Wellington Cricket Club

Some images from days gone by. Here is a team photo before one of the Sunday X1's legendary trips to Weymouth in 2000.

Hello Wellington Cricket Club fans! Welcome to a brand new feature of the site which will include an abundance of photos from games and social events and even the odd video clip!

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We start with some pictures from the 2nds game against Barrington at the playing fields.

Wellington took on Evercreech in their first home match of the 2006 season and came away from a low scoring Somerset League Division One fixture with a slender one wicket defeat in what was a very low scoring match that saw only 177 runs scored for the loss of nineteen wickets.

Wellington opted to bat first in a fixture that had been postponed by just over two weeks due to a request from Evercreech so as to facilitate a wedding that the club membership had been invited to and an opening stand of 40 between Mark Salter and Rob Moysey gave not one hint of the flurry of wickets that was to follow.

Moysey was watchful in the early part of his innings before hitting over the top well as he took on spinner M.Ough and won the duel. The Wellington skipper was looking well set when he charged the same bowler once more, but was stumped for 26.

Salter was bowled next ball at the start of a passage of play that saw Wellington lose nine wickets for 33 runs as Satterthwaite (4-15 in 12 overs) and C.Ough (2-6 in 9.2 overs) ran riot in seamer friendly conditions.

They ran through a good looking Wellington batting line up with worrying ease and it was only a quickfire stand for the last wicket of 15 between Kevin Symons and Gary Tillett that got Wellington to a fourth batting point.

It was very nearly enough as Julian Smit ran in with good pace and hostility and reduced the visitors to 12-3, but a cautious and in the end match winning stand of 47 for the fourth wicket between Harding (30) and C.Ough (19) seemed to have dampened Wellington’s fervour, but now it was Evercreech’s turn to collapse in spectacular style as they slumped from 59-4 to 79-9 as Thom Trott returned to the attack and took 4-9 in 7 overs in his second burst – a spell that almost carried Wellington to an unexpected victory.
Gary Tillett spun his way to figures of 2-24 in 10 overs as he did his bit to make for a Wellington victory, but Holdway and Satterthwaite resisted all that could be thrown at them by the Red and Blacks as they batted for 9.2 overs for 10 runs, but this made the difference in the end for Evercreech.

Wellington had shown real fight with the ball, but their early season form with the bat is worrying with not a single half-century having been made so far in 2006, the pitches have been hard to play on, but on paper this batting line up should have returned more collective runs than it has so far.

Wellington took 13 points to Evercreech’s thirty.

The local derby survived the weather and saw a four run win for Sampford Arundel and with it their first win at Wellington since 1987.
The visitors opted to bat first on a green, slow surface and run scoring was difficult.
Nigel Dobson and Alan Bentley each made ten, but it was tough to get the ball through the infield.
Wellington’s opening attack of Grant Davey and Guy Murray used the bowler friendly conditions to their advantage and at the end of their initial spells they each had a wicket and Sampford Arundel were 34-2 in 12 overs.
Adrian Lee joined the attack and a smart slip catch from Julian Smit gave the medium pacer a wicket in his first over.
Lee continued to claim another couple of wickets and 3-20 in 7 overs was not a bad return from him.
Charlie Last – another of Wellington’s youth section players playing on the day – bowled his medium paced seamers up the hill and 1-18 in 6 overs represents a good effort.
A good catch by Guy Murray gave him his wicket.
Sampford Arundel captain Seb Coe restrained his usual attacking style of play, underlining just how slow the pitch was.
His forty run stand with Darren Winter for the seventh wicket was crucial and had a major say in the result, as it turned out.
Andy Perry removed Coe through a fine boundary catch from Guy Murray and George Coate wrapped up the Sampford Arundel innings for 140 in the last over.

Wellington lost a wicket at 34 when Darren Winter yorked Thom Trott, but Julian Smit and Chris Kitto added 47 runs in good style and a Wellington win looked set, but an extraordinary collapse saw seven wickets lost for only 47 runs.
Smit got aught at slip by Gavin Horne with one that came off the back of his bat as Jason Birch ran through Wellington’s middle order to take 4-18 in 6 overs.
Chris Kitto held the innings together with a great knock of 47 and whilst he was at the crease Wellington had a chance although wickets were going down at the other end, but he was out with the score at 128 and this brought Grant Davey and Charlie Last together at the crease and they had to find twelve runs if Wellington were to win, they batted with great application and resolve and had got the score to 136 when Last was trapped in front and was out LBW, thus giving the visitors a narrow four run win.

