Wellington Cricket Club

Wellington Sunday XI were well on top in this Three Counties League match on Bank Holiday Monday, but heavy showers washed away the Red and Blacks chances of making it two wins out of two in this year’s competition when the match was abandoned as a draw at 6.30pm.

Thom Trott won an important toss and had no hesitation in asking Dorchester to bat first and the ball was the winner early on as Grant Davey and Adrian Lee bowled an excellent opening spell of eight overs each.
Davey (2-25) bowled with good pace and energy and made the initial breakthrough as Joslin spooned one up to him for a caught and bowled chance.
Marc Holloway gave him his second wicket when Godfrey did not get over the top of a lofted straight drive and was caught at mid-on.
Lee (1-25) got a nice line and length going from the off and with some movement been obtained as well, he gave the Dorchester line-up something to think about.
With Marc Holloway joining the attack and getting a wicket in his second over Wellington had reduced the visitors to 67-4 in 20 overs and were well on top, but a hefty shower spoilt things and an hour (including tea) was lost and so the match became a 35 over a side affair.
Wellington soon hit their straps after the restart with Holloway bowling his medium pace to good effect to claim 3-25 in 7 overs as his pace was just right for the situation.
David Marshall bowled at good pace and deserved more than the 1-20 in 7 overs that he realised.
Dorchester – making their first visit to Wellington since 1995 – never got going after the break for rain as only Campbell with 34 really looked at home on the wet wicket.
Max Capaldi joined the attack late on as he and Bob Trott bowled out for Wellington and by now with Dorchester going for their shots wickets tumbled regularly – the catch that James Dyke took at deep mid-wicket was an excellent one as Capaldi took 2-15.
Wellington had bowled Dorchester out for 123 in 34 overs and they had bowled and fielded well in the testing conditions.

Thom Trott and Alex Sparks got Wellington’s innings off to a good start as they struck 29 in 6 overs and had they continued then Wellington would surely have won, but soon after Trott was bowled for 14 the rain clouds gathered once more and a heavy shower washed away any chance of completing the match thus rendering the game abandoned as a draw with Wellington taking eight points to Dorchester’s seven.

Wellington 1st XI recorded their first Somerset League Division One win of the season by beating Taunton Outcasts at home last weekend – a 63 run win that gave the Red and Blacks 34 points and lifts them to fifth in the table after four matches.
Mark Salter – deputising for Rob Moysey – lost the toss and was asked to bat by Outcasts – last season’s Division Two runners-up – and Wellington made a cautious start as Salter and Phil Nicholls added a steady 15 run opening partnership.
Run scoring was hard against the steady Outcasts opening attack – Knight conceded only 17 runs from his eleven overs and De Save only let 15 go in a six over opening burst, although he let 35 go in five overs when he rejoined the attack later on.
At 50-3 in 20 overs Wellington were in a spot of bother and this signalled the time for attack and Alex Sparks and Mark Saunders added 81 for the fourth wicket.
Sparks hit six fours in a knock of 48 and was the perfect foil for Saunders to crack 80 with eight fours and two sixes.
This threw Outcasts off their stride as Sparks and Saunders added their runs together in 14 overs.
Forty-two further runs came through Saunders and Thom Trott (13no) as Wellington kept this injection of pace going.
The home side had got through to 181-6 at tea with 131 of these runs coming in 25 overs.
Taunton Outcasts had let things slip somewhat in this passage of play.
But any advantage that they seemed to have lost was restored by Tottle and Saffin who put on 45 runs for the opening wicket as runs came at a fast pace – nearly seven an over to be precise and Wellington had to do something quick.
David Marshall removed both openers, but even with this on Wellington’s side, they were still leaking runs at over five an over, but then the ceiling caved in on Taunton Outcasts innings as Richard Henwood trapped Weekes LBW for nine and then Marshall took three wickets in four overs to reduce the visitors to 83-6.
Henwood claimed another wicket on 1st XI debut and Gary Tillett wrapped things up with 3-14 in 5 overs as Outcasts were despatched in just 31.2 overs.
This was a fine win for Wellington and one that will give them some confidence going into next week’s home match with Purnells.
Wellington claimed 34 points and move up to fifth in the Division One table.

The match ball for this fixture was sponsored by Ablelec Ltd (01823 443875) and the team and club are grateful to them for their support in this respect.

