Lewis looks back on 2025
2025 was another successful year for Club Captain, Lewis Gregory.
Here, he looks back on this summer’s campaigns.
Winning the Vitality Blast in 2025 has to be the highlight of any season and two wins in three years, with another final in between, just shows that in the last few summers our white ball cricket has been phenomenal.
We gave a pretty dominant display in the Blast and only lost three games across the campaign, which is incredible consistency in the short format of the game.
Winning trophies is hard to do, so to win at Edgbaston again was a massive highlight for us and hopefully we are building a team and a squad who know how to win.
We had another pretty good year in red ball cricket. Again, we got off to a difficult start and after the first few games if you had said that we would finish in third place people wouldn’t have believed you. However, I think that in the middle period and in September the guys really found their feet and got a bit of momentum going into the back end of the season.
There was a lot of good cricket and some good performances throughout the summer, but also some things that we can tidy up on for next year.
The T20 quarter final against Warwickshire was the standout memory for me and I thought that we were dead and buried. However, Dicko (Sean Dickson) went out and played the innings he did in a pressure situation. That was the best that I’ve seen in a game of cricket that I have been playing in.
Finals Day at Edgbaston is the best one to be involved with as a county cricketer and it never disappoints.
We came through some tough moments throughout the summer and none more so than in the knockout games. Pepsi’s (Tom Kohler Cadmore) innings in the semi got us up to a slightly above par score and then the way that we bowled was outstanding. Then Smeedy’s knock in the final in a pressure situation chasing the highest total there has ever been in the Blast made it a very special day.
We are so lucky to be so incredibly well supported. We sell out nearly all our home T20 games and teams don’t like coming to Taunton to play because they know that we are very successful on our home ground. It’s a tough place to play because we are a very strong T20 outfit plus the fans get behind us, which I think shows in the way that we go about our game.
Something that we seem to do really well is put ourselves in tough positions, but we come good in the end. Even in the Championship game against Essex at home, which was the turning point of the red ball season, chasing 327 in the fourth innings looked like a lot of runs when we were 78 for five.
James Rew then played a brilliant innings along with Craig Overton to get us over the line.
It was a pretty good Championship campaign but there are a few things that we’re going to have to look at for 2026. We will look at how we can start our red ball campaign better and try to get ahead of the curve.
We know that as soon as our wickets start assisting the spinners through the middle and back end of the season that we’ve got the best spinner in the country and we are going to be a handful, so if we can start slightly better then hopefully we will be there or thereabouts again.
When I was asked to take over the captaincy a couple of years ago I’d had a few years doing the job in the T20 and was a bit unsure about it. However, I knew we had a bunch of guys who could get us into a place where we could compete in all formatsÂ
I’ve been lucky enough to have some very talented cricketers to help me captain and that’s not going to change next year which is really exciting. We’ve got a squad who can compete across all formats and hopefully we can do that and lift some more trophies in 2026.
