Well maybe not but would you look at it! I refuse to picture it here but feel free to go onto the official site for an image: www.somersetcountycc.co.uk 

I don’t mean the four-day shirt which Pegasus continues to sponsor but that god-awful abomination in grey with a random red arm. M. J. Baker Foodservices might be delighted to be sponsoring the Somerset kit but they can’t surely be happy with the star trek design.

Admittedly, Somerset shirts will always sell as kids will want to wear the club colours, regardless of how appalling they are but pleeeeeease…who chose this?!

The good news is that this rant is almost over. The bad news is that Somerset have to wear this clothing for an entire season.

My first Somerset kit was maroon and had the word SOMERSET slapped on the front. Ok, it wasn’t exactly awe-inspiring but it didn’t invole instant ridicule (like Lancashire’s shock green effort did as I seem to remember). Maroon and black are still the club colours I believe and yet the last two kits have been blue and red and now this.

You might argue that traditionalist will puff out their cheeks at any ODI kit such is their preference for the red ball game but this one-sleeve business should be boycotted.  Being quite an emotive issue, why not involve the fans who support and part-fund the club to be included in the design in future? That way, a kit as exciting and imaginative as a wet squib of a day in Bridgewater might be avoided….sorry, but a big thumbs down and just to prove I’m not alone, fans on grockles.com have been quick to air their views

“That kit is an abomination. One grey sleeve and one red? Something tells me that replica kit sales are liable to be underwhelming.”

“Dear me, were they designed by the colour blind association? That has to be the worst kit ever. Didn’t Man Utd once complain that playing in grey affected their players and made them play badly? Alec Ferguson soon got shot of that kit.  I hope someone sees sense and does the same here.”