Wellington 2nd XI are up to sixth in Division One of the Somerset League’s Reserves competition following this fine four wicket success at Glastonbury last Saturday when they claimed 34 points – the same haul as the 1st XI enjoyed.
Playing on an artificial pitch Wellington won the toss and asked the home side to bat first and they had removed both openers by the time the score had reached 15 as Adrian Lee and Martin Short brought balls back to castle Holland and Moore.
Wellington’s joy was short-lived though as Wade with a superb 71 and Crees got the Glastonbury score up into the fifties, but Martin Short – enjoying a great start to the 2007 season – produced two perfect deliveries to see Crees and Cox back to the pavilion and at 67-4 Wellington were fighting back.
All the time though Wade was looking like making a huge score as he cut, drove and pulled powerfully all round the wicket.
In the end he was well caught by Julian Jones at deep mid-wicket as he held a great catch off of Chris Rudd (2-62).
Glastonbury keeper Collins was left with the tail and it was a young tail at that, but the home side manoeuvred to 190-9 in 45 overs with Vassali making 19no.
Bob Trott bowled an excellent spell of off-spin to take 2-39 in 10 overs as he maintained a perfect line and length.
Wellington fielded well in general on a bumpy and uneven outfield and can be happy with their efforts at tea.
A wicket was lost at 15, but Kevin Crout and Bob Trott took the score to 54 with a series of glides and angled bat shots that used the outfield – uneven, but fast – to it’s full extent.
Crout hit well over the top and had made it to 24 before he was caught at point.
Trott hit a capital 25 before he too was caught in the covers.
Skipper James Dyke was well caught behind and at 87-4 with just over a hundred needed the game was in the balance, but an innings of quality from Chris Rudd saw Wellington recover and then push onwards for victory.
Rudd hit 66no with ten fours and two sixes in a powerful knock that bounded his team’s innings together. With Dave Luxton (12) and Martin Short (27) he found able assistance as Wellington closed in on the 191 to win.
Glastonbury tried all options, but could not remove Rudd and the winning runs came courtesy of five wides with over three overs to spare.
Wellington 2nd XI now move up to sixth in the table and seem to be adapting to life at the higher level well.

Wellington U13 Away to Wiveliscombe 27/05/07

Louis Corbin O’Grady
James Carson
Nick Salter
Toby Jenkins
Jordan Green
Aaron Chugg
Scott Davey
Alex Troake

Wellington’s Baker Cup campaign ended at the quarter-final stage with this seven wicket defeat at home to Taunton Deane A on Monday evening, but Wellington ran the WECCC Premier Two side to the last over after they had posted a more than credible 126-8 in 20 overs.
On winning the toss Rob Moysey and Mark Salter added 34 in eight overs at the top of the Wellington innings with Moysey running the ball around well to get a regular stream of singles on his way to 15 and Salter hit three lovely fours in his 17.
Both were out by the time the score had reached 47.
This cued Alex Sparks to make a top knock of 19 that saw his match runs with the amount of balls faced as he claimed singles and twos at will.
David Marshall cracked two sixes and looked as if was ready to take the Taunton Deane A attack to the cleaners, but Bailey (3-29) held on to a caught and bowled chance to end the fun.
Mark Saunders played his second excellent innings of this Baker Cup run as he crunched 31 with a series of booming cover drives as Wellington passed 100 in the 17th over.
Scrambled runs took the home side to 126-8 in their 20 overs.

In the final analysis Taunton Deane A won this match on the strength of the 40 runs that Hewton and Proudlove hit in the first four overs of their reply.
David Marshall took 2-19 in 5 overs as he bowled both these players for 31 apiece and this gave the Deane something to think about.
Rob Moysey bowled a good spell and his reward was to remove A.Warren for 20 with the same amount needed to win.
Taunton Deane A were cautious as they neared the victory line and their win came when Johnson hit a four from the last ball of the penultimate over to give the county town team a seven wicket win that sees them play in the one of the competition’s semi finals that will be played at Taunton C.C’s ground on the evening of Monday 4th June.

The Sunday XI had a thumping win at Honiton when they ran out as victors by 133 runs against the East Devon League side in a match where all Wellington players played a part.
Rob Moysey and James Dyke got Wellington off to a good start as they added 48 runs with both playing well all round the wicket. Dyke had made 11 before he was bowled a brute of a delivery by Pulman that turned him round and a good slip catch was held by Tucker.
Wellington played well in patches, but as one stand got going it was ended and at 124-4 the magnitude of Wellington’s innings was uncertain, but Moysey was still there and he hit the first century of the season as he made a powerful 110 with some excellent shots all round the wicket, but the quality of Moysey’s pull shots was something to behold.
Kevin Symons with 31 gave the 1st XI skipper great support and Adrian Lee finished things off with a knock of 23no that saw the Wellington innings finish with two sixes.
Wellington closed on 234-7 in 40 overs.

Wellington’s bowling matched their batting as George Coate got the first breakthrough when Sam Cook accepted a chance behind the stumps to remove Pulman for a duck.
Austin, always looking ill at ease whilst at the crease, was snapped up by Coate who took 2-12 in 5 overs.
At the other end Grant Davey bowled quick, straight and with real hostility in his seven over burst and 1-25 doesn’t do him justice.
Adrian Lee with 4-24 snuffed out any chance of a Honiton win as he bowled his 8 overs on the reel.
Josh Hancock took a wicket with his first ball in senior cricket as he bowled a tidy four over burst and a catch came his way as well.
Andy Perry took two wickets to wrap matters up in 29.4 overs to give Wellington Sunday XI a good win.

