A little bit of Luckes: Remembering Somerset games in history which went down to the wire
15.03.26, 16:35 Updated 15.03.26, 20:13 4 Minute Read
Kit Harris
In the first of a series of pieces revisiting Somerset's heroes of the past, Kit Harris recalls five close finishes of the 1930s.
The Somerset side of the 1930s rarely looked like champions. In fact, they rarely even looked like winners. Since the turn of the century they had finished in the top half of the County Championship just three times: seventh in 1902, fifth in 1919, and eighth in 1924.
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Kit Harris Kit is a cricket broadcaster, Somerset fan and assistant editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. He is a regular BBC Third Voice and has played international cricket for Iceland.