Somerset County Cricket Club are an English cricket club based in Taunton, Somerset. The club was founded in 1875 after a match between "Gentlemen of Somerset" and "Gentlemen of Devon" in Sidmouth, Devon. Somerset played their first undisputed first-class cricket match in 1882 against Lancashire. After missing the first season of the official County Championship, Somerset was admitted for the second in 1891, and have participated in the competition ever since. Brian Langford holds the record for the greatest number of first-class appearances for Somerset having played 504 times for the club. Only three other players have made more than 400 appearances for Somerset, and no-one has reached the milestone since Langford. Jack White, one of the three, is the club's leading wicket-taker in first-class cricket. Harold Gimblett's tally of 21,142 first-class runs is the most by a Somerset cricketer.
Despite Peter Denning and Graham Rose, both Englishmen, jointly holding the record for most List A appearances for Somerset, it is West Indians that top both the batting and bowling charts. Viv Richards, named by Wisden as the greatest One Day International batsman of all time, holds the record for the most runs in one-day cricket for Somerset. Barbadian Hallam Moseley ranks as the top wicket-taker, claiming 309 wickets in one-day cricket, nine more than England Test cricketer Ian Botham. (Full article...)