Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 16hCan you name every Somerset player in 2026? Men: www.sporcle.com/games/danthe... Women: www.sporcle.com/games/danthe... 020
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A thread of CC stats In the 2025 County Championship, there were: 37 home wins 27 away wins 62 draws This year, there were: 47 home wins 40 away wins 39 draws So we saw far fewer draws, while home and away wins remained in a similar proportion compared to each other 1/8 251
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The final list of full subs used in the County Championship this season In total there were 61 full subs, split into: 47 injury/illness/life event subs under the new rules 3 concussion subs 11 international call-up related subs 1/6 100
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A few facts from this year's County Championship finishing positions... - Since 2023, Essex have finished, in this order, 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th (assuming Leics don't get their points back) - Glamorgan finished 6th and survive a season in Div 1 for the first time. It's... 1/4 111
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not that their status was ever in doubt this year but Somerset will play in Division 1 for a record-extending 18th consecutive season in 2027 Meanwhile, Hampshire's 10-season stint, the third-longest stint ever, comes to an end Surrey will join them on 10 seasons next year 1/5 382
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The evolution of Tom Abell's first-class high score 95 v Warwickshire at Taunton, 2014 (debut) 131 v Hampshire at Taunton, 2015 135 v Lancashire at Old Trafford, 2016 150* v Surrey at the Oval, 2022 151 v Lancashire at Taunton, 2023 152* v Warwickshire at Taunton, 2024 1/2 110
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Number of individual centuries for Somerset in the County Championship since it was reduced to 14 games 2017: 9 2018: 10 2019: 6 2021: 5 2022: 13 2023: 12 2024: 8 2025: 13 2026: 17 120
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Tom Abell ended the season on 1287 runs, the most for Somerset in a 14-game County Championship season, and the second-most in the country this season, just one run behind Joe Clarke 030
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Somerset end the season having conceded just three individual centuries in the County Championship, by Daniel Hughes, Charlie Allison and Dan Lawrence, all at Taunton To not concede any away centuries must be pretty rare 030
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Highest Division 1 scores this season Tom Abell 307 for Somerset v Surrey at Taunton Tom Lammonby 229 for Somerset v Surrey at Taunton James Coles 224* for Sussex v Glamorgan at Hove (Luke Procter 261* and Ben McKinney 244 were the only scores higher than Lammonby in Div 2) 120
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Somerset's triple centurions club gains a new member: Tom Banton 371 Justin Langer 342 and 315 Viv Richards 322 Jimmy Cook 313* Graeme Smith 311 Harold Gimblett 310 Tom Abell 307 James Hildreth 303* 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Somerset's highest totals in first-class cricket 850/7 v Middlesex at Taunton, 2007 731 v Surrey at Taunton, 2026 705/9 v Hampshire at Taunton, 2003 688/8 v Surrey at Guildford, 2006 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Two double-centuries in a first-class match for Somerset James Hildreth 268 and Nick Compton 236 v Cardiff MCCU at Taunton Vale, 2012 Tom Abell 307 and Tom Lammonby 229 v Surrey at Taunton, 2026 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Tom Abell and Migael Pretorius set a new 9th wicket record partnership for Somerset first-class cricket They pass 183 by Chris Greetham and Harold Stephenson v Leics at Weston-super-Mare in 1963, and by Chris Tavaré and Neil Mallender v Sussex at Hove in 1990 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today's County Championship live streams Division 1 Gla v Ess: www.youtube.com/live/O3wSeEM... Som v Sur: www.youtube.com/live/S-2kA0z... Division 2 Lan v Dur: www.youtube.com/live/4j3ZooP... 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026JT Langridge ends his Gloucestershire stint with 22 wickets at 22.13 in 4 games, with 2 five-fors He ends the season as Gloucestershire's 3rd-highest wicket-taker Fascinated to see how he goes when he, all being well, makes his Div 1 debut next year - such an exciting prospect 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Tom Abell and Migael Pretorius have set a new 9th wicket record partnership for Somerset against Surrey in first-class cricket They pass 126 by Vernon Hill and Teddy Tyler at Taunton in 1896, which, funnily enough, was also Somerset's last match of the season 010
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yorkshire beating Notts confirms that Somerset will finish second in the County Championship 020
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 26/09/2026First-class high score for Tom Abell, passing his 156 v Notts at Trent Bridge last year His previous highest score at Taunton was 152* v Warwickshire in 2024 010
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Tom Lammonby and Tom Abell set a new 4th wicket record partnership for Somerset in first-class cricket They pass 313 by...James Rew and Tom Abell against Notts at Trent Bridge last year 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Tom Lammonby and Tom Abell set a new 4th wicket record partnership for Somerset against Surrey in first-class cricket They pass 251 by Viv Richards and Peter Roebuck at Weston-super-Mare in 1977 120
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is Tom Lammonby's highest score in first-class cricket, beating 133 v Warwickshire at Edgbaston last year His highest score at Taunton before this was 110 v Northants in 2022 Also, Lammonby has 10 first-class centuries. 6 of them came in September. 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Today's County Championship Division 1 live streams Gla v Ess: www.youtube.com/live/H1dQoM7... Ham v Sus: www.youtube.com/live/9KJ3vzf... Not v Yor: www.youtube.com/live/ZXHVbnC... Som v Sur: www.youtube.com/live/13epHS6... War v Lei: www.youtube.com/live/nfHTWGd... 110
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Single figure batting points in a County Championship season 5 by Middlesex, 2023 (div 1) 4 by Hampshire, 2026 (div 1) 7 by Gloucestershire, 2026 (div 2) Context - these all came after the threshold for batting points became 250+, and there are now fewer games than previously 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Leaving aside events elsewhere, today couldn't have gone much better for Somerset Bowled Surrey out fairly quickly and Lammonby and Abell batted serenely Need to keep building and get into the lead sometime before tea tomorrow, ideally 010
