Somerset County Cricket Club in 1892

Somerset County Cricket Club
1892 season
Captain Herbie Hewett
County Championship 3rd
Most runs Herbie Hewett (1,047)[1]
Most wickets Sammy Woods (85)[2]
Most catches Sammy Woods (20)[1]
← 1891 1893 →

In the 1892 season, Somerset County Cricket Club played their sixth season of first-class cricket, and participated in the County Championship for the second season. They finished third in the competition, two positions higher than in the previous year. Their captain, Herbie Hewett, completed the season as the club's leading run-scorer, topping 1,000 runs in the Championship. The all-rounder Sammy Woods took the most wickets for the county, with 85. A match was also played against Oxford, which was won by the student team.

County Championship

A black and white picture of Lionel Palairet and Herbie Hewett stood in front of a scoreboard reading 1, 201, 132.
Lionel Palairet and Herbie Hewett after their record first-wicket partnership of 346 against Yorkshire

Playing their second season as members of the County Championship, Somerset played sixteen matches, of which they won eight and lost five. Each of the final three matches of the season were curtailed by at least a day because of rain, and ended in draws.[3][4] Their performances were enough to rank them third among all counties in the standings,[3] and in his history of Somerset cricket, David Foot describes it as the season that led to Somerset being taken seriously as a club. He praised the leadership of the club's captain, Herbie Hewett, who picked players on merit, rather than "the strength of his social charm and ability to drink into the early hours."[4] Despite their general success, the county did suffer a heavy defeat to Lancashire in early August. After no play on the first day due to rain, Somerset lost the match on the second day, being bowled out twice for fewer than 100 runs.[5] Against another northern county, they set a new record partnership for the first wicket in first-class cricket; Hewett and Lionel Palairet scored 346 runs together in three and a half hours against Yorkshire.[6]

Season standings

Note: Pld = Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, D = Draws, Pts = Points.

County Championship[3]
Team Pld W L D Pts
Surrey (C) 16132111
Nottinghamshire 1610248
Somerset 168533
Lancashire 167542
Middlesex 167631
Yorkshire 165560
Gloucestershire 16187–7
Kent 16295–7
Sussex 161123–11

Notes:
Team marked  (C)  won the County Championship.

Match log and statistics

Match log
No. Date Opponents Venue Result Ref
1 2–3 June Surrey Kennington Oval, London Lost by 179 runs [7]
2 6–7 June Middlesex Lord's, London Lost by 112 runs [8]
3 20–21 June Kent Private Banks Sports Ground, Catford Won by 4 wickets [9]
4 23–25 June Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham Lost by 6 wickets [10]
5 14–16 July Gloucestershire Ashley Down Ground, Bristol Won by 7 wickets [11]
6 18–20 July Lancashire County Ground, Taunton Won by 4 wickets [12]
7 21–22 July Sussex County Ground, Taunton Won by 6 wickets [13]
8 25–26 July Kent County Ground, Taunton Won by 8 wickets [14]
9 8–9 August Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester Lost by 8 wickets [5]
10 11–12 August Yorkshire Bramall Lane, Sheffield Won by 87 runs [15]
11 15–17 August Surrey County Ground, Taunton Lost by 186 runs [16]
12 18–19 August Nottinghamshire County Ground, Taunton Won by an innings and 122 runs [17]
13 22–23 August Middlesex County Ground, Taunton Won by 70 runs [18]
14 25–27 August Yorkshire County Ground, Taunton Drawn [19]
15 29–31 August Gloucestershire County Ground, Taunton Drawn [20]
16 1–3 September Sussex County Ground, Hove Drawn [21]
Batting averages
Player Matches Innings Runs Average Highest score 100s 50s
Hewett, HerbieHerbie Hewett 16 27 1,047 40.26 201 1 9
Palairet, LionelLionel Palairet 13 21 659 32.95 146 2 3
Hedley, CooteCoote Hedley 13 20 446 26.23 102 1 3
Challen, JohnJohn Challen 11 17 335 22.33 72 0 1
Fowler, GeraldGerald Fowler 12 17 309 20.60 54 0 2
Hill, VernonVernon Hill 10 13 224 18.66 93 0 1
Woods, SammySammy Woods 16 24 322 15.33 76 0 1
Qualification: 200 runs. Source: CricketArchive.[1]
Bowling averages
Player Matches Balls Wickets Average BBI 5wi 10wi
Nichols, GeorgeGeorge Nichols 16 2,208 51 15.47 5/24 2 0
Hedley, CooteCoote Hedley 13 1,244 36 15.83 4/18 0 0
Tyler, TedTed Tyler 16 2,765 81 16.03 9/33 4 1
Woods, SammySammy Woods 16 2,896 85 16.43 8/51 9 2
Qualification: 30 wickets. Source: CricketArchive.[2]

University match

Other matches
No. Date Opponents Venue Result Ref
1 9–10 June Oxford University University Parks, Oxford Lost by 7 wickets [22]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 "Batting and fielding for Somerset: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Bowling for Somerset: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "County Championship 1892 table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  4. 1 2 Foot (1986), p. 34.
  5. 1 2 "Lancashire v Somerset: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  6. ↑ Roebuck (1991), p. 62.
  7. ↑ "Surrey v Somerset: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  8. ↑ "Middlesex v Somerset: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "Kent v Somerset: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  10. ↑ "Nottinghamshire v Somerset: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  11. ↑ "Gloucestershire v Somerset: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  12. ↑ "Somerset v Lancashire: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  13. ↑ "Somerset v Sussex: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  14. ↑ "Somerset v Kent: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  15. ↑ "Yorkshire v Somerset: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  16. ↑ "Somerset v Surrey: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  17. ↑ "Somerset v Nottinghamshire: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  18. ↑ "Somerset v Middlesex: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  19. ↑ "Somerset v Yorkshire: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  20. ↑ "Somerset v Gloucestershire: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  21. ↑ "Sussex v Somerset: County Championship 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  22. ↑ "Oxford University v Somerset: University Match 1892". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 December 2014.

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