Wellington Cricket Club

Wellington Sunday XI recorded their first friendly double over Langport courtesy of this 165 run win last weekend as the good times continued to roll for the Red and Blacks.
Langport – themselves celebrating a double promotion from the previous day – opted to ask Wellington to bat and this was not the worst piece of news to deliver back to the dressing room.
Julian Smit and Sam Cook put on 33 for the first wicket before Cook was adjudged LBW. This brought Thom Trott to the crease and he and Smit proceeded to add 170 excellent runs for the second wicket.
Both laid into a Langport attack that did not possess the required cutting edge – only skipper Edwards with 2-33 and Strang escaped punishment.
Trott made 56 before been caught behind.
Smit made his first century for Wellington in making an excellent 125 that was ended when he was well caught on the boundary.
Wickets fell as Wellington strove for all the runs they could get their hands on and Adrian Lee with 20 and Phil Nicholls with 16 got them to over 250.

Wellington’s attack was potent when it came to it’s time to field and Phil Nicholls was back to his best as he took three wickets in his first five over burst as he got his line and length absolutely right. He came back later on, but was unable to add to his tally and finished with 3-23 in 8 overs.
Adrian Lee’s line was perfect as well and he was a perfect foil for Nicholls.
Ben Green extracted an amazing amount of turn and bounce as he bowled some excellent leg-spin. He took 1-21 in 8 overs and could have had more success.
Grant Davey worked up good pace and induced Watts to edge behind after he had played an obdurate knock and at 22-5 Langport were in danger of folding.
But Powell and Edwards more than doubled the score and looked set, not to overhaul the big Wellington total, but to deny the Wellington attack more success, but when Edwards ran himself out going for a second run the door was open again.
George Coate bowled a controlled spell and got some good pace out of the wicket and was rewarded by a good catch by James Dyke, who made good ground going backwards at mid-on.
Dyke himself joined the attack and mopped up the tail with a spell that realised 3-9 in 2.4 overs to give Wellington a good win.