Wellington Cricket Club

Wellington made heavy weather of beating bottom side Sampford Arundel B and only did so in the last over. Bill Townsend and Andy Wells gave their side a good start, but this was negated by the double blow that Marc Holloway inflicted as he bowled Townsend for 16 and then next ball removed a real dangerman in Seb Coe.
Derek Greenway was then run out by a direct hit from Holloway and Sampford Arundel B were subsiding, but Chris Cherry played an enterprising innings of 22 until he was another run out victim as too was Andy Wells and Wellington had a chance of closing the Sampford Arundel B innings early. Barry Manley evaded dismissal as Wellington spurned a number of chances to remove him and he got his side to a respectable 132-5 in their 12 overs.

Wellington lost a wicket in the first over before Stuart Currall and Marc Holloway worked the ball around the arena to get Wellington’s scoring rate aligned to the required rate.
Holloway found the back wall as well and made it to retirement in good time as did Currall.
Alex Sparks – who is in good form in what is his first season of indoor cricket – again worked the ball well into the gaps and made it to the magical 25 mark as well.
Kevin Crout was the fourth Wellington batsman to do as such and this meant that Wellington had a good number of players to return to the arena, but on return both Holloway and Sparks were out and it was left to Currall and Crout to get the winning runs with just two balls to spare and to register a fourth straight win and nineteen points for the Red and Blacks.