One of the best local derby matches for a while and sets things up nicely for the return fixture at Easterlands in August when Sampford Arundel chase the double over Wellington.

The inclement weather claimed both of Wellington’s Somerset League matches over the Bank Holiday weekend.
The 1st XI travelled to early season league leaders Ashcott & Shapwick in playable conditions, but it soon came to pass that the game was not going to go ahead even despite the home team’s covers.
The 2nd XI’s match with North Perrott 2nd XI saw the two teams assemble and a reasonable amount of time was allowed before the match was abandoned without a ball being bowled.
All teams take twelve points each from these ‘results’.

Overcast conditions could not dampen the spirits as Wellington U11s travelled to Taunton Outcasts and beat a good side by 27 runs writes team manager Rupert Green.

Taunton Outcasts elected to field and with some fine bowling restricted Wellington to a score of 226.

Good batting partnerships between S.Baycock and O.Burt (7) and G.Hooper and S.Murdoch (11) helped Wellington achieve this total after having lost too many wickets.

Taunton Outcasts main wicket taker was E.Denton (2).

After juice and cake Wellington bowled well and held 3 catches, but the turning point of the game was when J.Bath with an impressive fast ‘direct hit’ run out started the tumble of Taunton Outcasts wickets.

The wicket takers were S.Davey (2) who, in his first game, nearly took a hat-trick!

J.Bath (2), S.Murdoch (1), T.Green (1) and captain G.Hooper (1) also took wickets.

There is no game this Friday, so the next fixture is on Friday 9th June against Taunton Deane A (Away).

1st XI at Staplegrove Copyright Steve Monk and The Wellington Weekly News, May 2006 – Used with thanks from WCC

Wellington’s Baker Cup quarter-final fixture with West of England Premier Two side Ilminster was postponed last Monday evening when the poor weather of the previous couple of days caused the playing surface to be deemed unplayable.

The match has been rearranged for the evening of Tuesday 30th May with a 6.15pm start.

Rain had a big say in the amount of cricket played by Wellington C.C. over the last weekend with all junior section matches falling victim and the Sunday XI’s match with East Devon League side Honiton been called off as well.

On a pitch that showed the signs of the rainfall of recent times whoever won the toss was going to elect to bowl first and the home side had that honour in this Somerset League Division One fixture.
Runs were never going to be easy to come by, but Mark Salter and Rob Moysey saw off the new ball in solid style before Salter got a contentious LBW decision.
Moysey continued through to 16, but was another LBW victim to leg-spinner Pantling, who did good work for Staplegrove in conditions that would not have been conducive to wrist spin. He took 3-34 in 12 overs.
Julian Smit made a more than useful 27 before Pantling bowled him and at 65-4 Wellington were unsure of what a good score on this track would be.
The telling innings for Wellington was played by Marc Holloway who made a quickfire 40 that, in the end, gave Wellington the total to go on and win the match from.
He hit two fours and a six and was well supported by both Alec and Richard Short.
In the end Wellington totalled 160-8 in 45 overs at tea.

Wellington were soon into the groove with the ball, something that did not happen enough in their last league outing at Wedmore a couple of weeks ago.
Adrian Lee got one through Prescott’s defences and Julian Smit bowled Trump as this new opening bowling pairing for Wellington kept the run rate down as well as taking these early wickets.
Thom Trott joined the attack and took the two wickets that probably swung things towards Wellington.
An outstanding cover catch from Julian Smit accounted for Dave Penny, who has been a thorn in Wellington’s side with the bat down the years, for 25 and Gareth Parsons – twin brother of Somerset’s Mike Parsons – was trapped LBW for 20 and at 70-5 the home side were in trouble.
Gary Tillett joined the attack and bowled as good a spell as he ever done for Wellington as his accurate off-spin realised 4-25 in 10.5 overs, including the wicket of John Hodge for 32, he had the ability to push on and make a telling contribution for his side, so this was a vital wicket to get for Wellington.
Tillett then set about removing the tail and his skipper Rob Moysey joined in the action and with 2-16 in 6 overs this wrapped up a 48 run win for Wellington and 33 good points as well. Staplegrove took 13 points from the match.

This was Wellington’s first league win at Staplegrove since September 2000 and was a vital win bearing in mind the result at Wedmore.
The team rise one place to ninth in Division One of the Somerset League with a match in hand over all other teams.