Somerset County Cricket Club in 1979

Somerset County Cricket Club
1979 season
Captain	Brian Rose
Overseas player	Joel Garner; Hallam Moseley; Viv Richards
County Championship	8th
Gillette Cup	Winners
John Player League	Winners
Benson & Hedges Cup	Disqualified
Most runs	Brian Rose (1,317)
Most wickets	Vic Marks (57)
← 1978	1980 →

Somerset County Cricket Club competed in four competitions in the 1979 season: the first-class County Championship; and three limited overs competitions — the Gillette Cup, the John Player League and the Benson & Hedges Cup. The county fared well in the limited-overs competitions, winning both the Gillette Cup and the John Player League (the first two trophies ever won by the club), but were ejected from the Benson & Hedges Cup when the TCCB ruled they had brought the game into disrepute after a declaration during a match against Worcestershire.

CaptainBrian Rose

Overseas playerJoel Garner
Hallam Moseley
Viv Richards

County Championship8th

Gillette CupWinners

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Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes	Ref
Batsmen
Peter Denning	England	(1949-12-16)16 December 1949 (aged 29)	Left-handed	Right arm off break		^[1]
Mervyn Kitchen	England	(1940-08-01)1 August 1940 (aged 38)	Left-handed	Right arm medium		^[2]
Martin Olive	England	(1958-04-18)18 April 1958 (aged 21)	Right-handed	Right arm medium		^[3]
Viv Richards	West Indies	(1952-03-07)7 March 1952 (aged 27)	Right-handed	Right arm slow	Overseas player	^[4]
Peter Roebuck	England	(1956-03-06)6 March 1956 (aged 23)	Right-handed	Right arm off break		^[5]
Brian Rose	England	(1950-06-04)4 June 1950 (aged 28)	Left-handed	Left arm medium	Club captain	^[6]
Phil Slocombe	England	(1954-09-06)6 September 1954 (aged 24)	Right-handed	Right arm medium		^[7]
All-rounders
Ian Botham	England	(1955-11-24)24 November 1955 (aged 23)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium		^[8]
Dennis Breakwell	England	(1948-07-02)2 July 1948 (aged 30)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox		^[9]
Graham Burgess	England	(1943-05-05)5 May 1943 (aged 35)	Right-handed	Right arm medium		^[10]
Jeremy Lloyds	England	(1954-11-17)17 November 1954 (aged 24)	Left-handed	Right arm off break		^[11]
Vic Marks	England	(1955-06-25)25 June 1955 (aged 23)	Right-handed	Right arm off break		^[12]
Nigel Popplewell	England	(1957-08-08)8 August 1957 (aged 21)	Right-handed	Right arm medium		^[13]
Wicket-keepers
Trevor Gard	England	(1957-06-02)2 June 1957 (aged 21)	Right-handed	—		^[14]
Derek Taylor	England	(1942-11-12)12 November 1942 (aged 36)	Right-handed	—		^[15]
Bowlers
Colin Dredge	England	(1954-08-04)4 August 1954 (aged 24)	Left-handed	Right arm medium		^[16]
Joel Garner	West Indies	(1952-12-16)16 December 1952 (aged 26)	Right-handed	Right arm fast	Overseas player	^[17]
David Gurr	England	(1956-03-27)27 March 1956 (aged 23)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium		^[18]
Keith Jennings	England	(1953-10-05)5 October 1953 (aged 25)	Right-handed	Right arm medium		^[19]
Hallam Moseley	West Indies	(1948-05-28)28 May 1948 (aged 30)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium	Overseas player	^[20]

County Championship
Team	Pld	W	L	D	A	Bat	Bwl	Pts
Essex (C)	22	13	4	4	1	56	69	281
Worcestershire	22	7	4	10	1	58	62	204
Surrey	22	6	3	12	1	50	70	192
Sussex	22	6	4	10	2	47	65	184
Kent	22	6	3	13	0	49	60	181
Leicestershire	22	4	5	12	1	60	68	176
Yorkshire	22	5	3	13	1	52	63	175
Somerset	22	5	1	15	1	56	55	171
Nottinghamshire	22	6	4	9	3	43	54	169
Gloucestershire	22	5	4	11	2	53	54	167
Northamptonshire	22	3	6	12	1	59	58	153
Hampshire	22	3	9	9	1	39	66	141
Lancashire	22	4	4	14	0	37	55	140
Middlesex	22	3	3	14	2	44	60	140
Warwickshire	22	3	7	11	1	46	51	133
Derbyshire	22	1	6	14	1	46	60	118
Glamorgan	22	0	10	11	1	35	58	93
Source: CricketArchive^[21]

