Somerset CCC – Captains

Click on the names below for more details (more links will be added in due course). For more detailed information please refer to the three books by Stephen Hill and Barry Phillips:

	Name	Years	First Match	Last Match
1	Stephen Newton	1882–1884	4 August 1882	28 August 1884
2	Edward Sainsbury	1885	16 July 1885	27 August 1885
3	Herbie Hewett	1891–1893	18 May 1891	28 August 1893
4	Sammy Woods	1894–1906	6 July 1893	10 August 1908
5	Lionel Palairet	1907	18 August 1898	29 August 1907
6	John Daniell	1908–1912 1919–1926	11 May 1908	28 August 1926
7	Massey Poyntz	1913–1914	23 May 1910	31 August 1914
8	Jack White	1927–1931	16 May 1919	13 July 1935
9	Reggie Ingle	1932–1937	17 July 1929	19 August 1939
10	Bunty Longrigg	1938–1946	23 June 1937	31 May 1947
11	Jack Meyer	1947	30 August 1939	30 August 1947
12	Mandy Mitchell-Innes	1948	1 August 1936	22 May 1949
13	Jake Seamer	1948	29 May 1948	10 July 1948
14	George Woodhouse	1948–1949	19 July 1947	27 August 1949
15	Stuart Rogers	1950–1952	3 May 1950	27 May 1953
16	Ben Brocklehurst	1953–1954	2 May 1953	28 August 1954
17	Gerry Tordoff	1955	7 May 1955	31 August 1955
18	Maurice Tremlett	1956–1959	11 May 1949	2 September 1959
19	Harold Stephenson	1960–1964	17 July 1957	23 May 1964
20	Colin Atkinson	1965–1967	21 June 1961	6 September 1967
21	Roy Kerslake	1968	11 May 1968	31 August 1968
22	Brian Langford	1969–1971	19 June 1965	26 August 1972
23	Brian Close	1972–1977	18 August 1971	7 September 1977
24	Brian Rose	1978–1983	19 April 1978	10 July 1983
25	Ian Botham	1984–1985	17 May 1980	24 August 1985
26	Peter Roebuck	1986–1988	8 June 1983	21 August 1988
27	Vic Marks	1989	9 July 1980	8 September 1989
28	Chris Tavaré	1990–1993	17 May 1989	31 August 1993
29	Andy Hayhurst	1994–1996	5 September 1993	30 July 1996
30	Peter Bowler	1997–1998	25 May 1995	27 July 2004
31	Jamie Cox	1999–2002	15 April 1999	12 May 2004
32	Mike Burns	2003–2004	17 June 2001	16 September 2004
33	Graeme Smith	2005	5 June 2005	30 July 2005
34	Ian Blackwell	2005–2006	26 July 2005	24 May 2006
35	Justin Langer	2007–2009	18 April 2007	18 October 2009
36	Marcus Trescothick	2010–2015	23 May 1999	22 September 2015
37	Chris Rogers	2016	10 April 2016	20 September 2016
38	Tom Abell	2017–present	14 April 2017