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The 2025 Women's Golden Apples

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Somerset tied a T20 in Blackpool after needing 13 from the final over.

1. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - The Somerset Cricket Podcast covers the 2025 Women's Golden Apples for Somerset women's cricket. 2. Ian Jeppard hosts with Harry Everett, Matt Kingdom, and Dan, and they compare award picks for Somerset's 2025 women's season. 3. The episode asks which Somerset women delivered the biggest season awards, from player of the year to sparkling cider moment. 4. B. Willis is introduced as a new Somerset women's signing with links to Devon Academy, Gloucestershire, Western Storm, and Somerset Academy. 5. The hosts describe Willis as potentially quick and say she could replace Lauren Fyler in the squad. 6. Amanda-Jade Wellington becomes the Metro Bank 50-over player of the year because she took 19 wickets and scored 282 runs. 7. They note Wellington's 40 average and 139 strike rate, plus her role as a reliable finisher and middle-overs wicket-taker. 8. The panel worries Somerset may not have Wellington next season and ties that concern to the club's wider recruitment plans. 9. Sophie Luff wins the Metro Bank one-day performance award for her 111 against Warwickshire at Edgbaston. 10. The hosts call that Somerset women’s first professional-era hundred and note it came against a bowling attack with international caps. 11. The awards discussion shifts to a collapse-and-error theme, including Fran Wilson and Jess Hazel both running after separate shots in the same over. 12. That mistake sequence is framed as a 'Brain Fart of the Year' nominee because it followed one run-out with another almost identical decision. 13. Another match error is the Blackpool T20 against Lancashire, where Somerset needed 13 from the final over. 14. The hosts describe wides, missed chances, and Sophie Luff errors before Alana King hit the six that tied the match. 15. Molly Robbins wins T20 player of the year after becoming Somerset's leading wicket-taker in the competition. 16. The panel highlights Robbins' 4 for 29 against Warwickshire as the clearest T20 bowling performance and notes her growth from rarely bowling for Western Storm. 17. The tone is conversational, scoreboard-driven, and argumentative, with the three hosts often debating the same shortlist from different angles. 18. The format is an awards round-up that moves from player categories to match moments and then to development themes across the women's squad. 19. Best for Somerset followers tracking 2025 women's squad decisions. 20. Skip if you want a purely narrative cricket story.

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A lively Somerset awards chat with enough cricket detail to keep it worth hearing.

The Somerset Cricket Podcast spends most of this episode on the Women's Golden Apples for 2025, and it is strongest when it keeps its feet on cricket rather than ceremony.

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Press play for Somerset's 2025 women's awards, argued like a proper clubhouse debate.

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