Somerset – GCCC Heritage Trust

Gloucestershire vs Somerset, 1893

Posted on 22/08/202021/08/2020 by Roger Gibbons

As Gloucestershire take on Somerset in a first-class match for the first time since 2007, we look back to August 1893, the last occasion that the two sides met at Cheltenham College in the County Championship and a unique event that occurred

C.J. Barnett

Posted on 17/07/202010/06/2020 by Roger Gibbons

C.J. Barnett: ‘He threw the boldest of bats at the best bowling in the world. He could hook and pull and glance with the best, and was a fine exponent of the cut; yet he was truest master of the off- and cover- drives.’