The Somerset Cricket Board (SCB) is the governing body for all recreational

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

in the historic county of

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, and was established in 1994 under its first Cricket Development Officer Andrew Moulding. Following a restructuring in January 2010, the SCB now operates as a

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. The current SCB Chairman is Andy Curtis, and the Cricket Development Manager is Andy Fairbairn. The Somerset Cricket Board competed in the

MCCA Knockout Trophy The National Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the National Counties in English cricket. At first it was known as the ''English Industrial Estates Cup'', before being called the ...

between 1998 and 2002. They have appeared in five

List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

matches, making two

NatWest Trophy The Friends Provident Trophy was a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom. It was one of the four tournaments in which the eighteen first-class cricket, first-class counties competed each season. They were joined by teams from Scott ...

and three

Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The Friends Provident Trophy was a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom. It was one of the four tournaments in which the eighteen first-class counties competed each season. They were joined by teams from Scotland and Ireland. La ...

appearances.

List A players

:''See List of Somerset Cricket Board List A players and :Somerset Cricket Board cricketers''

Grounds

''Below is a complete list of grounds used by the Somerset Cricket Board representative side when it was permitted to play List A and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Somerset Cricket Board County Cricket Boards Cricket in Somerset Organisations based in Taunton