 A week later, he was among the Somerset batsmen who hit Hedley Verity of Yorkshire and England for 89 runs from nine overs, contributing two sixes in an innings of 22 that was surpassed by Hazell, who hit Verity for four sixes in a single over.But at the end of the season, he left the Somerset staff and he never played first-class cricket again.David Foot, the historian of Somerset cricket, wrote of Hunt that he had "a healthy cynicism about the life of an expendable professional cricketer" and that he "preferred to stick to his weekend matches for his village team, Lodway".