Finals Day record: Winners – 2005, 2023 and 2025
2026 top run-scorer: James Rew – 427
2026 top wicket-taker: Daniel Sams – 19
Group record: Seven wins, five defeats – 2nd in Central & West Group
If there’s one thing Somerset have proved this summer, it’s that you can never write them off.
The defending champions lost four of their opening six matches to leave plenty of doubt about whether they would add to their run of 11 Finals Day appearances – the past five of them in a row.
Somerset fans should not have worried – they won five of their past six, including monster victories over group winners, and semi-final opponents, Northants by a huge 105 runs on the road and by seven wickets with five overs to spare at home.
It all looked to be in vain as they slumped to 82-8 in the 15th over of their chase of 162 to beat Yorkshire at Headingley in Wednesday’s quarter-final.
Then all-rounder Craig Overton produced one of the great T20 Blast innings to help the defending champions pull off an astonishing victory, smashing 79 from 30 balls, including three sixes from the final over in which the visitors required 22 to win.
It keeps alive their hopes of making a fourth consecutive Blast final and becoming the first team to defend their crown.
Skipper Lewis Gregory hit two late sixes to help his side to a second title in three years last September against Hampshire and, before the start of this campaign, he told BBC Radio Somerset: “We’ve been incredibly consistent over five, six, seven years now.
“Then you get to a knockout fixture in Finals Day [and] one or two people coming off can win you a game. We’ve been mightily close to go three in three if you look back.
“It’s a very tough format to be consistent and over 23 years no-one’s defended it so hopefully we can be the first this year.”
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