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Somerset batters reaching 1000 runs in a season since the County Championship was reduced to 14 games in 2017: 2018: James Hildreth, 1089 2022: Tom Abell, 1039 2023: James Rew, 1086 2025: Tom Abell, 1022 2025: James Rew, 1053 2026: Tom Abell, 1043* 140
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Tom Lammonby averts what would have been the first centuryless season of his first-class career He has also scored his first first-class century at Taunton since September 2023, which came against Kent 120
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Surrey have subbed in Ralphie Albert for Rahul Chahar, which doesn't seem very like-for-like Chahar is very much a specialist bowler (FC average 16, one fifty), whereas Albert is an all-rounder who bats in the top 5 for Surrey 2nd XI and has batted at 7 in Surrey's first team 110
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026For Somerset's purposes, bonus points are now irrelevant - whatever number of bonus points they end with, the equation is simple: Somerset win and Warks lose, Somerset win the County Championship Anything else, Somerset won't win the County Championship 010
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's now mathematically certain that Somerset must win, and Warwickshire must lose, for Somerset to win the County Championship Notts are now irrelevant - Somerset must win, and if they do so, Notts can't catch them 010
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hampshire finish the season with 4 County Championship batting points - the lowest number ever They break Middlesex's record of 5 in 2023 (Batting points, ie points received for scoring a certain number of runs, were introduced in 1968. No team until now has scored as few as 4) 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Instances of a team getting every possible bowling point in a County Championship season this century: Yorks 2000 (D1) Hants 2000 (D1) Surrey 2002 (D1) Notts 2002 (D2) Derbs 2002 (D2) Hants 2006 (D1) Durham 2009 (D1) Warks 2018 (D2) Middx 2021 (group 2/D3) 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The quest to complete the season's bowling points is thwarted at the last possible moment Somerset miss a bowling point for the first time since Notts at Trent Bridge in Jul/Aug 2025 It's the first time they've missed one at home since Notts at Taunton in Jun/Jul 2025 1/2 110
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Today's County Championship Division 1 live streams Gla v Ess: www.youtube.com/live/tooQQ79... Ham v Sus: www.youtube.com/live/8c4rpH-... Not v Yor: www.youtube.com/live/y6b4NKl... Som v Sur: www.youtube.com/live/5c0RlRH... War v Lei: www.youtube.com/live/e4zjUld... 110
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Our hopes are slipping Our hopes of obtaining every possible bowling point this season 110
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tom Kohler-Cadmore is having his first bowl in professional cricket 220
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today's County Championship Division 1 live streams Gla v Ess: www.youtube.com/live/BmBxCYd... Ham v Sus: www.youtube.com/live/o0Frun_... Not v Yor: www.youtube.com/live/030ZeoR... Som v Sur: www.youtube.com/live/tstcE87... War v Lei: www.youtube.com/live/C1BstR2... 110
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Think it'll be TKC for Ball. Last two home games we've played Goldsworthy over a 4th seamer but in a game where we need as many batting points as possible, the attacking option in TKC would make sense. 010
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 23/09/2026These combinations of points would win Somerset the County Championship Firstly, 20+ points for Somerset would make Notts irrelevant: Somerset 24 Warks 13 Somerset 23 Warks 12 Somerset 22 Warks 11 Somerset 21 Warks 10 Somerset 20 Warks 9 1/4 220
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Stats and facts ahead of Somerset v Surrey at Taunton in the County Championship tomorrow Surrey won the last match between the sides, at the Oval in April 2025 The last match between the sides at Taunton was Somerset's famous win with minutes to spare in September 2024 1/5 120
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There was not a single no result/abandonment in the men's county white-ball competitions this season In the women's comps, there were 4, one in each of the tier 1 ODC, tier 1 Blast, tier 2 ODC, and County Cup (decided by a bowl-out) 010
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Sky wrongly saying it's Middlesex's first List A trophy in 36 years, forgetting they won the 1992 Sunday League. Obviously forgetting to include List A trophies that didn't end in finals Some sources made a similar mistake with Worcs last year, forgetting they won the 2007 Pro40 010
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Middlesex win... - their first trophy since the 2016 County Championship - their first List A trophy since the 1992 Sunday League - a List A final for the first time since the 1990 Refuge Assurance Cup - a major List A final for the first time since the 1988 NatWest Trophy 100
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Leicestershire and Middlesex today meet in a men's final for the second time, following the 1975 Benson & Hedges Cup final which Leicestershire won by 5 wickets Leicestershire have won 6 List A trophies, the most recent being the 2023 One-Day Cup. If they repeat the feat... 1/3 111
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Congratulations to the ECB for scheduling the Women's One-Day Cup League 2 final for today, the same day as the men's One-Day Cup final. Middlesex are playing in both matches. I feel sorry for their women who won't get the attention they deserve. 1/4 130
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It's the Women's Metro Bank One-Day Cup League 2 final today, 10:30am start Glamorgan play Middlesex at Bristol Glamorgan win toss and bowl Scorecard: live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_s... Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/Ty8v4VU... 010
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Women's One-Day Cup final stream right now Having been cruising earlier, The Blaze are 223/6 needing 29 off 18 balls www.youtube.com/watch?v=StsB...youtube.comLIVE STREAM | The Blaze v Hampshire Women | Metro Bank One-Day Cup FinalYouTube video by Hampshire Cricket 000
Dan Kingdom @dankingdom96.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Updated list of full subs in the County Championship this season 7 subs in the latest round, the joint-most there's been in a single round, all injury-related under the new rules 1/4 110
