 In their eight first @-@ class matches in 1882 , Somerset fielded 30 different players . Only three appeared in all eight matches : Arnold Fothergill , William Herbert Fowler , and Edward Sainsbury , while fourteen players appeared in only one match that season . The club captain , Stephen Newton , missed the first three matches of the season as he was a schoolmaster in London , and was not available until the summer holidays . Newton was not the only talented player to only make limited appearances for the side ; in their review of the season , the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack explained that Alfred Evans , Robert Ramsay and Bill Roe were all unavailable at various points , and that these absences were among " many good reasons to account for a disastrous season . " 
