Wellington Sunday XI rewrote the record books last weekend when they meted out a ten-wicket defeat to Somerset League Division Three side Langport on their own ground and with it posted a new club record first wicket stand in friendly fixtures and the second highest club wicket partnership ever at league or friendly level.

The game was in doubt however as a ruptured water pipe flooded one end of the ground and a short boundary was thus created with a lake running behind it.

Langport opted to bat first and after losing a wicket early got down to posting their own good score of 247-4. Excellent knocks from Paul (73), P.Curd (41), Strang (39*) and K.Curd (56*) ensured that Wellington did not have an easy time of it in the field in the hot, humid and thundery conditions.

Paul Short bowled beautifully to take 2-14 in 8 overs as his combination of flight and loop was hard to get away.
Rupert Green bowled well, but was always up against it bowling from the short end of the ground where the boundary had been brought in.
Richard Das Neves – in his last game for Wellington before returning to his native South Africa – bowled better than 1-38 in 8 overs might suggest.
Thom Trott gained some good bounce and pace and he was rewarded for his efforts when stand-in keeper Andy Perry held a chance from Langport’s Paul.
He had taken over the gloves when Sam Cook’s injured finger became too sore for him to continue in this vital position.

But Strang and K.Curd added 107 unbroken fifth wicket runs for the home side leaving Wellington 40 overs to get 248 to win – a big ask.

Try telling that to Rob Moysey and Richard Das Neves who plundered 252 runs between them in just 26 overs as they laid into the home attack with venom.
Das Neves hit 124 not out and in the process broke the club’s individual runs in a season record and Moysey cracked 110no.
Langport could do nothing to stop the incessant flow of boundaries all around the ground and out of it as well as this pair of batsmen played nigh-on perfect innings.
The Wellington run rate was around 10 per over all innings and that is surely some sort of record in itself.

Quite a game really…!