Wellington Cricket Club

A most effective all-round Wellington Midweek XI performance saw a third successive win over The Journeymen was recorded by the large margin of 88 runs as the batsmen scored their runs at a good rate that was in excess of five runs per over and all the bowlers employed did their job when they were asked to join the attack.

Rupert Green opted to bat on winning the toss and he joined Richard Das Neves in a 43 runs opening stand that was posted in only eight overs. When Green was caught behind Rob Moysey joined Das Neves in adding 80 with the South African taking the lead role as he powered to a second century in three days. He hit eleven fours in his 106 as he clocked up a third century of 2005 following such knocks against Weymouth back in May and Taunton Outcasts the previous Saturday.
He is bearing down on the club’s record number of runs in a season which stands at 1536 and he is more than capable of achieving this.
Das Neves departed with the score on 163, but Julian Jones with a high-octane knock of 61no with three large sixes carried Wellington past the 200 mark.
Andy Perry weighed in with 13 at the end of a 52 run fifth wicket stand with Jones as Wellington totalled 220-5 in 40 overs at tea.
For The Journeymen only Douglas with 2-49 in 9 overs had any real luck as the home side held away in the first part of the game.

The Journeymen started well in their pursuit of 221 to win as Bloch and Dixon added 49 for the first wicket, but the introduction of Rob Moysey’s potent leg-spin accounted for Bloch as he shelled a catch to Under 13′s player Charlie Last, who held onto a firmly hit chance at mid-wicket.
This breakthrough by Wellington’s club captain signalled an alarming collapse as The Journeymen lost seven wickets for only 47 runs.
Richard Short – again bowling at good pace – castled Dixon for 13 and a great boundary catch by George Coate doubled Rob Moysey’s haul.
Gibson and Keenlyside steadied things down a little, but the guile of Richard Das Neves saw Keenlyside spear one high in the air and Julian Jones accepted an easy chance and his quicker ball accounted for Kiernan.
If that was a quicker ball dismissal of the day had to go to George Coate whose cleverly disguised slower ball totally bamboozled Gibson and he was bowled for nine.
At 102-8 The Journeymen were nearly down and out, but Hayes (35) and skipper Jarman added respectability to their innings by adding 30 for the ninth wicket, but it was Wellington’s Under 13 duo of Charlie Last and Ben Green who swept their team to victory with 2-18 and 1-12 respectively. Last bowled a good line and his medium pacers did much off the pitch and Green had the honour of taking the last wicket of the match.
Rob Moysey took a third wicket with a brutal faster ball that trapped Hayes in front.

All in all this was an excellent performance by Wellington with everybody contributing something during the game.