Taylor, who enjoyed a stellar start to the year in red-ball cricket, was one of the many Worcestershire bowlers heavily rotated during the start of the 50-over competition at the beginning of this month, as Alan Richardson used the time to manage the workloads oh his bowling artillery.
Taking 43 wickets in Division One of the Rothesay County Championship is no mean feat, but also came at a cost for the 30-year-old, bowling over 340 overs either side of a busy block of Vitality Blast action.
Having timed his run during the group stage of the Metro Bank One Day Cup, Taylor has shown signs of his best form returning, with the likes of Ben Allison, Jack Home, Ben Gibbon, Khurram Shahzad, Adam Finch and Ethan Brookes all enjoying game time over the past month.
However, the fan favourite was quick to add that the rotation amongst the side has not taken away from the quality within the side and says the momentum gathered across the summer has been vital.
“It’s the nature of this One Day Cup competition, I think it allows teams and other clubs to rotate. You get young bowlers in, and we’re blessed with the fact that, other than Hosey, we’ve had a really strong squad for this so it has allowed us to rotate.
“But that doesn’t take away from the quality that others bring and and we know, I thought as especially as a bowling unit, which is where the rotations happened we’ve all stepped up and played parts in different games.”
“I think we have taken that momentum that we had, I thought we had a decent white ball T20 campaign and were unlucky not to go through.
“A couple of close games that go either way and you make it through to a quarter final there.
“But I am so pleased to have carried on playing some good cricket in this competition and be rewarded with a semi-final.”