Wellington Cricket Club

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.