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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)