Somerset lose all three titles in space of a week after losing the Metro Bank One-Day Cup to Glamorgan in the finals.
Somerset lost the Metro Bank One-Day Cup finals to Glamorgan, the latter winning it for the first time since 2021.
Glamorgan triumphed against Somerset and the inclement weather in a match that was pragmatistically shortened from fifty overs-a-side to twenty in order to maximise the likelihood of a result.
As Glamorgan’s winning batter, Sam Northeast, put it, it was “the right thing to do in the circumstances.” Following Surrey’s victory in the County Championship on Friday and their defeat in the T20 Blast final at Edgbaston, Somerset’s captain, Sean Dickson, echoed that sentiment, saying his main feeling was pride even though his team had lost three titles in a week.
“We hadn’t played any Twenty20 for a while so it was strange coming into a 20-over contest.” Northeast told the ECB Reporters Network, after top-scoring for his team with 63 not out from 49 balls. “We didn’t even know we were going to get a game at all. So the change from 50 to 20 overs, about 40 minutes before, meant we had to adapt as best as possible.
“In the event, it started to rain just as we were coming off, so somebody was clearly looking down on us. I’m glad they did make the change. It was the right thing to do in the circumstances, to get the game on.”
Somerset had made the early running after winning the toss and opting to bowl. Alfie Ogborne, their 21-year-old left-armer seamer, captured two wickets in his first over. But at crucial parts of the match, especially when Northeast, Billy Root, and Timm van der Gugten were speeding through the latter portion of their innings to add 115 in the last ten overs, the team’s inexperience was revealed.
Ten players who had participated in this year’s Men’s Hundred. This took place in tandem with the group stages, were absent for Somerset. They choose to support the players who had led them to the championship.
Jack Leach, England’s left-arm spinner, was their most experienced player on the day. But he did not receive a bowl due to the wet weather. List A regulation fields that restricted the number of outfielders during the middle overs.
“As a county, we’ve ended up winning nothing when we would have liked to finish with at least one or two trophies,” Dickson said. “But the bottom line is that we have just competed for three trophies. And we are really proud as a squad that we have been able to do that.
“In this competition, we have resisted the temptation to bring back guys that we lost to the Hundred. So I’m hugely proud that this squad in particular made it all the way to the final.
“And we were much happier today to be able to go out and try to win on the field. Rather than have had a total washout and shared the trophy. No one wants to share a trophy, everyone wants a bash at trying to be a winner.