Final Spell For Somerset
Andrews rejoined Somerset for 1946, the first post-war season of Championship cricket. His season was mixed with 7-66 against Leicestershire at Melton Mowbray and 8-25 against Hampshire at Portsmouth but overall took just 68 wickets for Somerset. His batting was also disappointing. against the Indians at Taunton he and Bertie Buse took 5 wickets each and dismissed the Indians for 64, a match Somerset won by an innings.
1947 was his last season for Somerset, a season mostly spent as twelfth man. Against Worcestershire at Worcester the home side need just 126 to win but Andrews took 7-44 and Worcestershire were left on 93-9 off 42 overs in a drawn match. He scored his last half-century with 52* against Hampshire at Bournemouth when he and Horace Hazell put on 74 for the last wicket. Appropriately his final match for Somerset was at Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare. He was released at the end of the season.
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