[5] When the university cricket season was over, he joined Somerset and had further success, taking five Lancashire wickets in the first innings (and nine in the match) at Weston-super-Mare.
[8] But he won a second blue in the university match and made his highest first-class score, an undefeated 46, in the first innings of the game, enabling Oxford to recover from a middle-order collapse.
[10] But competition for places in the Somerset side was more intense in 1977 following the recruitment of the West Indian fast bowler Joel Garner, and Gurr also started to have problems with his bowling action, which resulted in a large number of wides.
In 1978, Wisden reported, "Gurr's great potential was, unhappily, not available until the end [of the season], when he had manfully overcome a shattering loss of confidence".
[2] In his entry in the first-ever Cricketers' Who's Who book in 1980, Gurr wrote: "I will probably spend the 1980 season playing part-time, acting as stand-by.