[11] After leaving Taunton School, Abell went on to study a degree in Flexible Combined Honours, Sports Science and French, at the University of Exeter.

[13] He made his Somerset first-class debut against Warwickshire in August 2014, having been called up to the team as a late replacement for the county's overseas player Alviro Petersen who had suffered a knee injury.

[19] After breaking into the Somerset side batting at number four, Abell spent the 2015 season as Marcus Trescothick's regular opening partner.

[20] His season began poorly with a second ball duck in Somerset's opening match against the Durham MCC University side.

[21] Having missed games during the early part of the season due to university commitments, Abell made his first half-century of the season against defending champions Yorkshire, on 25 May 2015, he also took his maiden first-class wicket in the match having Yorkshire bowler Jack Brooks caught behind for 24, he ended the innings with bowling analysis of 1/11 from 4.4 overs.

[29] He made his maiden list A half century against Yorkshire, scoring 80 from 112 balls as Somerset chased down 178 to win by six wickets.

[30] Somerset were knocked out of the 2015 Royal London One-Day Cup in the group stage, with Abell scoring 202 runs in the competition at an average of 33.

[36] Abell spent the 2015–16 winter playing grade cricket for Fremantle District Cricket Club in Western Australia,[37] and had a highly successful winter twice winning the Kookaburra player of the round award,[38] in total across all formats he scored 641 runs at an average of 40 while he took 21 wickets with the ball at an average of 18.

[40] After a disastrous campaign for Somerset in the 2016 t20 Blast, Abell made his Twenty20 debut in a much changed side for their final group match against Hampshire on 29 July 2016.