Barrington Sunday XI 187 – Wellington Sunday XI 160-5
Wellington Sunday XI lost by 27 runs to Barrington in their fourth of six Three Counties League Division One fixtures last weekend when they perhaps let the visitors off the hook somewhat having reduced them to 38-5.
Wellington opted to field first and Julian Smit and Bob Trott formed an effective opening partnership as good wickets were taken early on.
Chris Kitto showed a trusty pair of hands in taking the catches that saw the end of French and overseas player Doss as Trott took 3-32 in his eight overs.
Smit bowled T.Towill all ends up and with 1-16 had had a good weekend with the ball.
Dan Thorne took 2-36 in 7.3 overs as his left-arm over style of bowling proved effective, sadly he had to retire from the attack near the end of his spell as he incurred a side-strain.
Rob Moysey took over from Thorne and bowled another teasing and accurate spell of leg-spin that realised 2-15 in 5.3 overs.
Barrington recovered from 38-5 and 95-6 through Redwood’s 52 and Baulch’s hard-hitting 56no.
James Dyke (2-20) eeked out two wickets late on to ensure that Wellington claimed full bowling points whilst denying Barrington full batting points.
Rob Moysey and Chris Kitto engineered a 64 run opening stand for Wellington and this looked to be a good base to go on from for the Red and Blacks, but this fell away rather to 98-5. Kitto was caught behind for 21 and Doss took 3-20 in 8 fiery overs, including Moysey for 37.
But their was a sliver lining for Wellington in a fine unbroken 62 run partnership for the sixth wicket between Julian Smit (37no) and David Derrick (21no) as they ensured that Barrington were denied bowling bonus points.
Both players worked the ball around well as Barrington went on the defensive and singles and twos were collected at will.
Despite defeat Wellington took eleven points to Barrington’s sixteen.
