The Cooper Associates County Ground: cricket results and records

The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton appears in 135 recorded matches, the first on 18 May 2014 and the latest on 2 September 2026. The matches are 80 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 41 in the County Championship, 6 in Twenty20 Internationals, 6 in One Day Internationals and 2 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are Vitality Blast (49 matches), County Championship (41 matches) and NatWest T20 Blast (17 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Somerset (121 matches), Hampshire (16 matches), Surrey (13 matches) and Kent (12 matches).

Of the 135 matches, 114 produced a winner, 20 were drawn and 1 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 670/7 by Somerset against Worcestershire on 4 April 2025.

The lowest completed total is 69 by Somerset against Hampshire on 19 May 2022.

In the 91 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 49 (53.8%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are TB Abell (4,030 runs in 108 innings), T Banton (2,817 runs in 75 innings), JEK Rew (2,421 runs in 53 innings), L Gregory (2,136 runs in 95 innings) and TA Lammonby (2,128 runs in 85 innings).

The leading wicket takers are C Overton (150 wickets), L Gregory (139 wickets), MJ Leach (121 wickets), JH Davey (87 wickets) and BGF Green (59 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 371 by T Banton against Worcestershire on 4 April 2025, 238 by Z Crawley against Somerset on 17 May 2024 and 221 by JEK Rew against Hampshire on 10 July 2023.

The best bowling figures are 7 for 50 by MJ Leach against Durham on 29 August 2024, 7 for 57 by C Overton against Essex on 14 April 2022 and 7 for 69 by MJ Leach against Hampshire on 15 September 2025.

In 80 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 179.6 and the side batting second 164.5.

The first innings of 40 the County Championship matches here averaged 323.1 runs.

The toss is recorded in 135 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 98 (72.6%) and to bat in 37.

Among the 114 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 53 times (46.5%).

Batters at the ground hit 7,769 fours and 1,510 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 10.1 balls; 58.9% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 64%, bowled 17%, lbw 11%, run out 4% and caught and bowled 2% of the 2,417 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 67%, bowled 18%, lbw 11%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 2% of the 2,316 times.

That is 68.7 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2010s (38) and 2020s (97).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (49 matches), County Championship (41 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (17 matches), Vitality Blast Men (14 matches), England Tri-Nation T20 Women's Series (4 matches), World Cup (2 matches), India Women tour of England (2 matches) and Australia Women tour of England (1 matches).