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Recent additions – Three England Touring Blazers from Vic Marks

We are very grateful to former England and Somerset bowler and cricket commentator Vic Marks, for donating three of his England Touring Blazers to the Museum during the monthly Walkers and Talkers Group event, today July 4th 2023.

Vic also spoke for two or three minutes on his memories of each tour.

Women’s U15 Cricket Memorabilia

We were very pleased to welcome former Somerset player and now Coach at Bath Women’s Cricket Club, Jan Godman to the Museum earlier this month (January 2023). Jan has very kindly donated some U15 Age Group memorabilia to the Museum. (Pictured with Jan, is Museum Volunteer, Patrick Draycott).

Amongst the items that Jan has donated were a 2002 team sheet and photo of the Somerset U15 team, including an ‘U12’ Anya Shrubsole and the Cup won by the West of England Women’s team in 1998 – the competition having, of course, now been superseded so that we now hold the cup in perpetuity.

The following additional notes were received from Mr Mark Gladman.

“The picture and scorecard referenced was for the under 15 team. It was taken at the match against Kent. I was at the match, and my daughter played. It was the county championship semi-final, played at King Edwards School in Bath. Somerset were without their best player, Steph Davies. I recall that she had an England training commitment. Somerset lost.

Whist Anya was identified as under 12, she was probably 10. My daughter was the next youngest, and was 11. 

This was in the first year of the Somerset Girls teams. The U17s started the following season.

The Girls U15 2002 County Championship season results were as follows;

Vs Isle of Wight @ Kingswood School, Bath: Somerset 156/3, IOW 33/10

Vs Devon @ Shobrooke Park, Devon: Devon 50/10, Somerset 51/7

Vs Hampshire @ Brownsword Ground, Bath: Hants 99/8, Somerset 100/6

Vs Essex @ The Peter May Sports Centre, Essex: Somerset 121/8, Essex 76/10

Vs Kent (semi-final) @ King Edwards School, Bath: Somerset 82/7, Kent 83/3

(Games were 30 overs)

Jan’s mother (Pat Sidefin) was the team manager.”

Somerset Women Cricketers Players Gallery – Sophie Luff

It was obvious from a very young age that a very determined Sophie would become an excellent cricketer. Sophie’s cricket journey started-out at her local Somerset village team, and at school.

She represented Somerset Girls squads, and rapidly progressed into the Somerset 1st team.  She is a prolific to-order batter, and has amassed the most runs ever scored by a Somerset Player: She has scored five centuries, with a top score of 138 not-out against Wales in 2015.

Not unsurprisingly Sophie’s performances caught the eye of the England selectors, and she was picked for the National Development squads as early as 2008, and has represented the England Academy and A teams on numerous occasions, including tours to South Africa, Dubai and Sri Lanka.

Sophie became Somerset Captain in 2016. In that same year she was selected to be part of the Western Storm squad in the inaugural season of the Women’s [KIA] Super League: She has winners medals from the successful 2017 and 2019 campaigns.

Sophie has also developed her coaching skills, and in 2018 became the Head Coach for the Women’s and Girls squads at Somerset.

In 2020 Sophie became captain of Western Storm, eventually turning professional. And in 2021 was named as captain of the Welsh Fire team in the inaugural season of the Hundred Competition.

Sophie continues to represent Somerset.

Somerset Playing Statistics

Playing Period:2009-presentBatting:RHB
Appearances:>130Bowling:RA-M
Runs:>4000

Wickets:<10

Somerset Captain:2016-present

Other Teams: England Academy and A Team’s, Western Storm, Welsh Fire, London Spirit, New South Wales.

Career Statistics

CompetitionWLAWT20
Matches100137
Runs scored3,4152,410
Batting average46.1428.69
100s/50s7/200/10
Top score157*78
Balls bowled296197
Wickets28
Bowling average130.5029.75
5 wickets in innings00
10 wickets in match00
Best bowling1/272/12
Catches/stumpings32/–42/–

Somerset Cricket Club Players Gallery – Vic Marks

Victor James Marks (born 25 June 1955) is an English sports journalist and former professional cricketer.

