The 1890 season saw Somerset County Cricket Club

Somerset County Cricket Club

Somerset County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Somerset...

playing thirteen fixtures against other county teams. These matches were not considered first-class

First-class cricket

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, after Somerset had five years earlier been removed from the County Championship

County Championship

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 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

Middlesex County Cricket Club

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. 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 dateAge refers to player's age at the start of the season (27 May 1890).	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
Herbie Hewett Herbie Hewett Herbert Tremenheere "Herbie" Hewett was an English amateur cricketer who played for Somerset, captaining the county from 1889 to 1893, as well as Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club. A battling left-handed opening batsman, Hewett could post a large score in a short time against even...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Left-handed	Unknown arm medium pace	Club captain Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...
John Challen John Challen John Bonamy Challen was an English cricketer who made 52 first-class appearances for Somerset between 1884 and 1899. He also played football for Corinthian F.C., and made four international appearances for Wales between 1887 and 1890.-External links:...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
Albert Clapp Albert Clapp Albert Edward Clapp was an English cricketer who made ten first-class appearances for Somerset between 1885 and 1895. He also played 32 matches for the club which were considered 'second-class' matches, when Somerset had their first-class status removed from 1886–1890...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace
Eustace Hill Eustace Hill Eustace Tickell Hill was a cricketer who made two first-class appearances for Somerset. The older brother of Vernon Hill, he first appeared for Somerset during their successful 1890 season. In a season in which Somerset remained undefeated against other county sides, Hill scored 20 and 0 batting...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	–
Stephen Newton Stephen Newton Stephen Cox Newton was an English cricketer who represented, and captained, Somerset County Cricket Club in the late 19th century...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	–
Lionel Palairet Lionel Palairet Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet was a famous cricketer of the so-called "Golden Age" of English cricket before the First World War...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace / slow (underarm) Underarm bowling In cricket, underarm bowling is as old as the sport itself. Until the introduction of the roundarm style in the first half of the 19th century, bowling was performed in the same way as in bowls, the ball being delivered with the hand below the waist...	Two Test Test cricket Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...  appearances for England in 1902.
Richard Palairet Richard Palairet Richard Cameron North Palairet, born 25 June 1871 at Grange-over-Sands, then in Lancashire and died 11 February 1955 at Budleigh Salterton, Devon was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Somerset...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	–
Crescens Robinson Crescens Robinson Crescens James Robinson played first-class cricket for Somerset in 31 matches from 1885 to 1896. He was born in Gloucester and died at Chelsea in London.-Family and background:...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	–
Bill Roe		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....  / medium pace
John Trask John Trask Surgeon-Captain John Ernest Trask was an English cricketer who made 16 first-class appearances. He played nine times for Somerset between 1884–1895, and also appeared in first-class matches in India...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium pace
Lower-order Batsmen
Joseph Gibbs Joseph Gibbs (cricketer) Joseph Arthur Gibbs was an English cricketer who made ten first-class appearances between 1891 and 1896. He played five first-class matches for Somerset, and also appeared for the MCC and I Zingari...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	–
Vernon Hill Vernon Hill (cricketer) Vernon Tickell Hill was a cricketer who made 140 first-class appearances for Somerset and Oxford University between 1891 and 1912. He first played for Somerset during their successful 1890 season. He made his top-score of 116 against Kent in 1898, sharing a seventh wicket partnership of 240 with...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Left-handed	Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
Edward Lock Edward Lock Edward John Lock was an English cricketer who made two first-class appearances for Somerset between 1891–1893. He also played three matches for the club which were considered 'second-class' matches, when Somerset had their first-class status removed from 1886–1890...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Unknown	–
Henry Murray Anderdon		Unknown	Unknown	–
S Spencer		Unknown	Unknown-handed	–
Thomas Spencer Thomas Spencer (cricketer) Thomas Spencer played first-class cricket for Somerset in three matches between 1891 and 1893. His birthplace is not known, and he died at Bishopsteignton, Devon....		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Unknown-handed	–
Clement Stock		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Unknown-handed	–
Edward Whitting Edward Whitting Edward Jewel Whitting was an English cricketer who made one first-class appearance in 1892. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler, although he did not bowl in first-class cricket.-Cricket career:...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right arm fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
Wilfrid Young Wilfrid Young The Reverend Wilfrid Alec Radford Young played first-class cricket for Somerset in the period from 1889 to 1893 immediately before and after the side's elevation to first-class status...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right arm slow Bowling (cricket) In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler; a bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder...
All-rounders
Gerald Fowler Gerald Fowler (cricketer) Gerald Fowler was an English cricketer who made 119 first-class appearances for Somerset between 1891 and 1903. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, Fowler was educated at Clifton College and Oxford University...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
Walter Hedley		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
George Nichols George Nichols (cricketer) George Benjamin Nichols was a professional first-class cricketer who played 134 matches for Somerset, after starting his career with five first-class appearances for Gloucestershire...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
Ted Tyler Ted Tyler Edwin James Tyler was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1891 and 1907...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox Left-arm orthodox spin Left-arm orthodox spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket.Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left arm bowler using the fingers to spin the ball from right to left of the cricket pitch...	One Test appearance for England in 1896.
Sammy Woods Sammy Woods Samuel Moses James "Sammy" Woods was an Australian sportsman who represented both Australia and England at Test cricket, and appeared thirteen times for England at rugby union, including five times as captain. He also played at county level in England at both soccer and hockey...	/	27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	Three Test appearances for Australia and three for England.
Wicket-keepers
Leonard Compton		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Unknown-handed	–
Edward Ebdon Edward Ebdon Edward William Ebdon was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Somerset...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	–
Arthur Newton Arthur Newton (cricketer) Arthur Edward Newton, born at Barton Grange, Corfe, Taunton, Somerset on 12 September 1862 and died at Dipford House, Trull, Somerset on 15 September 1952, played cricket for Somerset in the county's pre-first-class days and then for more than 20 years after the team entered the County Championship...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	–
Hamilton Ross Hamilton Ross Hamilton Ross was an English cricketer who made 20 first-class appearances between 1885 and 1895. He played twelve first-class matches for the MCC, and also appeared for Middlesex and Somerset...		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Right-handed	–
Bowlers
Charles Winter		27 May 1890 (age 121)	Unknown-handed	Right arm fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...

Matches

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Batting averages

Player	Matches	Innings	Runs Run (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...	Average Batting average Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...	100s Century (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for...	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

External links

• Cricket in England in 1890