No.	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Ref
1	2–4 May	Worcestershire	County Ground, New Road, Worcester	Drawn	^[22]
2	9–11 May	Northamptonshire	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 10 wickets	^[23]
3	16–18 May	Surrey	County Ground, Taunton	Drawn	^[24]
4	26–29 May	Gloucestershire	Phoenix County Ground, Bristol	Match abandoned	^[25]
5	30 May–1 June	Warwickshire	Edgbaston, Birmingham	Drawn	^[26]
6	2–5 June	Hampshire	County Ground, Taunton	Drawn	^[27]
7	13–15 June	Kent	Hesketh Park, Dartford	Drawn	^[28]
8	16–19 June	Essex	Recreation Ground, Bath	Drawn	^[29]
9	20–22 June	Glamorgan	Recreation Ground, Bath	Drawn	^[30]
10	27–29 June	Worcestershire	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 208 runs	^[31]
11	30 June–2 July	Yorkshire	St George's Road, Harrogate	Drawn	^[32]
12	7–10 July	Glamorgan	St Helen's, Swansea	Won by an innings and 8 runs	^[33]
13	11–13 July	Warwickshire	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 153 runs	^[34]
14	14–17 July	Leicestershire	Grace Road, Leicester	Drawn	^[35]
15	1–3 August	Hampshire	County Ground, Southampton	Drawn	^[36]
16	4–7 August	Lancashire	Old Trafford, Manchester	Drawn	^[37]
17	11–14 August	Sussex	Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare	Won by 6 wickets	^[38]
18	15–17 August	Nottinghamshire	Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare	Drawn	^[39]
19	18–21 August	Middlesex	Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood	Drawn	^[40]
20	25–28 August	Gloucestershire	County Ground, Taunton	Drawn	^[41]
21	1–4 September	Derbyshire	County Ground, Taunton	Drawn	^[42]
22	5–7 September	Sussex	County Ground, Hove	Lost by 9 wickets	^[43]

Player	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	Highest Score	100s	50s
Peter Roebuck	20	32	1,125	45.00	89	0	10
Peter Denning	20	31	1,114	42.84	106	2	6
Brian Rose	20	31	1,270	42.33	133	2	8
Viv Richards	15	24	996	41.50	156	3	4
Colin Dredge	9	10	196	39.20	55	0	1
Vic Marks	21	27	762	38.10	93	0	7
Ian Botham	11	15	487	34.78	120	1	1
Derek Taylor	20	20	318	31.80	50*	0	1
Phil Slocombe	20	32	804	27.72	103*	1	6
Dennis Breakwell	21	26	441	24.50	54*	0	2
Jeremy Lloyds	3	5	92	18.40	43	0	0
Joel Garner	14	10	106	17.66	53	0	1
Mervyn Kitchen	5	6	87	14.50	34	0	0
Hallam Moseley	6	4	25	8.33	15	0	0
Nigel Popplewell	6	8	50	7.14	13	0	0
Keith Jennings	16	9	16	4.00	11*	0	0
David Gurr	3	1	11	—	11*	0	0
Trevor Gard	1	1	7	—	7*	0	0

Player	Matches	Wickets	Average	BBI	5wi
Joel Garner	14	55	13.83	6/80	4
Peter Roebuck	20	1	22.00	1/2	0
Hallam Moseley	6	17	22.64	5/18	1
Vic Marks	21	50	27.54	6/33	4
Dennis Breakwell	21	40	30.00	6/41	1
Colin Dredge	9	21	31.38	4/40	0
Ian Botham	11	26	32.53	6/81	1
Keith Jennings	16	16	33.56	4/25	0
Nigel Popplewell	6	5	43.00	3/43	0
Viv Richards	15	3	69.33	2/47	0
David Gurr	3	2	92.50	2/36	0
Jeremy Lloyds	3	0	—	—	0

Somerset County Cricket Club in 1979

Squad

County Championship

Season standings

Match log

Batting averages

Bowling averages

Other first-class matches

Match log

Gillette Cup

Match log

Batting averages

Bowling averages

John Player League

Season standings

Match log

Batting averages

Bowling averages

Benson & Hedges Cup

Season standings

Match log

Batting averages

Bowling averages

Statistics

Batting

Bowling

Fielding

Wicket-keeping

References

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Match type	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Ref
University match	9–12 June	Oxford University	The University Parks, Oxford	Drawn	^[46]
University match	23–25 June	Cambridge University	Recreation Ground, Bath	Won by 6 wickets	^[47]
Tourist match	28–30 July	Indians	County Ground, Taunton	Drawn	^[48]