An off spin bowler, Marks played in six Test matches and thirty four One Day Internationals for England. His entire county cricket career was spent with Somerset, spanning the period between 1975 and 1989. Vic also played for Oxford University whilst a student and had one season playing in Western Australia, winning the Sheffield Shield 1986–87.

Vic Marks made his first-class debut for Somerset in the 1975 County Championship. Even in a Somerset side coming into a successful period, with high-profile players, notably Viv Richards and Ian Botham, Marks at times stood out, especially in List A cricket. In 1982 he was man of the match in the final as Somerset won the Benson and Hedges Cup, an achievement he repeated in 1983 as Somerset won the NatWest Bank Trophy.

Vic had a distinguished first-class career between 1975 and 1989 for Somerset. He also played a season for Western Australia in the 1986–87 season, winning the Sheffield Shield. In 342 first-class matches he took 859 wickets at 33.28, and scored 12,419 runs at a batting average of 30.29.

Somerset Cricket Club Players Gallery – Peter Roebuck

Peter Michael Roebuck (6 March 1956 – 12 November 2011) was A consistent county performer with over 25,000 runs, and captained Somerset between 1986 and 1988. During 1989, Roebuck also captained an England XI one-day cricket team in two matches.

Peter Roebuck was a right-handed batsman, often used as an opener, and occasionally bowled right-arm offspin. He played for Somerset’s second eleven at the age of 13 and regular first-class cricket from 1974 until his retirement in 1991. He later played Minor Counties cricket for Devon.

In 335 first-class matches he scored 17,558 runs at an average of 37.27, making 33 centuries with a highest score of 221*, and took 72 wickets at 49.16. In 298 one-day matches, he scored 7244 runs at 29.81 while taking 51 wickets at 25.09.

He became a controversial figure in 1986 when, at the end of his first season as captain of Somerset, he was instrumental in the county’s decision not to renew the contracts of its two overseas players, Viv Richards and Joel Garner, which also resulted in the departure of Ian Botham.

Somerset Cricketers Players Gallery – Gerry Tordoff

George Gerald “Gerry” Tordoff (6 December 1929 – 16 January 2008) played first-class cricket for Somerset, Cambridge University and the Combined Services in the 1950s and early 1960s.

He was a left-handed batsman who could open the innings or bat in middle order and a right-arm medium-pace change bowler and had two seasons of virtually full-time cricket in 1952 and 1955, but was otherwise restricted by his career in the Royal Navy to occasional matches. He was given leave of absence by the Navy to captain Somerset in the 1955 season, but when the season was over, he resigned the captaincy and never appeared again for the county side.

Photo from SCCC Players, Photographs and Statistics – available in the Museum and Library

Somerset Women Players 2000 – 2024


Captains.


Kath Wilkins 2000-01

 Hannah Lloyd 2002-08

Steph Davies 2009-10

Moira Comfort 2011

Anya Shrubsole 2012-16

Sophie Luff 2016-22

Emily Edgcombe 2023-24


England Internationals.

 Caroline Atkins,

Sarah Collyer, 

Steph Davies,

Janet Godman,

Jackie Hawker,

Hannah Lloyd, 

Laura Harper,

Anya Shrubsole,

Frances Wilson

Katharine Winks

Lauren Filer

KSL* & Semi-Professional / Professional Player Era

Gwenan Davies

Lauren Filer  

Nicole Harvey (nee Richards)

Georgia Hennessy

Niamh Holland

Sophie Luff

Natasha Wraith


Overseas (Registered) Players

 Elwyn Campbell (Aus) 

Tamara Gould (NZ) 

Lizelle Lee (SA)

Magdelena Pokludova (CZE)

Isabelle Westbury (NHL)

Note. The appearance figures, and runs and wickets data identified below, are starting from the 2002 season. I have not currently been able to locate data from earlier years.

