Wellington 2nd XI endured another disappointing day in Division Two of the Somerset League Reserves competition with the bat as the teenage partnership of Alex Sparks and Guy Murray was all that saved the team from been out for a sub-100 total.

The score dipped to 68-7 with Burge taking 5-25 and only Barry Salter, back with Wellington after several years of playing for Taunton St Andrews, with 18 and James Dyke with 22 got any sort of start for Wellington in the top order.
The game was slipping away when Sparks and Murray came together and added 39 for the eighth wicket. Murray made a personal best of 22 and Sparks again batted calmly and collectively and was last man out for 40.

Wellington would need to perform with the ball as they did at Minehead the previous week and Alex Trott, on debut, gave Wellington a great start with a wicket in his first over, but TSA skipper Bushen (43) and Jennings (54) added 81 to dampen Wellington’s enthusiasm.

There was a sting in the tail though as TSA went from 83-1 to 120-5 as Denis Fullstone claimed 2-9, but Wellington were unable to apply enough pressure from this point due to lack of runs, another 30 or 40 runs would have been useful in the circumstances, but Wellington went down by four wickets and it is now four straight losses for the Red and Blacks second string.

They took 12 points from the game and Taunton St Andrews, promoted out of Division Three (SW) last season, took 35 back to the county town with them.