Monthly Archives: July 2004

Wellington 2nd XI 174 All Out – Taunton St Andrews ‘A’ 167

Wellington 2nd XI recorded a surprise 7 run victory at Taunton St Andrews in an exciting encounter after heavy defeats in the last two outings. St Andrews were 12 points behind leaders Minehead having previously lost just one match this season. The win by Wellington still leaves them 155 points behind the Saints

Mark Bushen decided to ask the visitors to bat first on one of the hottest afternoons of the season and Chris Close announced his arrival with a boundary through the covers of the first ball of the innings. Simon Burge soon captured his first wicket and ex St Andrews batsman Barry Salter featured in a stand of 32 with Close in 10 overs before being bowled. Burge claimed his second wicket as Close (35) fell LBW after hitting his highest score of the season -an innings that included 5 boundaries.

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Wellington 238-5 – Taunton Outcasts 179-8

Mark Salter opted to bat first on a hot, sunny day and this proved to be the right decision as he and Rob Moysey added 93 for the first wicket against some pretty bland Outcasts bowling, indeed Warren and Pedler delivered 24 overs on the reel without any success and this showed the paucity of their bowling resources.

Moysey was the first to pass 50 and was looking set for a large personal total when he deflected one to the backward point and Outcasts had their first success. Not that this ruffled Salter and his new partner Stuart Currall who proceeded to add exactly 100 for the second wicket.

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Wellington Midweek XI 209-5 – The Journeymen 144-5

Wellington had much the better of the draw that resulted from their game with The Journeymen last Monday as the visitors were over sixty runs adrift when stumps were drawn.

Wellington were put into bat and through Rob Moysey and Thom Trott a solid 21 was added for the first wicket before Trott was excellently caught and bowled by Hayes for 12, although in the process Hayes injured himself and was to take little further part in the game.

Moysey found his rhythm and progressed to 36 before fencing at one and been caught behind.
Paul Short was building an innings all the time and after a composed start he took the attack to the Journeymen and conjured up an innings of 48.

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Club Day Report

Possibly the best Club Day ever was enjoyed by Wellington CC on Sunday 25th July when fine weather, a great attendance and first-class meal at lunchtime, an entertaining game of cricket and the return of the evening barbecue made for a day’s premium entertainment that had something in it for all the members, vice-presidents, sponsors, guests and friends of the club who were in attendance.

The day started with a demonstration of ‘Kwik-Cricket’ from some of the members of the club’s Under 11 and Under 13 teams. This is a form of the game that does not use a hard ball and is an ideal way of introducing the game to a young player.

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Minehead 2nd XI 294-4 – Wellington 2nd XI 60

For the second week running Wellington 2nd XI were totally outclassed by the unbeaten top of the table Minehead.This was Wellingtons highest ever defeat and Bosley struck a flamboyant 147 not out and Azuradin captured 4 wickets in successive balls to leave the home sides reply in tatters.

Bob Trott, who won the toss, could not have anticipated the run feast that was to follow as the visitors struggled against the opening attack Unfortunately Adrian Lee was forced to retire after turning his ankle having conceded just a single from his first 4 overs. Chris Rudd, who replaced him, bowled a beauty with his first delivery to dismiss Swallow.In his next over he trapped Sully (9) LBW. Bob Trott then took a magnificent catch running backwards from mid off to remove Clark for 14. The visitors were reeling with the total at 38 for 3 in 14 overs.

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Street Sunday XI 242-7 – Wellington Sunday XI 199-9

Two individual innings of pure brilliance were the main points to come out of Wellington’s visit to Street last Sunday afternoon which saw the home team win by 43 runs and complete the friendly double over the Red and Blacks.

Street opted to bat first on a damp track that was still showing the effects of the recent wet weather, but this did not have any bearing on their progress as Bartlett and W.Wall added 124 for the opening wicket without much bother at all. Bartlett, who won the 1st XI league meeting for Street the previous day, made the fourth ever highest individual score against Wellington in friendly competition in making 140no and batting through Street’s innings. His partner made 47 before falling leg before to Alec Short who bowled some tidy medium pace as he had a day off from keeping.

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Wellington 120 All Out – Street 121-9

Wellington nearly pulled off the great comeback as Somerset League Division One leaders Street were given the fright of their lives at Courtland Road last weekend, collapsing spectacularly and, in the end, limping over the finishing line.

On a damp track the toss was going to be vital and the visitors called correctly and had no hesitation in asking Wellington to bat first. Mark Salter and Rob Moysey added 20 for the first wicket without any hint of the alarms that would come later. Moysey was caught behind off of the accurate Higgs who took 3-13 in 12 overs, eight of which were maidens and then the collapse started as Wellington careered to 58-7 and an early finish looked on the cards.

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Bridgwater 3rd XI 279-7 – Wellington 2nd XI 119

Wellington 2nd XI bowlers took at pasting at Bridgwater to concede 279 runs in the allotted 45 overs. Bob Trott, who won the toss, made numerous changes to the bowling rota but to little avail. Wood showed his intentions immediately and slammed 7 fours in an opening stand of 80 in just 11 overs. He was bowled in Adrian Lee’s first over with a ball that cut in off the track.

The quick outfield and short boundaries contributed to the high scoring rate as Kit Barrington and Troman added further 108 in 18 overs. Wellington’s outfielding was sloppy and Troman was dropped off a sharp slip catch in the 4th over. He really made the visitors pay for the error as he followed up his 100 in his previous outing with a further 95.

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Exmouth Sunday XI 217 All out – Wellington Sunday XI 217-9

Looking at the way that Exmouth started it would have seemed that Wellington would be lucky to be chasing anything under 250, but slowly and surely they clawed their way back into the game and in the end ran the Devon Premier League club as tight as it could possibly get as the game ended tied with the scores level after 40 overs each.

Exmouth opted to bat first on the best batting strip that a club can offer and racked up 64 runs without effort, Cavanaugh and Sampson hitting the ball hard and cleanly.
Andy Mitchell ended their merry spree with a good caught and bowled chance as Cavanaugh spooned one up.

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Knapp Sunday XI 195-6 – Wellington Sunday XI 166

The day’s other game saw Knapp visit Courtland Road for a return friendly match and they just had enough in the tank to edge Wellington out by 29 runs.

Phil Nicholls struck early for Wellington as he and Adrian Lee kept it tight early on, but a stand of 134 between Indian player Ershad and Lee Denslow took the visitors to nearly 200 despite Adrian Hearn’s burst of 3-41.

Kevin Crout and Sam Cook put on 68 for Wellington’s first wicket and their was a steady contribution from Barry Salter as well, but Knapp took wickets regularly and despite Adrian Lee’s excellent 36 Wellington were all ou

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