Most Appearances

> 100 Appearances> 75 Appearances> 50 Appearances
Sophie Luff (135)Lorraine Szczepanski (91)Nicole Harvey (nee Richards) (90)
Jackie Hawker (126) Moira Comfort (86)Lauren Shrubsole (69)
Lorraine Szczepanski (101)Jenny Withers (82)Beth Howe (62)
Anya Shrubsole (78)Georgina Adcock (62)
Frances Wilson (76)Cassie Coombes (60)
Georgia Tulip (53)
Steph Davies (52)

Highest Run Scorers

>4000 runs>2000 runs>1000 runs
Sophie LuffFrances WilsonAnya Shrubsol
Hannah Lloyd
Elwyn Campbell
Nicole Harvey (nee Richards)

Most Wickets

>100 wkts>75 wkts>50 wkts
Lorraine SzczepanskiJackie HawkerMoira Comfort
Nicole Harvey (nee RichardsAnya ShrubsoleLauren Shrubsole
Nicole HarveyKate Randall
Jenny Withers

All Somerset Women Players 2000 – 2024

Georgina Adcock 
Lucy Allison 
Coleen Ashbee
Lucy Ashman
Caroline Atkins
Vicky Ball
Emily Bayliss 
Alice Bird
Pauline Black 
Tilly Bond 
Lauren Bowen-Jones 
Sally Bradbury
Florence Broderick 
Elwyn Campbell
Zoey Cape 
Hannah Capes 
Olivia Churcher 
Carmen Clements 
Sarah Collyer
Moira Comfort 
Cassie Coombes 
GwenanDavies
Helen Davies
Emily Dibble
Steph Davies
Harriet Dimdore-Miles
Emily Divine
Evie Dixon
Emily Edgecombe
Morgan Edwards 
Jodie Filer 
Lauren Filer
Bernadette Forge 
Emily Geach
Laura Gladman 
Emma Godman 
Tamara Gould
Emma Hadfield
Sophie Hamilton 
Olivia Hamilton 
Laura Harper
Lola Harris 
Nicole Harvey (Richards)
Jackie Hawker
Poppy Hawker
Lily Hawkins 
Jess Hazell
Georgia Hennessy
Megan Hodkinson
Niamh Holland
Beth Howe 
Izzy Imlach
Daisy Jeanes
Neve Kennedy
Emily Knight 
Annabel Lamb
Lizelle Lee
Sophie Le Marchand 
Phillipa Letchford 
Hannah Lloyd
Sophie Luff
Ellie Mitchell 
Laila Moledina
Rebecca Odgers 
Ava Ojomoh
India Rose Owen
Lisa Pagett 
Anna Parkinson 
Emma Phillipson
Sophie Pickering
Magdalena Pokludova
Jennifer Poole
Kiri Purssy
Kate Randall 
Annie Riccio 
Jess Rice 
Gill Richards
Joleigh Roberts 
Emily Robinson 
Karla Rose
Katie Rowe
Anya Shrubsole
Lauren Shrubsole
Chloe Skelton
Jess Smith
Lesley Smith 
Hannah Sparks 
Ella Stewart
Lorraine Szczepanski 
Hannah Thompson
Liz Tilley 
Becky Travers 
Georgia Tulip 
Lucy Turner
Charlotte Voden 
Jenny Wallace
Gwyn West
Izzy Westbury
Sophia Westbury
Brooke Whittaker
Kathryn Wilkins 
Becky Williams
Hannah Williams 
Judy Wilmot 
France’s Wilson
Katharine Winks
Jenny Withers
Natasha Wraith

Grateful thanks to Mark Gladman for his research and provision of the above statistics

Kidmore End Cricket Club – 150 Not Out

1863 – 1900

It was in June 1863 that it was decided to found a cricket club in Kidmore End, or inKidmore as it was then known. The first meeting ever to be convened was held at the Schoolroom on 19th July of that year for the purpose of framing the club rules. Either the weather was kinder in those days or cricketers cared less about muddy wickets, but one of these rules laid down that the season should commence on the first Monday in April and end on the first Monday in October. A record exists of games having been played as late as 13th October. Practice was to be held on Monday and Friday evenings and the Club started its career with “4 bats, 2 balls and stumps, etc.” presented by the Vicar (the Revd J. W. Cobb).

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