scored 768 runs for Taunton at an average of 76.80 and followed this up, in 2014 with 770 runs for Taunton in the West of England Premier League, with a highest score of 185* at an average of 128.33 as he helped the club earn promotion. Abell made his first appearances for the Somerset Second XI in 2010, Abell was named Second XI player of the year in 2013, after he amassed 1,234 runs at an average of 40.13, including four centuries and five scores of 50 or more. After leaving Taunton School, Abell went on to study a degree in Flexible Combined Honours, Sports Science and French, at the University of Exeter. While at university he led the men's first team to the finals of the BUCS outdoor championships, and the indoor league title. First-team breakthrough He made his Somerset first-class debut against Warwickshire in August 2014, having been called up to the team as a late replacement for the county's overseas player Alviro Petersen who had suffered a knee injury. He scored 95 in his first innings, and was the last man out for Somerset with the total on 286, narrowly missing out on the becoming the first Somerset-born player, since Harold Gimblett in 1935, to score a century on their County Championship debut. Abell maintained his place in the Somerset side until the end of the season scoring two further half-centuries, scoring exactly 50 against Middlesex, and 75 in Somerset's final match of the season away at champions Yorkshire, he finished the season with 292 runs at an average of 41. At the end of the season Abell was one of four Somerset players to be awarded a new one-year contract. After breaking into the Somerset side batting at number four, Abell spent the 2015 season as Marcus Trescothick's regular opening partner. His season began poorly with a second ball duck in Somerset's opening match against the Durham MCC University side. Having missed games during the early part of the season due to university commitments, Abell made his first half-century of the season against defending champions Yorkshire, on 25 May 2015, he also took his maiden first-class wicket in the match having Yorkshire bowler Jack Brooks caught behind for 24, he ended the innings with bowling analysis of 1/11 from 4.4 overs. In early June 2015, Abell was awarded a new four-year contract extension with Somerset. On