Monthly Archives: July 2006

Evercreech 193 – Wellington 194-4

Wellington well and truly got the monkey that manifests itself as an away match at Evercreech off their backs as they crushed the home side by six wickets in this Somerset League Division One match with some sixteen overs left to win there for only the second time in sixteen years.

Evercreech opted to bat first and the usual trend of such matches was there to see as Chinnock cracked 36 in just 26 balls, but a canny spell from Kevin Symons who delivered 12 overs straight off saw that this energetic start was not to last for Evercreech.

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Ashbrittle 153-6 – Wellington Midweek XI 154-3

Wellington Midweek XI again took a 20/20 fixture to the limit in this match at West Somerset League Division One club Ashbrittle last Thursday evening when they claimed a seven wicket win off the last ball of the match to record their fourth win in five 20/20 matches so far this season.

Ashbrittle opted to bat first and were soon in trouble as Thom Trott removed both openers by the time the score had reached four and if you then add two run outs into the bargain the home side were in trouble, but Andy Hill with 45 and Rob Hill with 39 got their side back on track as they played a couple of good knocks.

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Wellington Sunday XI 108 – Axminster Sunday XI 113-5

The Sunday XI could not make it a hat-trick of wins for the club as they gave a disappointing collective batting performance against Axminster in this Three Counties Sunday League Division One fixture that resulted in a five wicket win for the 2004 champions.

Wellington opted to bat on winning the toss, but were 2-2 in 2 overs and looking for some stability. Skipper Thom Trott and Alex Sparks provided it as they got the score to 37 before Trott speared one high in the air for Lopez to take a catch off of his own bowling.
James Dyke joined Sparks and they added 34 runs for Wellington’s fifth wicket and this seemed to have got Wellington through their early tribulations, but Dyke (13) was a victim of Fragel (3-27) and his dismissal started another collapse as the score dipped from 83-4 to 93-8.

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Barrington 2nd XI 132 – Wellington 2nd XI 136-1

Wellington 2nd XI made it four wins in a row with only one point dropped and with this run of results are right in the promotion mix in Division Two of the Somerset League’s Reserves Competition following this thumping nine wicket over bottom side Barrington 2nd XI last Saturday.

James Dyke won the toss and asked Barrington to bat first and he was rewarded with a good tight spell from Richard Henwood and Martin Short.
Patterson was first to go when he looped a tame pull shot straight to Richard Short at mid-wicket off of Henwood and Wellington were up and running.
Aplin played a great straight drive and then thumped one to the cover area where James Dyke made a sensational stop and returned the ball to keeper Chris Nicholls who coolly ran him out with Aplin having bolted up the pitch thinking that the ball was through the Wellington skipper.

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Wedmore 170 – Wellington 173-9

Wellington once again found themselves in a nail-biting conclusion as they overcame newly promoted Wedmore by a narrow one wicket margin at the Playing Fields last Saturday writes Mark Saunders.

Wedmore were asked to bar first and soon found themselves in trouble as the Wellington new ball partnership of Thom Trott and Kevin Symons reduced them to 36-6 through a combination of a steady line and length combined with safe catching and some rather exotic shots from the Wedmore batsmen. Trott finished with 3-29 in 12 overs and Symons 3-39 in 8 in what was probably the best opening burst with the ball of the league campaign so far.

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League Standings at the season halfway point

At the half way point of the season both the 1st XI and 2nd XI are floating around the middle of their respective tables.

The 1st’s are doing slightly worse, currently sat at 7th of 10.
1st XI Division 1 tables
With less than 20 points seperating 3rd from 8th though, they will be looking to improve on that position, starting with Wedmore at the weekend.

The 2nd’s currently lie 5th after gaining 104 points from a possible 105 in recent weeks.
2nd XI Division 2 tables

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Butleigh 2nd XI 144 – Wellington 2nd XI 148-3

Butleigh’s internal selection issues were shown up by the fact that their 2nd XI fielded six under 19s and though they tried hard Wellington 2nd XI won at a canter by seven wickets with 20 overs to spare.
Butleigh opted to bat first and Foyne and S.Edmondson put together a steady if slow-going opening stand of 38 that took nearly 20 overs to compile.
The breakthrough came through Andy Mitchell who bowled Foyne round his legs for 16.
Greenwood joined the game and made a big hitting 35, but he became one of two wickets for Adrian Lee (4-27 in 9 overs) at the start of his second spell and with his departure the rot set in as Butleigh slid from 91-1 to 144 all out.

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Wellington 175-9 – Butleigh 178-3

Wellington lost a Somerset League Division One match for the first time in a month when they were soundly beaten by Butleigh at Courtland Road last Saturday by a margin of seven wickets.
Rob Moysey opted to bat first and Wellington found themselves in a spot of bother at 45-5 as Hooper with 2-29 in 12 overs did some damage.
Mark Salter with 26 was the shining light at the top of the Wellington innings with only one other double figure score to keep his company.
Mark Saunders and Simon Rudd got Wellington out of trouble with two excellent knocks of 60 and 41 respectively.
These innings, along with a late 18 from Sam Cook, got Wellington to 175-8 which was a good recovery from their earlier plight, but as someway short of what they were looking for when they opted to bat on winning the toss.

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