No.	Stage	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Ref
—	First round	No game (bye)
1	Second round	18 July	Derbyshire	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 8 wickets	^[49]
2	Quarter-final	8 August	Kent	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 130 runs	^[50]
3	Semi-final	22 August	Middlesex	Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood	Won by 7 wickets	^[51]
4	Final	8 September	Northamptonshire	Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood	Won by 45 runs	^[52]

Player	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	Highest Score	100s	50s
Viv Richards	4	4	266	66.50	117	1	1
Peter Denning	4	3	112	56.00	90*	0	1
Brian Rose	4	4	163	54.33	88*	0	1
Graham Burgess	3	2	51	51.00	50*	0	1
Joel Garner	4	2	36	36.00	24*	0	0
Ian Botham	4	3	62	31.00	29	0	0
Peter Roebuck	4	4	60	20.00	26	0	0
Phil Slocombe	2	2	40	20.00	38	0	0
Vic Marks	2	1	9	9.00	9	0	0
Keith Jennings	4	1	7	7.00	7	0	0
Dennis Breakwell	4	2	13	6.50	8	0	0
Derek Taylor	4	2	3	3.00	2	0	0
Colin Dredge	1	0	—	—	—	0	0

Player	Matches	Overs	Wickets	Average	Economy	BBI	4wi	5wi
Joel Garner	4	43.0	17	5.41	2.13	6/29	1	2
Graham Burgess	3	26.0	5	14.80	2.84	3/25	0	0
Keith Jennings	4	40.0	6	17.33	2.60	3/31	0	0
Ian Botham	4	43.0	4	33.25	3.09	3/15	0	0
Viv Richards	4	15.0	1	72.00	4.80	1/44	0	0
Colin Dredge	1	12.0	0	—	2.66	—	0	0
Dennis Breakwell	4	20.0	0	—	3.55	—	0	0
Vic Marks	2	4.0	0	—	5.50	—	0	0

John Player League
Team	Pld	W	L	NR	A	Pts	RR
Somerset (C)	16	12	3	0	1	50	4.257
Kent	16	11	3	0	2	48	4.185
Worcestershire	16	9	4	1	2	42	5.032
Middlesex	16	9	5	0	2	40	4.385
Yorkshire	16	8	4	1	3	40	4.322
Essex	16	8	6	1	1	36	4.277
Leicestershire	16	7	5	1	3	36	4.361
Gloucestershire	16	7	7	0	2	32	4.414
Nottinghamshire	16	6	6	1	3	32	4.376
Hampshire	16	7	8	0	1	30	4.368
Lancashire	16	6	7	3	0	30	4.154
Glamorgan	16	6	10	0	0	24	4.108
Northamptonshire	16	5	9	1	1	24	4.170
Surrey	16	5	9	1	1	24	4.255
Sussex	16	6	10	0	0	24	4.220
Derbyshire	16	4	9	0	3	22	4.065
Warwickshire	16	2	13	0	1	10	4.694
Source: CricketArchive^[55]

No.	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Ref
1	29 April	Surrey	Kennington Oval, Kennington	Won by 6 runs	^[56]
2	13 May	Warwickshire	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 4 runs	^[57]
3	20 May	Worcestershire	County Ground, New Road, Worcester	Match abandoned	^[58]
4	3 June	Hampshire	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 3 wickets	^[59]
5	10 June	Gloucestershire	Imperial Athletic Ground, Bristol	Won by 8 wickets	^[60]
6	17 June	Essex	Recreation Ground, Bath	Won by 9 wickets	^[61]
7	1 July	Yorkshire	North Marine Road, Scarborough	Won by 6 wickets	^[62]
8	8 July	Glamorgan	St Helen's, Swansea	Won on faster scoring rate	^[63]
9	15 July	Leicestershire	Grace Road, Leicester	Lost by 4 runs	^[64]
10	22 July	Northamptonshire	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 7 wickets	^[65]
11	5 August	Lancashire	Old Trafford, Manchester	Lost by 8 wickets	^[66]
12	12 August	Sussex	Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare	Won by 75 runs	^[67]
13	19 August	Middlesex	Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood	Won by 28 runs	^[68]
14	26 August	Kent	County Ground, Taunton	Lost by 64 runs	^[69]
15	2 September	Derbyshire	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 55 runs	^[70]
16	9 September	Nottinghamshire	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	Won by 56 runs	^[71]

