season captained taken captain previous seasons played class cricket matches somerset win season came match lost losses away gloucestershire surrey number county heaviest defeats somerset unable field team fourth match coupled poor results lack fixtures resulted club stripped class status end season emergency meeting held new club secretary appointed wealthy sought retained club somerset played second class cricket seasons class game season histories season includes provides prose foot mentions loss class cricket background somerset granted class status advance season maiden season level described disastrous publication qualified statement mild optimism county failed live optimism wins performances poor twice somerset opponents scored runs innings lancashire fielded players captained left club end season played cricket london squad class matches somerset fielded different players appeared matches captain annual suggested professionals indigenous area somerset feared advance temporary prediction particularly accurate professional somerset players year appeared season fewer career class appearances following players appearance somerset class cricket age given start somerset match season july key denotes player appeared wicket keeper somerset denotes number appearances player somerset denotes reference player details county cricket somerset suffered badly lack strong bowling attack playing matches total wickets offer somerset took slow left arm orthodox bowler county leading wicket claiming wickets appearances average bowling average far finished season country leading wicket wickets matches unfortunately somerset able play county matches best bowling average managed took seven wickets took highest total wickets managed claim appearances batting strongest aspect somerset play club lacked strength depth county teams playing second season class cricket finished highest batting average county respectable average exceeded number batsmen season somerset batsman passed runs innings advanced reach century season somerset match commenced july months faced sussex surrey travelled hampshire open class county cricket season england somerset began season home hampshire losing toss asked field somerset restricted visitors runs innings took career best wickets innings conceding runs ball overs reply somerset fell short opponents bowled scoring runs collected wickets second innings granting career wicket winter took somerset bowled hampshire leaving needing win somerset batsmen reached runs unbeaten accompanied number seven helped somerset achieve wicket victory match somerset travelled marsh faced gloucestershire match fell winter bowl majority overs absence fellow opener winter claimed wickets conceded runs wickets tried different effort wickets gloucestershire eventually bowled overs reply somerset conceded wickets runs brief revival took seven wickets fell addition runs somerset closed trailing opponents overs runs captain scored somerset reaching highest total season batsmen reached double figures county professional somerset players fell ducks asked gloucestershire follow somerset batted poorly second effort winter total highest score total meant lost match innings runs heaviest defeat class cricket point county days rest recover loss facing surrey oval unavailable somerset losing toss somerset spent day field surrey accumulated runs day reached somerset claimed tenth wicket close innings stage remained having scored highest score class cricket somerset opening winter conceded excess runs second match row utilised bowler gloucestershire search wickets claimed wickets recording career best asked bowl overs finished maiden overs overs bowled match accounted quarter bowling class cricket reply surrey total somerset bowled innings robinson reached double figures scoring respectively recorded absent hurt somerset innings second innings somerset improved reaching highest batting total season scored county century season scoring shared partnership fourth wicket reached highest score season totalling somerset loss heavier suffered week earlier losing innings runs march losses remain heaviest experienced county class cricket somerset week match travelled southampton face hampshire possibly losses previous matches somerset field men fixture situation described time season somerset batted scored contemporary match report praised batting winter scored respectively innings capital performance innings taking wickets cost runs according report despite efforts hampshire exceeded somerset total opening run lead innings winter scored somerset second innings reaching highest total class cricket opening batting scores hall helped somerset hampshire reached total required victory day match remaining winning wickets surrey visited days later counties second meeting season repeat previous fixtures surrey won toss chose bat played earlier clash opened bowling somerset alongside presumably weakness rest county attack bowled overs repeat successes achieved hampshire somerset innings claimed wicket surrey bowled reply occupied batsmen end came went scoring exactly half somerset reached double figures somerset batsmen dismissed ducks requested follow somerset fared second innings reached batsman passed somerset runs short forcing surrey bat somerset hosts final match season played single day surrey match scheduled day match concluded days home won toss elected bat gloucestershire opened bowling pair bowled unchanged overs claimed wickets apiece somerset dismissed reached double figures scoring response gloucestershire totalled claimed wickets tail somerset batted second innings scoring half centuries respectively reached wickets falling collected match gloucestershire achieved victory loss wicket second innings somerset fifth successive loss season record match log batting averages bowling averages aftermath somerset stripped class status reasons organised played class fixtures season performances expected class county succeeded fielding players matches emergency meeting held new club secretary appointed rules altered wealthy sought despite widespread changes retained club somerset played second class cricket seasons finishing second class county champions class game
Somerset County Cricket Club in 1885