Everybody at Somerset County Cricket Club has hailed the Queens Golden Jubilee Day as a great success.

From the time that the day began in the morning with the Jubilee Service at St James Church, where John Barclay was the guest preacher to the time that the last ball was bowled, from which Steffan Jones could sadly only manage to score two runs, everyone who attended enjoyed the day.

Thankfully the weather was perfect for such an event, in fact too hot for the club's new dragon mascot who on a couple of occasions had to sit in the shade to get his energy back! The large a crowd of nearly 5000 people helped to make the occasion one to remember.

The County Ground also looked a picture, with celebratory flags flying all around the ground and bunting adorning the front of the Colin Atkinson Pavilion.

Before the start of the match the players and the crowd all gave three cheers for the Queen, and during the tea interval the fifty recipients of the Golden Jubilee awards were presented with their medals.

Somerset chief executive Peter Anderson was delighted with the Golden Jubilee Day and this morning told me: "What a fantastic cricket match to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. As always there had to be a loser, and it's just a pity that it had to be Somerset, though the boys played well chasing a very big target."

The chief concluded: "On behalf of the club I would like to thank everybody who attended match and everybody who helped in anyway to make it such a success, cricket was the winner on the day."

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