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| Venue | County Ground, Taunton on 30th, 31st August, 1st September 1897 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 5 |
| Toss | Hampshire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | J Lillywhite, T Mycroft |
| Close of play day 1 | Somerset (1) 32/2 (Palairet 12*, Roe 9*) |
| Close of play day 2 | No play |
| Hampshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *EG Wynyard | c Palairet b Tyler | 42 | |||||
| VA Barton | b Robson | 41 | |||||
| AS Webb | lbw b Woods | 26 | |||||
| EC Lee | b Hedley | 22 | |||||
| AJL Hill | c and b Tyler | 0 | |||||
| C Heseltine | b Tyler | 14 | |||||
| DA Steele | b Tyler | 10 | |||||
| +C Robson | c and b Hedley | 7 | |||||
| RA Bennett | not out | 11 | |||||
| H Baldwin | b Robson | 10 | |||||
| WF Light | b Nichols | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (16 b, 2 lb) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 73.3 overs) | 202 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-73, 2-115, 3-124, 4-125, 5-145, 6-165, 7-175, 8-176, 9-197, 10-202 (73.3 ov) | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hedley | 22 | 5 | 46 | 2 | - | - | |
| Tyler | 23 | 0 | 69 | 4 | - | - | |
| Robson | 15 | 6 | 25 | 2 | - | - | |
| Woods | 12 | 1 | 44 | 1 | - | - | |
| Nichols | 1.3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | - | |
| Somerset first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| LCH Palairet | not out | 12 | |||||
| GB Nichols | b Baldwin | 6 | |||||
| VT Hill | b Heseltine | 5 | |||||
| WN Roe | not out | 9 | |||||
| CE Dunlop | did not bat | ||||||
| *SMJ Woods | did not bat | ||||||
| G Fowler | did not bat | ||||||
| +AE Newton | did not bat | ||||||
| WC Hedley | did not bat | ||||||
| E Robson | did not bat | ||||||
| EJ Tyler | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 15 overs) | 32 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13, 2-20 | |||||||
| Hampshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Heseltine | 7 | 2 | 11 | 1 | - | - | |
| Baldwin | 7 | 1 | 15 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hill | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |