Captain: BC Rose

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

Away Grounds visited:
The University Parks, Oxford; County Ground, Southampton; Old Trafford, Manchester; County Ground, Hove; Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood; County Ground, New Road, Worcester; St Helen's, Swansea; Grace Road, Leicester; Abbeydale Park, Sheffield; Cheriton Road Sports Ground, Folkestone; Phoenix County Ground, Bristol; Edgbaston, Birmingham

Championship playing record:
P 22     W 10     D 10     L 2

First-Class playing record:
P 24     W 11     D 11     L 2

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

18 players appeared in First-Class matches for Somerset in 1981:
IT Botham; D Breakwell; PW Denning; CH Dredge; J Garner; KF Jennings; JW Lloyds; VJ Marks; HR Moseley; M Olive; RL Ollis; NFM Popplewell; IVA Richards; PM Roebuck; BC Rose; N Russom; PA Slocombe; DJS Taylor.

1 player made a debut for Somerset in these matches in 1981:
RL Ollis.