Somerset chief executive Peter Anderson received an interesting picture postcard in his mail earlier this week.

The picture postcard had been sent to the Somerset boss by a London based family who were holidaying in Greece, who had written to say how thrilled they were that Somerset had won their recent Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy semi final encounter with Kent.

The card went on to say that one of their great grandfathers had played for Somerset back in the 1880's and that they were still in possession of his county cap.

The great grandfather's Somerset cap occupied pride of place in the family home on top of the television set, and the couple attributed the Cidermen's amazing victory over Kent to it's presence above the screen.

Great grandfather's cap had brought Somerset good fortune in the semi finals and it was their intention to leave it in place for the final on August 31st in the hope that it would act as the lucky omen again.

Mr Anderson told me: "Great grandfather's cap is now well into it's second century, and it would be interesting to know who he was and how many times that he played for the county back in the years before we were granted first class status."

He continued: "The only trouble is that I can't read the signature on the card, and even if I could it wouldn't tell us who great grandfather was."

The Somerset boss would be very interested to hear from the couple who sent the card to him from Greece, and just like all Somerset supporters hopes that the cap brings the county good fortune in the Lord's final against Yorkshire.

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