Evercreech 194 – Wellington 148
If Wellington’s run of five successive wins was going to end it was going to be at Evercreech, where the Red and Blacks have tasted success only once since 1990, and so it came to be that Rob Moysey’s charges were beaten by 46 runs with nearly four overs left.
Wellington asked the home side to bat first on a green track and Evercreech were soon into their stride as Harding and Chinnock were hitting the ball with some venom.
Thom Trott struck to remove Harding as he edged one to Sam Cook behind the sticks.
A great low catch in the deep from Mark Salter accounted for Chinnock and at 50-2 the game was well balanced.
Bontoft and Agutter steadied Evercreech down with a 54 run third wicket stand, but the spin of Richard Das Neves and Paul Short steadily worked through the home line-up.
Das Neves bowled with excellent control to return 2-37 in 12 overs and Short improved as his spell went on as he took 4-55 in 12 overs.
Wellington held some excellent catches during their time in the field, but the last two Evercreech wickets realised 36 valuable runs and in the end this made a big difference.
Rob Moysey and Richard Short wrapped things up for Wellington.
At 38-3 Wellington were in trouble with their prolific top three all back in the hutch, but Thom Trott and Stuart Currall added 71 for the fourth wicket and this gave Wellington a real sniff of victory. Trott started cautiously and blossomed into a real gem of an innings as he made 54. He was eventually undone by M.Ough who took 3-44 in 12 overs of leg-spin.
Currall made a fine knock of 47 as he worked the ball around well, also latching onto the overpitched ball and slamming it through the covers with glee.
But the departure of Trott and Currall paved the way for a collapse as the Wellington score dipped from 138-5 to a poor 146 all out with overs to spare.
All good things have to come to an end and this 46 run reverse was Wellington’s first loss since June 25th, but they can console themselves with a haul of 17 points from this game and they stay safely in the top half of the table.
