Captain: BG Brocklehurst

Home Grounds used:
County Ground, Taunton; Recreation Ground, Bath; Agricultural Showgrounds, Frome; Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare

Away Grounds visited:
County Ground, New Road, Worcester; County Ground, Northampton; Headingley, Leeds; Courtaulds Ground, Coventry; Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood; St Helen's, Swansea; Grace Road, Leicester; United Services Ground, Portsmouth; Old Trafford, Manchester; County Ground, Chelmsford; Ashley Down Ground, Bristol; Crabble Athletic Ground, Dover; Queen's Park, Chesterfield; Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Championship playing record:
P 28     W 2     D 7     L 19

First-Class playing record:
P 29     W 2     D 8     L 19

Click on these links for the season's First-Class scorecards and results
or First-Class batting averages or First-Class bowling averages or Championship batting averages or Championship bowling averages

28 players appeared in First-Class matches for Somerset in 1953:
J Baker; BG Brocklehurst; HFT Buse; BE Collingwood; JD Currie; CF Davey; DPT Deshon; GHD Evans; PH Fussell; H Gimblett; TA Hall; JH Harris; DL Kitson; BA Langford; J Lawrence; CG Mitchell; J Redman; SS Rogers; R Smith; JD Stenton; HW Stephenson; GG Tordoff; MF Tremlett; MM Walford; M Walker; PB Wight; GES Woodhouse; Yawar Saeed.

10 players made their debut for Somerset in these matches in 1953:
BE Collingwood; JD Currie; CF Davey; GHD Evans; PH Fussell; TA Hall; BA Langford; JD Stenton; PB Wight; Yawar Saeed.