Jordan DeSilva refused to take all the credit after captaining Somerset to their biggest Cup Match victory since 1948.

“Everyone talks about me being a history maker, but it’s this whole team,” DeSilva said. “The team are the history makers.

“I have a great bunch of guys and I commended every single person in that changing room from coaching staff, managers, players and everybody for how we all came together.

“I’m just happy to win and the two-to-one [innings victory] is a bonus.”

The holders and hosts won by an innings and 34 runs — their biggest win over St George’s since their innings and 11-run triumph 70 years ago, and DeSilva’s first as captain.

“To win as captain is a serious feeling,” DeSilva said. “I won twice as a player but it was a surreal feeling when that last wicket fell today.”

DeSilva hailed the record 153-run first-wicket partnership between Terryn Fray and Chris Douglas that laid the foundation for Somerset’s first-innings score of 378 for nine declared.

“As a captain, when you win the toss and bat, that’s what you want to see,” DeSilva said. “You want to see a good start and those two showed their class like they always do.”

DeSilva’s decision to bat ultimately proved a good one.

“We were 50/50 on what we wanted to do because fielding first has worked for us,” he said.

“But the guys said ‘you know what, we are not going to find a better batting track than that’ and at the end of the day our batsmen went out there to bat and then batted. It’s as simple as that.”

Somerset enforced the follow-on after dismissing St George’s for 121 before lunch on the second day and then dismissed them again for 223 with 11.1 overs remaining in the match.

Dion Stovell, the off spinner, led Somerset’s bowling attack with match figures of seven for 79 while Malachi Jones claimed five for 50 and captain DeSilva three for 40.

“It is hard to get a two for one because you have to bowl consecutively but we did it today,” DeSilva said. “It was a flat track so we knew it wouldn’t be easy, and so bowling-wise we did it the hard way and I cannot commend my bowlers enough for getting sixteen wickets today.”

DeSilva admitted he was worried that his team might have blown their chance for victory after dropping some catches late in the match with St George’s trying to salvage a draw.

“I think most of us thought we had blown our chance with a couple of dropped chances and what an innings Onias [Bascome] played,” DeSilva said. “That was an innings, and give St George’s credit because they didn’t give up and made us fight for it.”