Delighted to say that disabled visitors who are unable to go up stairs can now view those exhibits using our virtual tour system, which was installed within the museum today (8/11/2023).
Thank you 360 South West Ltd. for all your help on this project.
Very pleased to welcome so many families and friends from Rexel South West to the Somerset Cricket Museum, during their recent Friends and Family day at the Coopers Associates County Ground. (Video courtesy of Rexel South West)
A busy morning in the Somerset Cricket Museum (31/10/2023). Today we welcomed Mustafa Shaikh, from the Somerset Cricket Foundation and his guest, Susann Savidge from the Somerset African Caribbean Network (SACN).
Susann was investigating how greater networking links can be made within Somerset. The Museum visit was followed by a walk around the ground looking at the West Indian players featured in the Hall of Fame and the two gates dedicated to Viv and Joel.
Mustafa and Susann are seen holding Viv’s autographed bat and one autographed by the West Indian test team
Over the last six months we have been pleased to welcome the Walkers and Talkers to the Museum along with their special guests – this video records the visit of the group in July 2023 along with their guest speaker Vic Marks, who has donated three of his international blazers to the Museum (seen in this video).
Delighted to welcome both the Vitality Blast Cup and the members of the Hambledon Cricket Club on their North Devon tour to the Museum this morning (July 31st 2023).
On 2nd July 2023 Somerset CCC recorded their 12th win in the T20 Group stages – an all time record in T20 Blast History – full article to follow.
On behalf of David Wood, Curator at the Somerset Cricket Museum
We regret to announce the death of Barry Clifton, who helped run the museum for some ten years until 2017 before declining health forced him to step down. He took a special interest in our book sales but turned his hand to whatever needed doing.
Born in St Albans and working in London, he moved to central Taunton precisely because he could be near a county cricket ground.
His funeral will take place at Taunton Crematorium on Friday 30th June at 1.20pm. All who knew him would be welcome.
His sister has generously suggested that any financial gifts that might be offered should be given to Somerset Cricket Museum. It is what he would have wanted.
Delighted to take delivery of our new Museum Guide Books, pictured below is our Curator David Wood, receiving the first copies from Imogen Parker of the Wellington based @CarlyPressLtd .
The twenty four page Guide Book was compiled and written by Museum Volunteer, Paul Smith, with photos by Geoff Vian and Alain Lockyer. We are also very grateful to Annie Chave and her team at County Cricket Matters for their work in proof reading the text. The booklet was printed at the Wellington based Carly Press.
The books will be on sale in the Museum during the next CC match v Notts, do come & see us.
We were very pleased to welcome the (triumphant) Somerset Women’s Cricket Team to the Somerset Cricket Museum on Sunday 14th May during a break in play in the T20 Regional Finals Day.
Pictured below are the Somerset team looking at some of the exhibits and Sophie Luff presenting the 2019 T20 Division 2 Champions Trophy to Volunteer Patrick Draycott, to be added to the collection of Women’s Cricket Memorabilia. (Sophie was overall top scorer in that competition with 316 runs).
Do come and have a look at the extensive Women’s Cricket collection next time you visit the Ground for the next County Championship match.
The Somerset Women’s team, sporting the new kit, were victorious in the regional T20 final’s competition. (A competition much curtailed by rain this year)
A comfortable win over Devon in the semi-final the morning followed by an even more comfortable win over Wales at the County Ground under floodlights in the evening. A better fielding display from Wales may have made the job tougher. Nevertheless, two emphatic wins.
Emily Edgecombe has, this season, taken over the reins from Sophie Luff, as captain of the Somerset Women’s team.
With her exploits during Finals Day, Natasha Wraith has passed the career 500 runs mark, for Somerset Women.
Excellent scores of 45 (from 28 balls) in the SF, and 39 (from 22 balls) in the Final, set Somerset Women on their way to victory.
Emily Edgecombe also began her captaincy spell with two fine bowling performances with 2 wickets in the SF, and a 4-fer in the final.
Today, 22/4/2023, just over a year since the new website went live we have reached 25,000 page views with visitors from over 60 countries – remarkable for a small Museum!
The Trustees and Curator of the Somerset Cricket Museum were pleased to welcome match day sponsors Clarke Willmott to the museum yesterday morning (20/4/2023)
So pleased to welcome the two groups of Walkers and Talkers to the Museum this morning – on their way around the CACG.
We are pleased to say, after a Board Meeting and subsequent discussion, that James Hildreth has agreed to become a Somerset Cricket Museum Trustee.
21st March 2023 – What a busy day in the Museum! A Somerset County Cricket Club photoshoot launching the new 2023 County Championship shirt with Tom Abell, Craig Overton and James Rew and James Hildreth dropping in to donate a bat to the Museum. The silver cup that James is holding is the U17 player of the year awarded to James in 1991 (and now displayed in the Museum).
Over the the next few weeks and months we shall be hosting visits from the Walking Cricket groups from around the County and (on a monthly basis) the Walkers and Talkers Groups.
For more details on the Walking Cricket see
And for the Walking and Talking Groups click here.
There will be opportunities to visit the Museum with both groups.
Highlights of the historic win on July 9th 2022 can be found here
Photographs will be added to the Photo Gallery in due course
Somerset amassed the highest ever total in English domestic men’s T20 cricket of 265/5 beating their previous best of 250/3 v Gloucestershire in 2006 and exceeded the previous T20 record score in England, 261 for two by the Birmingham Bears against Nottinghamshire in June 2022, with Ben Green striking two sixes in the final over.
The winning margin of 191runs is also the highest in T20 cricket in this country.
Rilee Rossouw became Somerset’s most prolific scorer in a T20 season with 600 at an average of 50, with a strike rate of 197.36.
Derbyshire’s spin bowler McKiernan was hit for 82 in his four overs, again, the most expensive figures in men’s T20 cricket history, including 36 off one over (5x6s, 1×4 and 1 no ball (2)).
Also the Derbyshire innings (68 balls) was the third lowest ’all out’ innings in Blast history
Somerset will play Hampshire at Finals Day for the 5th time in Somerset’s last 6 Finals Day appearances, which is by far the most common match-up on Finals Day – no other pair of counties have even met three times
Following on from an earlier email contact related to the use of audio for the articles published on the museum website, for people with visual impairments, Discussions have taken place with a local Talking Newspapers Group, who will record the articles and make them available to both their own listeners and to ourselves. We will keep you posted regarding the progress we make.
To the lady (PH) who kindly emailed us regarding the use of Audio. We are looking at this and hope to be able to provide this facility in the near future. Unfortunately you email box is full so i cannot reply formally.
Stragglers Coffee House to re-open on Wednesdays from March 23rd
Following a presentation and demonstration of the refreshed website, the Museum Trustees have given their approval to move to the pre-production stage of the project.
It is planned to move the new website into a live environment before the start of the season.
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