Wellington Cricket Club

Wellington Sunday XI’s latest Three Counties League Division One fixture went in favour of the home side as they were blown away when it came to their turn to bat as the score dipped to 26-6 in the face of an explosive opening burst from the Premier One side.

TSA opted to bat first on a green track and were given a solid start by Jennings and Bradford who added 46 for the first wicket. Andy Mitchell gave them much to think of, but went unrewarded.
Wellington gifted them several extras, but it was Richard Short who mde the breakthrough when Jennings looped a simple chance to Rob Moysey in the gully.
Phil Nicholls was doing plenty with the ball and he got one through Pimm’s defences.
Nicholls bowled eight overs off the reel and 1-24 represents a good effort from the fast bowler.
Rob Moysey and Richard Das Neves bowled a good combined spell of wrist and finger spin that kept TSA in check at the mid-way point of their innings.
Das Neves took 4-36 in 8 overs and Moysey took 2-51 in his 8 overs as much variety of delivery was served up.
Thom Trott rounded things off for Wellington with a wicket first ball and Grant Davey returned to the attack and was a much better proposition at the end of the TSA innings.
A good piece of work between Richard Das Neves and Phil Nicholls saw that Baldock was run out on the last ball of the innings and Wellington had claimed ten points at the half-way stage of the game.

They added only one more point as they were blown away when it came to their turn to bat.
Hawkins and Grundy bowled quick and straight and reduced Wellington to 26-6.
Skipper Alec Short and Rob Moysey consolidated with a 23 run seventh wicket stand with Moysey making a useful 19.
But 49-6 became 49-8 and a huge defeat was beckoning, but Short played a stoic innings as he resisted all that TSA could throw at him, that was until he played one to leg and just slipped back far enough to dislodge the leg bail and thus he was out hit wicket for 21.
Grant Davey played a bright little innings for 13, but he found Grundy in the deep and Wellington were all out for 83 and TSA had won by 108 runs.

Despite this been a huge defeat Wellington still took only four less points from the match to TSA’s total because they had claimed the full youth bonus.

TSA took 15 points to Wellington’s eleven.