Just a few weeks in the past Somerset followers may need been daring to dream that 2026 would lastly be the 12 months their staff would flip from almost males into County Championship winners.
With two video games to go, Somerset have been prime of the desk by 4 factors. Future was of their fingers as they sought to win their first-ever Championship trophy.
However a second defeat of the season at the hands of Yorkshire, this time at Headingley, of their penultimate sport was like a sledgehammer to the guts of followers and meant Somerset handed over management to eventual winners Warwickshire to clinch glory within the remaining match on Saturday.
Somerset keep as cricket’s perennial runners-up for an additional 12 months, with this their sixth second-place end within the Championship since 2010 as they continue to be one among simply three counties to by no means raise the trophy.
Whereas the Yorkshire defeat on 18 September sealed their destiny, senior figures within the membership pointed as an alternative to an absence of ruthlessness earlier within the marketing campaign when citing the moments the place the trophy slipped by way of their fingers.
“Two weeks in the past we have been in an ideal place to win the factor that we have been making an attempt arduous to do for a really very long time,” captain Lewis Gregory advised BBC Radio Somerset.
“However it’s in all probability a few video games in the midst of the 12 months which are the defining moments.
“There have been two video games we have been in a extremely great place – in all probability did not present the ruthlessness that we wanted, to place us able the place we have been the one staff that might win.”
