Metro Bank One Day Cup Preview: Somerset v Yorkshire
THE MATCH
Somerset welcome Yorkshire to the Cooper Associates County Ground in the Metro Bank One Day Cup tomorrow (Saturday April 11th).
Tickets for this match are available now!
MATCHDAY INFORMATION
Gates open at 9:30am with play due to start at 10:30am.
Entry to the Cooper Associates County Ground will be via the Jack White Gates (St James Street) and Sir Vivian Richards Gate (Priory Bridge Road) only.
Seating will be available in the following stands:
- Marcus Trescothick Pavilion Lower
- Ondaatje Family Stand
- Ondaatje Alcohol Free Stand
- Gimblett’s Hill (accessible viewing area)
- Colin Atkinson Pavilion
- Somerset Stand Block 1 (subject to demand)
- Somerset Women 1875 Club and Long Room Members will be able to access the Long Room for this fixture.
The concourse behind the Somerset will be closed due to renovation works.
Somerset Men’s Membership cards will NOT grant you access to the venue for this fixture.
Stevie Nicole Brown will be performing in the County Room before play begins.
Bag searches will be in operation and spectators are reminded that no cans, glass or sharp implements will be permitted within the Cooper Associates County Ground.
Members and supporters are not permitted to bring alcohol into Metro Bank One Day Cup fixtures.
For full Ground Regulations please visit the link below:
Ticket buyers can download their online tickets via their SCCC account, and all ticket or Membership collections will be from the Jack White Gates (St James Street).
Due to the busy nature of a matchday, our telephone lines will reopen at 10am on Monday April 13th.
Information on everything that you will need for a matchday at SCCC, including how to download your e-tickets and how to use the SCCC Ticket App can all be found in our Visiting Guide.
CATERING
Food and drink will be available from the County Room in the Colin Atkinson Pavilion.
HOW CAN I KEEP UP TO DATE?
A live stream of the match will be available via this website and on our YouTube channel.
You can also keep up to date via our social media channels.
In addition to this, a report on the day’s play along with quotes will be posted on this website.
Somerset County Cricket Club will also be providing radio ear pieces to enable Members and supporters to enjoy our live ball-by-ball match commentary. These will be available to purchase from Reception in the Marcus Trescothick Pavilion at a cost of £12 and these will last all season.
Radio ear pieces are free of charge for visually impaired Members and supporters.
THE OPPOSITION
YORKSHIRE
Captain: Lauren Winfield-Hill
Head coach: Rich Pyrah
2025 finish: Champions (Tier 2)
2025 highest run-scorer: Ami Campbell (452)
2025 highest wicket-taker: Olivia Thomas (18)
Winter moves: International spin-bowling all-rounders Sarah Glenn (England) and Jess Jonassen (Australia) have signed two-year deals, the latter as an all-format overseas and the former coming from The Blaze. Scotland seamer Hannah Rainey joined on loan from Lancashire late last summer ahead of a permanent move. Another spin-bowling all-rounder Olivia Thomas has been elevated from an Academy to professional contract. Kevin Sharp returns to Yorkshire as an assistant coach.
The big question: How will Yorkshire fare in their first season in Tier 1? They enjoyed a successful Tier 2 campaign last year, winning the Metro Bank One-Day Cup, reaching the final of the Vitality Blast and the quarter-finals of the T20 County Cup. But this summer, it will be a different ball game. Head coach Rich Pyrah and Yorkshire’s management have confidence in the players’ ability but have urged patience.
Player to watch: Vice captain Maddie Ward, 21 years old, can do it all. She can keep wicket, bats in dynamic and inventive fashion, bowls spin when required and is a gun in the field. She even skippered Yorkshire last season when Lauren Winfield-Hill wasn’t available. When she first did it in June, aged 20 years and 133 days, Worksop-born Ward became the county’s second youngest ever captain – female or male.
Final thought: Yorkshire are very much looking at this as a long-term project. Results are not the be-all and end-all this season, across all formats. Development is more important to them. But if they can take a couple of scalps along the way, it would be a real shot in the arm for the White Rose county. And a Roses win against champions Lancashire would be ideal.
TEAM NEWS
Somerset will be without Charlie Dean (unavailable), Mollie Robbins (unavailable) and Emma Corney (knee). However, England Internationals, Heather Knight and Dani Gibson will be available for this match.
Somerset have named the following squad for this fixture:
VIEW FROM THE DRESSING ROOM
Ahead of the match, Somerset Head Coach, Erin Osborne said: “There’s some nice momentum coming out of our practice match at home against Hampshire, so there’s a good buzz around the group. I think they’re seeing how we want to play and there’s a bit of belief amongst the dressing room and there’s a real buy-in to the way we want to play.
“I think you never really know how you’re going until you actually start playing games of cricket. I’m happy with the pre-season we’ve had, and I think we’ve made some really good improvements in how we want to go about playing but you never really know how the preseason’s gone until you actually see outcomes in the game.
“It should be a good match-up against Yorkshire and it’s good that we have Heather and Dani available. To have players of their experience is important for our squad. Just having conversations with players of the calibre of Heather and Dani gives a little bit more belief to the players. I think it potentially frees them up as well, knowing that they can go out and express themselves and play an attacking brand in the knowledge that you’ve still got Heather and Dani in your line-up. To have them available probably just releases a little bit of pressure from our younger players but more importantly it’s about the education piece and the conversations that will hopefully be had on the field and on the sidelines.”
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NEXT MATCH
Somerset’s next match in the Metro Bank One Day Cup is on Sunday April 19th when we take on Lancashire at Trafalgar Road, Southport.
Tickets for this match are on sale now!