Player	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	Highest Score	50s
Brian Rose	15	15	484	44.00	81*	4
Ian Botham	9	8	174	29.00	55*	1
Viv Richards	12	12	347	28.91	80	3
Peter Denning	15	15	354	23.60	62	1
Derek Taylor	15	6	47	23.50	14*	0
Mervyn Kitchen	4	3	43	21.50	22	0
Peter Roebuck	11	11	167	20.87	50	1
Graham Burgess	10	6	96	16.00	33	0
Vic Marks	13	11	137	15.22	30	0
Joel Garner	13	10	90	12.85	32	0
Phil Slocombe	6	4	33	11.00	19	0
Keith Jennings	13	5	17	8.50	8*	0
Nigel Popplewell	3	3	14	7.00	8	0
Dennis Breakwell	15	10	57	6.33	29	0
Colin Dredge	8	3	6	6.00	3*	0
Hallam Moseley	3	0	—	—	—	0

Player	Matches	Overs	Wickets	Average	Economy	BBI	4wi
Vic Marks	13	21.3	8	9.87	3.67	3/19	0
Ian Botham	9	61.4	15	15.40	3.74	4/10	1
Joel Garner	13	96.0	16	16.81	2.80	3/16	0
Viv Richards	12	39.1	8	17.00	3.47	2/13	0
Colin Dredge	8	56.3	12	18.50	3.92	3/21	0
Hallam Moseley	3	21.0	3	21.66	3.09	1/18	0
Dennis Breakwell	15	83.0	13	25.00	3.91	3/20	0
Keith Jennings	13	88.0	13	26.92	3.97	3/21	0
Graham Burgess	10	64.0	8	30.50	3.81	2/19	0
Nigel Popplewell	3	21.0	1	41.00	1.95	1/7	0

Benson & Hedges Cup: Group A
Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	BowSR
Somerset (DSQ)	4	3	1	0	9	33.321
Worcestershire*	4	3	1	0	9	36.920
Glamorgan*	4	2	1	1	7	36.040
Gloucestershire†	4	1	3	0	3	53.100
Minor Counties South†	4	0	3	1	1	55.692
Teams marked * progressed to the next stage of the competition. Team marked † were eliminated from the competition. Source: CricketArchive^[74]

No.	Stage	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Ref
1	Group A	5, 7 May	Glamorgan	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 5 wickets	^[75]
2	Group A	12, 14 May	Gloucestershire	Phoenix County Ground, Bristol	Won by 7 wickets	^[76]
3	Group A	19 May	Minor Counties South	County Ground, Taunton	Won by 8 wickets	^[77]
4	Group A	23, 24 May	Worcestershire	County Ground, New Road, Worcester	Lost by 10 wickets	^[78]

Player	First class							List A							Refs
Player	Matches	Innings	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s	Matches	Innings	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s	Refs
Batsmen
PW Denning	22	35	1,222	106	42.13	2	7	23	22	558	90*	29.36	0	2	^[81]^[82]
MJ Kitchen	7	10	146	36	14.60	0	0	5	4	56	22	18.66	0	0	^[83]^[84]
M Olive	1	2	77	39	38.50	0	0								^[85]
IVA Richards	16	26	1,043	156	40.11	3	4	19	18	661	117	38.88	1	4	^[86]^[87]
PM Roebuck	23	37	1,273	89	47.14	0	11	19	17	309	50	23.76	0	1	^[88]^[89]
BC Rose	21	33	1,317	133	41.15	2	8	23	23	701	88*	41.23	0	5	^[90]^[91]
PA Slocombe	23	38	956	103*	27.31	1	6	8	6	73	38	14.60	0	0	^[92]^[93]
All-rounders
IT Botham	11	15	487	120	34.78	1	1	17	12	236	55*	26.22	0	1	^[94]^[95]
D Breakwell	24	31	510	54*	23.18	0	2	23	13	106	36*	9.63	0	0	^[96]^[97]
GI Burgess	1	2	20	11	10.00	0	0	13	8	147	50*	21.00	0	1	^[98]^[99]
JW Lloyds	4	7	117	43	16.71	0	0								^[100]
VJ Marks	24	33	894	93	37.25	0	7	19	15	184	30	18.40	0	0	^[101]^[102]
NFM Popplewell	7	10	119	37	13.22	0	0	3	3	14	8	7.00	0	0	^[103]^[104]
Wicket-keepers
T Gard	4	5	71	51*	71.00	0	1								^[105]
DJS Taylor	20	20	318	50*	31.80	0	1	23	8	50	14*	16.66	0	0	^[106]^[107]
Bowlers
CH Dredge	11	11	215	55	35.83	0	1	13	3	6	3*	6.00	0	0	^[108]^[109]
J Garner	14	10	106	53	17.66	0	1	20	12	126	32	15.75	0	0	^[110]^[111]
DR Gurr	4	2	31	20*	—	0	0								^[112]
KF Jennings	19	11	19	11*	3.16	0	0	20	6	24	8*	8.00	0	0	^[113]^[114]
HR Moseley	8	5	25	15	8.33	0	0	5	0	—	—	—	0	0	^[115]^[116]

