Metrobank Game 7 Away in Norhtamptonshire
By Grockle
August 9 2026
The last away match of the first part of the Metrobank 50 over competition and it has not been very fertile ground for Somerset. They will hope a young side will change that this afternoon as they chase a possible qualifying spot after smashing Surrey on Friday. Lewis Goldsworthy won the toss and will bat first
Metrobank Game 7 v Northamptonshire @ Northampton Sunday 8 August 2026
After the win on Friday against Surrey one wonders who will move or will be rested as we need to win both of our final games to be in with a chance of progressing. Sav Perera was left out of the Friday game as we tried a new openong partnership and although named he is out again for this one along with the very impressive Migael Pretorius - is he being rested?
The side that will bat first after Lewis Goldsworthy won the toss is;
Lammonby, Connell, Goldsworthy (c), Vaughan, Thomas, Lamey, Roberts, Church (w), Shaw, Leach, Ball
No Theedom, no Pretorius and, given our lack of batting assets, no Perera. Somerset stick with the new opening pair and will hope to post a big tiotal for the spin and seam attack to defend.
I'm off to Ruishton for part of the afternoon so I will have to pick up when I get back. The good news it that the opening pair got through the Powerplay at with 11 overs gone they had reached 51 without loss. unfortunately that did not last because in the 12th over went for 22 from 34 balls at 53 for 1 caught by McManus bowled by their version of Leech. A decent start but can we get a decent score and can we defend it away from home?
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type of season
Can we do the kind of damage we seem capable of at Taunton at other team's venues? It hasn't been that way this season to any real extent and we need to win both of our last games to move up from the fifth spot in our section of the tournament. It's that or nothing.
We went with the young team against Surrey and handed them their backsides well and truly but what willl we choose from the 13 man squad for the Sunday game
The squad is;
Parera, Vaughan, Thomas, Lammonby, Connell, Goldsworthy, Church, Lamey, Shaw, Theedom, Roberts, Leach, Ball
No Migael Pretorius and again no Langrdige though he was named in the Surrey squad but not tomorrow. I'm not sure why Miggy is out - it seems strange if he is being rested as he was our best seam bowler on Friday and there are only two important games to go.
The question will be whether we play Jack or not and it will probably mean Josh Shaw will return to the side for experience
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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 2026:08:08:19:18:41 by Grockle.
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Seventy-eight Seasons a Somerset Supporter
They name the same 13-man squad on duty when they lost to Nottinghamshire on Friday: McSweeney (capt.), Bartlett, Chahal, Guthrie, Knight, King, Leech, Louw, McManus, Miller, Procter, van der Merwe, Weatherall.
We may, of course, never know
Perera’s absence is a complete mystery. I thought he was doing very nicely..
Ho hum.
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