The Somerset captain reports on their match against Hampshire at Mere on Saturday. The final score of 12 – 4 to Somerset looks like a crushing defeat for Hants, but it was far from that, apparently, as many games were keenly contested until late on. However, the fact that Somerset out-graded their opponents by, on average, 11 points on every board, made it likely that the stronger team on paper would pull through.
The details were as follows:
| Brd | SOMERSET | Grd | HAMPSHIRE | Grd | ||
| 1 | Jack Rudd | 224 | 1 | 0 | Tunks, Dominic R | 197 |
| 2 | Peter E Chaplin | 189 | ½ | ½ | McDougall, William M | 189 |
| 3 | Andrew F Footner | 187 | ½ | ½ | Bellers, Chris J | 185 |
| 4 | Matthew J Payne | 186 | 1 | 0 | Marsh, Roger DW | 176 |
| 5 | Mike Richardt | 184 | 1 | 0 | Fowler, David W | 173 |
| 6 | Patryk Krzyzanowski | 182 | ½ | ½ | Knox, Stuart W | 170 |
| 7 | David P Littlejohns | 178 | 1 | 0 | Davis, Timothy | 167 |
| 8 | David Painter-Kooiman | 178 | 0 | 1 | McLeod, Fraser N | 166 |
| 9 | Barry Morris | 175 | 1 | 0 | Jones, Gareth Aneurin | 158 |
| 10 | James Byrne | 165 | 1 | 0 | Priest, Christopher PA | 158 |
| 11 | David Peters | 164 | 0 | 1 | Thompson, David F | 156 |
| 12 | Gerry N Jepps | 163 | 1 | 0 | Ashmore, Roy E | 147 |
| 13 | Andrew M Gregory | 158 | ½ | ½ | Chapman, Timothy J | 144 |
| 14 | Darren Freeman | 158 | 1 | 0 | Chilton, James I | 143 |
| 15 | Chris S Purry | 152 | 1 | 0 | Moore, Gillian A | 142 |
| 16 | Maciej Blocinski | U/G | 1 | 0 | LeFevre, Stephen D | 142 |
| totals | 2785 | 12 | 4 | 2613 |