THE turning of the year heralds the start of a new cricket season and for fans of Somerset County Cricket Club 2025 will be unlike any other.
Not only does this year see Somerset celebrating 150 years since it was formed at Sidmouth CC, but will for the first time see the county fielding both a men’s and a women’s professional team. Women’s cricket has grown at such a pace that few people would have predicted that 25 years into the 21st century it’s has parity with the men’s game.
Since Somerset were first formed the one competition they have never won is the County Championship in which they have ended as runners up, on several occasions but they have never lifted the blue riband trophy.
Somerset will be hoping to get their campaign off to a winning start and the men’s team start their season with a home County Championship fixture against Worcestershire on Friday, 4th April. The Black Pear county were promoted from the second division at the end of last season, so assuming the weather stays kind Lewis Gregory’s team would like to think they can start with a win.T
he Cidermen then play three successive away matches in the four day competition before returning home to Taunton to host Essex on Friday 2nd May.
Somerset Women’s team compete in three different one day competitions in 2025 and they start their campaign with a Metro Bank One Day Cup match against Surrey away on Wednesday, 23rd April. Somerset Women open their home fixtures with a 50 over Metro Bank Cup game against Lancashire on Sunday, 27th April, before three days later they host Essex in the same competition.
They start their Vitality T20 Women’s County Cup campaign with a home match against their Durham counterparts on Saturday 17th May.
Somerset Men begin their Vitality Blast campaign on Friday 30th May before the start of which Somerset Women host Surrey, the first double header of the season. This is just the start of the 2025 season during which there will be more professional cricket being played at the County Ground than ever before.
Somerset Women have recruited some top class players who will link up with a number of young players.
Last season Somerset Men were losing finalists in the Metro Bank One Day Cup, they reached Finals Day in the Vitality Blast and were in the mix in the Championship almost until the end.