Somerset County Cricket Club in 1890
Introduction The '''1890 season''' saw '''Somerset County Cricket Club''' playing thirteen fixtures against other county teams. These matches were not considered first-class, after Somerset had five years earlier been removed from the County Championship due to playing too few matches against other first-class counties. In the summer of 1890, Somerset scheduled thirteen fixtures, winning twelve of them and tying one against Middlesex. As a result of this, they were readmitted to the County Championship for the following 1891 season.
Squad Players with international caps are listed in '''bold'''. Name Nat Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes Batsmen Herbie Hewett     Left-handed  Unknown arm medium pace  Club captain John Challen     Right-handed  Right arm fast-medium  Albert Clapp     Right-handed  Right arm medium pace  Eustace Hill     Right-handed  –  Stephen Newton     Right-handed  –  '''Lionel Palairet'''     Right-handed  Right arm medium pace / slow (underarm)  Two Test appearances for England in 1902.Richard Palairet     Right-handed  –  Crescens Robinson     Right-handed  –  Bill Roe     Right-handed  Right arm off break / medium pace  John Trask     Right-handed  Right-arm medium pace  Lower-order Batsmen Joseph Gibbs     Right-handed  –  Vernon Hill     Left-handed  Right arm fast-medium  Edward Lock     Unknown  –  Henry Murray-Anderdon     Unknown  –  Honorary club secretary S Spencer   Unknown  Unknown-handed –  Thomas Spencer     Unknown-handed  –  Assistant secretary Clement Stock     Unknown-handed  –  Edward Whitting     Right-handed  Right arm fast  Wilfrid Young     Right-handed  Right arm slow  All-rounders Gerald Fowler     Right-handed  Right arm fast-medium  Walter Hedley     Right-handed  Right arm fast-medium  George Nichols     Right-handed  Right arm fast-medium  '''Ted Tyler'''     Left-handed  Slow left-arm orthodox  One Test appearance for England in 1896. '''Sammy Woods''' /    Right-handed  Right arm fast-medium  Three Test appearances for Australia and three for England. Wicket-keepers Leonard Compton     Unknown-handed  –  Edward Ebdon     Right-handed  –  Arthur Newton     Right-handed  –  Hamilton Ross     Right-handed  –  Bowlers Charles Winter     Unknown-handed  Right arm fast
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Batting averages  Player Matches  Innings  Runs  Average  100s  50s     15  543    1  2     14  408    1  1     12  316    0  1     18  497    1  3     14  286    0  1     18  297    0  0     13  162    0  0     15  159    0  0 Qualification: 150 runs. Source: CricketArchive
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External links *  Cricket in England in 1890