Somerset County Cricket Club played in Division Two of both the County Championship and the Sunday League in 2005. Somerset started at 10–1 to finish Division Two County Champions. Batting seems strong with Smith, Jayasuriya, Blackwell and Trescothick. But the same cannot be said of the bowling, which will find it difficult to dismiss teams twice on the flat Taunton pitch.
Robert James Kirtley is a former English Test cricketer. He is a right arm fast medium bowler and a right hand batsman. After prep school at St. Andrews School, Eastbourne, he was educated at Clifton College.
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Matthew James Wood is a retired English cricketer, who played for Somerset and Nottinghamshire as a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm off-break bowler.
The West Indies cricket team toured Australia in October and November 2005 as part of the 2005–06 Australian cricket season. The West Indian cricket team will be looking to prove that they can perform against the number one rated side in the world. Australia on the other hand will be looking to build on their World XI performance and prove their Ashes critics wrong - and after winning the first two Tests by convincing margins, the Australians secured the series win to retain the Frank Worrell Trophy for the sixth time running. The West Indies were looking to avoid the series whitewash for the second consecutive time, and posted their highest total of the series in the first innings of the third Test, with Brian Lara making 226 to pass Allan Border as the all-time highest scorer in Test cricket.
James Charles Hildreth is a former English professional cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club. He attended Millfield School, Somerset. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. Hildreth represented England at all youth levels including the 2003–04 Under-19 World cup held in Bangladesh. He made his first-class debut in 2003 and became a regular member of the side from the start of the 2004 season. The James Hildreth Stand was opened by him at Somerset County Cricket Ground on 21 September 2022.
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Stephen Norman John O'Keefe is an Australian cricketer who has played for the Australian national team in Test matches and Twenty20 Internationals, and a commentator for SEN and Nine. O'Keefe was formerly the captain of the New South Wales Sheffield Shield team.
David Martin Smith is a former English cricketer. Smith was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He is now a teacher at Hitchin Boys' School. He was born at Keresley, Warwickshire.
Matthew James Friedlander is a former South African cricketer. Friedlander is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Durban, Natal.
Anthony Mervyn Smith is a former English cricketer. Smith was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Castle Combe, Wiltshire.
Gareth Smith is a former English cricketer. Smith was a right handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born at Jarrow, County Durham.
Peter Bruce Smith is an English former cricketer and school headmaster.
Matthew Richard White is a former English cricketer. White was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast. Born in Bedford and educated at Bedford Modern School, he is the son of Richard White, who also played cricket for Bedfordshire.
Matthew Robert Evans is a former English cricketer. Evans was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Gravesend, Kent.
Jack Smith was an English cricketer. Smith was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Stotfold, Bedfordshire.
Jacob Timothy Ball is an English cricketer. Ball is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium pace. He was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England and educated at the Meden School in Market Warsop. On 14 July 2016 he made his Test debut for England against Pakistan. His uncle, Bruce French, also played Test cricket for England and was chosen to present Ball with his England cap before his Test debut in July 2016.
The South African cricket team toured Australia from 2 November to 3 December 2012. The tour consisted of three Test matches. The test series was preceded by one first class match between the South Africans and the Australian A squad. Michael Clarke became the first man to score four double-centuries in a calendar year, when he passed the 200-run mark in the first innings of the second Test in Adelaide. It was the last series played by former Australian captain Ricky Ponting, who retired after the third Test.
Matthew William Short is an Australian cricketer. He represents Victoria at state level and plays for the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League. He previously played for the Melbourne Renegades.
Travis Jeffrey Dean is an Australian cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Victoria.
