The County Ground, Taunton: cricket results and records

The County Ground, Taunton appears in 195 recorded matches, the first on 26 June 2011 and the latest on 24 September 2026. The matches are 86 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 82 in the County Championship, 17 in One Day Internationals, 8 in Twenty20 Internationals and 2 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are Vitality Blast (49 matches), County Championship (42 matches) and Specsavers County Championship (26 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Somerset (168 matches), Hampshire (21 matches), Surrey (19 matches) and England (18 matches).

Of the 195 matches, 157 produced a winner, 36 were drawn, 1 were tied and 1 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 731 by Somerset against Surrey on 24 September 2026.

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

In the 110 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 55 (50.0%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are TB Abell (6,136 runs in 165 innings), JC Hildreth (4,175 runs in 119 innings), T Banton (3,074 runs in 84 innings), L Gregory (3,067 runs in 146 innings) and JEK Rew (2,422 runs in 54 innings).

The leading wicket takers are MJ Leach (259 wickets), L Gregory (234 wickets), C Overton (229 wickets), JH Davey (114 wickets) and J Overton (85 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 371 by T Banton against Worcestershire on 4 April 2025, 307 by TB Abell against Surrey on 24 September 2026 and 238 by Z Crawley against Somerset on 17 May 2024.

The best bowling figures are 8 for 85 by MJ Leach against Essex on 19 August 2018, 7 for 32 by GJ Batty against Somerset on 28 May 2016 and 7 for 37 by KA Maharaj against Somerset on 4 September 2018.

In 16 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 212.6 and the side batting second 189.1.

In 8 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 178.8 and the side batting second 143.9.

In 86 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 178.5 and the side batting second 164.5.

The first innings of 81 the County Championship matches here averaged 320.1 runs.

The toss is recorded in 195 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 124 (63.6%) and to bat in 71.

Among the 157 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 74 times (47.1%).

Batters at the ground hit 13,394 fours and 1,947 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 11.2 balls; 58.5% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 61%, bowled 18%, lbw 13%, run out 3% and caught and bowled 3% of the 3,969 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 63%, bowled 18%, lbw 14%, caught and bowled 3% and stumped 2% of the 3,827 times.

That is 78.7 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2010s (97) and 2020s (98).

The competitions that have used the ground are Vitality Blast (49 matches), County Championship (42 matches), Specsavers County Championship (26 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (23 matches), LV= County Championship (14 matches), Vitality Blast Men (14 matches), ICC Women's World Cup (7 matches) and England Tri-Nation T20 Women's Series (4 matches).