | 0 | [159] [160] |
88 | Tom Banton † | England | 2017 | 2023 | 60 | 1,695 | 107* | 30.26 | 0 | – | – | – | 40 | 6 | [161] |
89 | Dean Elgar | South Africa | 2017 | 2017 | 2 | 49 | 25 | 24.50 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | [162] |
90 | Jerome Taylor | West Indies | 2018 | 2019 | 24 | 39 | 19* | 39.00 | 509 | 36 | 5/15 | 21.69 | 4 | 0 | [163] [164] |
91 | Babar Azam | Pakistan | 2019 | 2020 | 20 | 796 | 114* | 46.82 | 0 | – | – | – | 11 | 0 | [165] |
92 | Tom Lammonby | England | 2019 | 2023 | 53 | 736 | 90 | 21.02 | 288 | 14 | 2/32 | 31.42 | 28 | 0 | [166] [167] |
93 | Eddie Byrom | Zimbabwe | 2019 | 2021 | 18 | 269 | 54* | 17.93 | 0 | – | – | – | 4 | 0 | [168] |
94 | George Bartlett | England | 2020 | 2022 | 8 | 148 | 82* | 21.14 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | [169] |
95 | Will Smeed | England | 2020 | 2023 | 52 | 1,409 | 98 | 28.75 | 0 | – | – | – | 23 | 0 | [170] |
96 | Lewis Goldsworthy | England | 2020 | 2022 | 25 | 257 | 48 | 19.76 | 372 | 23 | 3/14 | 21.47 | 6 | 0 | [171] [172] |
97 | Marchant de Lange | South Africa | 2021 | 2022 | 20 | 63 | 20 | 10.50 | 408 | 26 | 4/9 | 22.50 | 6 | 0 | [173] [174] |
98 | Jack Brooks | England | 2021 | 2023 | 18 | 18 | 10* | 9.00 | 361 | 19 | 3/35 | 26.15 | 3 | 0 | [175] [176] |
99 | Jack Leach | England | 2021 | 2021 | 2 | – | – | – | 48 | 5 | 3/28 | 12.00 | 1 | 0 | [177] [178] |
100 | Devon Conway † | New Zealand | 2021 | 2021 | 8 | 309 | 81* | 61.80 | 0 | – | – | – | 5 | 0 | [179] |
101 | Rilee Rossouw | South Africa | 2022 | 2022 | 16 | 623 | 93 | 47.92 | 0 | – | – | – | 11 | 0 | [180] |
102 | James Rew | England | 2022 | 2022 | 1 | 47 | 47 | 47.00 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | [181] |
103 | Kasey Aldridge | England | 2022 | 2023 | 5 | 43 | 32* | – | 18 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | [182] [183] |
104 | Ned Leonard | England | 2022 | 2022 | 1 | – | – | – | 12 | 1 | 1/8 | 8.00 | 0 | 0 | [184] [185] |
105 | Peter Siddle | Australia | 2022 | 2023 | 18 | 22 | 11* | 7.33 | 353 | 24 | 3/10 | 21.16 | 1 | 0 | [186] [187] |
106 | Tom Kohler-Cadmore † | England | 2023 | 2023 | 17 | 489 | 72 | 34.92 | 0 | – | – | – | 13 | 0 | [188] |
107 | Matt Henry | New Zealand | 2023 | 2023 | 14 | 44 | 14* | 14.66 | 314 | 31 | 4/24 | 13.25 | 11 | 0 | [189] [190] |
108 | Sean Dickson | South Africa | 2023 | 2023 | 11 | 263 | 53 | 37.57 | 0 | – | – | – | 9 | 0 | [191] |
109 | Shoaib Bashir | England | 2023 | 2023 | 5 | – | – | – | 66 | 4 | 3/26 | 23.50 | 1 | 0 | [192] [193] |
110 | Ish Sodhi | New Zealand | 2023 | 2023 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2.00 | 120 | 8 | 3/22 | 17.37 | 1 | 0 | [194] [195] |
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