Wellington Cricket Club

Wellington Sunday XI so nearly lost their nine game unbeaten run at WECCC (Somerset Division) side Street last weekend, but they held firm to end up tying what was an excellent game of cricket.

Wellington were put into bat and the way that Richard Das Neves and John Paine started augured well for another large Wellington total on a Sunday, but after a brisk start wickets tumbled despite the trueness of the surface.
Hallows with 3-41 and Hughes with 2-11, each from 8 overs, had wreaked the havoc.
Wellington’s score dwindled to 65-5 before Andy Perry and Chris Kitto started the rebuilding act.
Perry held firm and played some nice straight shots and had made it to 11 before Gerrard got one through his defences.
This brought Sam Cook and Kitto together and they added 50 sparkling runs for the seventh wicket that went a long way to rescuing Wellington’s cause.
Cook was strong on the cut and made it to a fine 28 in the end.
Kitto tucked the ball well to leg in making 47 – the highest score of the Wellington innings.
But the real impetus came from Richard Short and Adrian Lee who clubbed 34 for the ninth wicket and were the runs that salvaged Wellington’s bacon late on.

Wellington had made 203-8 in their forty overs, an excellent comeback from their earlier position.

Wellington’s reply with the ball started somewhat raggedly as J.Linter and Williamson added a cultured 56 for Street’s opening stand as they hit the short ball well.
Richard Short broke the stand at the end of his first over as Adrian Lee accepted a chance at mid-off as Williamson was dismissed.
Richard Das Neves then caught and bowled J.Linter and Wellington were back in business.
Das Neves bowled a delightful spell of off-spin as his eight overs cost just 10 runs.
He played a crucial role at a telling point in the game.
John Paine joined the attack and his left-arm angle and pace halted Street’s charge even though Hallows was building a top knock all the time he was at the crease.
At 119-7 with Paine having bagged two victims Wellington appeared set for victory, but Hughes joined Hallows and they crafted a 47 run eighth wicket stand that gave the Red and Blacks more than just a few problems, but Adrian Lee bowled Hallows for 65 as he returned to the attack to settle the nerves.
However Hughes and P.Linter had other ideas and kept Street’s candle burning as they conjured up a 28 run stand for the ninth wicket. John Paine got P.Linter caught behind courtesy of Sam Cook in the last over and it came down to Street needing two from the last ball to win.
The result was a scrambled leg-bye and a good game was left tied.

Wellington skipper David Derrick suffered a nasty injury late on in the game when he gashed the webbing between the ring finger and little finger on his left hand whilst fielding. The injury required stitches and will keep him out for 2 weeks.