Player	First class							List A						Refs
Player	Matches	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5wi	10wm	Matches	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	4wi	Refs
IT Botham	11	257.4	26	32.53	6/81	1	0	17	136.4	24	18.41	4/10	1	^[94]^[95]
D Breakwell	24	567.3	47	27.89	6/41	1	0	23	121.0	16	27.12	3/20	0	^[96]^[97]
GI Burgess	1	5.0	0	—	—	0	0	13	90.0	13	24.46	3/25	0	^[98]^[99]
CH Dredge	11	251.0	25	30.36	4/40	0	0	13	94.3	16	19.87	3/21	0	^[108]^[109]
J Garner	14	393.1	55	13.83	6/80	4	0	20	167.2	39	10.33	6/29	3	^[110]^[111]
DR Gurr	4	71.0	2	94.50	2/36	0	0							^[112]
KF Jennings	19	245.3	20	31.00	4/25	0	0	20	148.1	24	20.54	4/11	1	^[113]^[114]
JW Lloyds	4	6.0	0	—	—	0	0							^[100]
VJ Marks	24	568.4	57	27.73	6/33	4	0	19	46.3	12	11.75	3/19	0	^[101]^[102]
HR Moseley	8	196.4	31	15.96	6/52	2	0	5	31.0	3	30.33	1/18	0	^[115]^[116]
NFM Popplewell	7	102.0	6	45.16	3/43	0	0	3	21.0	1	41.00	1/7	0	^[103]^[104]
IVA Richards	16	77.3	5	54.00	2/47	0	0	19	54.1	9	23.11	2/13	0	^[86]^[87]
PM Roebuck	23	6.0	1	22.00	1/2	0	0							^[88]
BC Rose	21	5.0	0	—	—	0	0							^[90]

Player	First class		List A		Refs
Player	Matches	Catches	Matches	Catches	Refs
IT Botham	11	11	17	11	^[94]^[95]
D Breakwell	24	9	23	6	^[96]^[97]
GI Burgess	1	0	13	3	^[98]^[99]
PW Denning	22	18	23	3	^[81]^[82]
CH Dredge	11	5	13	1	^[108]^[109]
J Garner	14	4	20	1	^[110]^[111]
DR Gurr	4	0			^[112]
KF Jennings	19	9	20	3	^[113]^[114]
MJ Kitchen	7	8	5	1	^[83]^[84]
JW Lloyds	4	2			^[100]
VJ Marks	24	8	19	4	^[101]^[102]
HR Moseley	8	1	5	0	^[115]^[116]
NFM Popplewell	7	1	3	3	^[103]^[104]
M Olive	1	0			^[85]
IVA Richards	16	13	19	7	^[86]^[87]
PM Roebuck	23	22	19	2	^[88]^[89]
BC Rose	21	11	23	6	^[90]^[91]
PA Slocombe	23	8	8	1	^[92]^[93]

Player	First class			List A			Refs
Player	Matches	Catches	Stumpings	Matches	Catches	Stumpings	Refs
T Gard	4	6	3				^[105]
DJS Taylor	20	30	10	23	20	8	^[106]^[107]

Player	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	Highest Score
Viv Richards	3	2	48	48.00	29
Peter Denning	4	4	92	46.00	40*
Peter Roebuck	4	2	82	41.00	44
Brian Rose	4	4	54	18.00	35
Mervyn Kitchen	1	1	13	13.00	13
Ian Botham	4	1	0	0.00	0
Vic Marks	4	3	38	—	29*
Dennis Breakwell	4	1	36	—	36*
Colin Dredge	4	0	—	—	—
Joel Garner	3	0	—	—	—
Keith Jennings	3	0	—	—	—
Hallam Moseley	2	0	—	—	—
Derek Taylor	4	0	—	—	—

Player	Matches	Overs	Wickets	Average	Economy	BBI	4wi
Joel Garner	3	28.2	6	7.00	1.48	3/23	0
Keith Jennings	3	20.1	5	7.80	1.93	4/11	1
Vic Marks	4	21.0	4	10.00	1.90	2/18	0
Dennis Breakwell	4	18.0	3	12.66	2.11	2/16	0
Ian Botham	4	32.0	5	15.60	2.43	3/23	0
Colin Dredge	4	26.0	4	16.00	2.46	2/22	0
Hallam Moseley	2	10.0	0	—	2.60	—	0