Wellington had chances to restrict Ilton to under 200 in this Somerset League Division One fixture last Saturday, but the home side, who only recorded four double figure scores in their innings, did enough to lay down a total that was beyond the reach of the Red and Blacks in the final analysis.
Ilton batted first and got off to a fair start with Williams and Price adding 43 first up, but David Marshall got one through Williams defence for 19 and Ilton skipper Oliver, who had hit 157no on the first week of the season, was run out for zero.
Ilton then regained the impetus as Price and Shaffique added 65 third wicket runs before another double breakthrough came Wellington’s way as skipper Rob Moysey removed Shaffique and the much-travelled Denslow for a second duck of the Ilton innings.
All the time Price was benefiting from a spurned run out chance that had come Wellington’s way when he had made precious few of the 89 that he finally managed, this was the difference between Wellington winning and losing in all probability.
Moysey carried through to 4-43 in 12 good overs of leg-spin with Kevin Symons and David Marshall collecting scalps as well.
The Ilton innings was wrapped up by Phil Nicholls who took 2-6 late on a the home side were all out for 207 in the last allotted over of their innings.

Wellington’s innings could not have started in a worse way as they slid to 3-2 in the third over, but Alex Sparks, who was forced to retire hurt and resume his innings later, and Matt Colman got their side going again in the right way and the score was approaching the forties when Colman was run out for 21. Sparks was on the sidelines by this time.
Marc Holloway and Mark Saunders added 59 runs from this point and Wellington were half-way towards their target, but from 96-3 they slid to 106-7 and needed propping up big time.
David Marshall cracked 32 good runs and was the penultimate wicket to fall as Wellington got past the eight batting points level.
Simon Rudd made 23 from his position at number nine, but the game was away from Wellington and they were all out for 168 in 41.1 overs to suffer a 39 run defeat that saw Ilton go up to second in the early season table with Wellington receiving 18 points to lie seventh.

Wellington 2nd XI recorded the club’s first Somerset League win of the 2007 season with this Reserves Competition Division One win over Frome at Courtland Road last Saturday when the visitors inability to see out their 45 overs cost them dear as Wellington edged home with seven balls to spare.
Frome, who now prop the division up through this result, opted to bat first and a superb opening burst from Richard Henwood and Martin Short saw Frome were shackled from the off and with wickets falling as well the visitors had much to think about.
The combination of Henwood seaming the ball away and Short’s left-arm around angle proved lethal as he took 3-23 in 12 super overs – a great low catch from skipper James Dyke started things off and a consistent line and length ensured two more victims.
Wellington could not remove Frome skipper Stonell who made a capital 67 and kept his side’s innings together.
He and Frome keeper Penny with 25 added a frustrating 58 runs for the sixth wicket, but the Frome tail collapsed to 152 all out as five wickets were lost for just nine runs.
George Coate bowled well coming up the hill into a stiff breeze and 1-27 in 6 overs was his input.
Chris Rudd with 1-33 saw the overs out up the hill and Richard Henwood re-joined the attack and removed Stonell at the perfect time for Wellington.
Two run outs did the trick for Wellington to wrap things off as Adrian Lee sent in a direct hit to run out Ja Dredge.

Wellington saw their score dip to 17-2 before Julian Jones and James Dyke added 63 for the third wicket, both looked in command of the Frome attack, although off-spinner Goddard with 2-8 in 12 overs could not be got away by the Wellington line-up.
Dyke benefited from been dropped twice on his way to 41 with four fours and Jones, who was restrained early on, cracked 24 of his 31 runs towards the end of his stay at the crease as he lifted the ball out of the ground twice.
At 89-5 in 32 overs consolidation was needed and it came in the form of Richard Henwood and Dave Luxton who held firm long enough to add 35 runs for the sixth Wellington wicket.
Luxton used all his nous to repel the testing ball before hitting the bad ball on his way to 13.
Martin Short, playing as he had in defeat to Chard 2nd XI a fortnight before, played an uptempo innings that, combined with Henwood’s 27no, took Wellington 2nd XI over the line and to 35 points. Frome 2nd XI took 13 points.

Wellington 2nd XI are now seventh and will look at Saturday’s trip to play Glastonbury 3rd XI as an opportunity to push onwards and upwards.

Wellington U13 to play Bishops Lydeard 20/05/07

George Hooper
James Bath
Sam Murdoch
John Atyeo
Sam Baycock
William Roberts
Louis Corben O’Grady
Toby Jenkins

Wellington Cricket Club and BT Sports have joined forces to provide a 3 day summer ‘Cricket Camp’ for 9-14 year olds. Running from Tuesday 28th to Thursday 30th August, the event is organised by Ben Trott, former Somerset and Kent cricketer. Ben now runs BT Sports from his base in Canterbury. Click on the headline for more info.

Numbers are limited; please book early. For further details, please contact Duncan Short (Wellington CC Chairman) on 667325 or Ben Trott on 01227 713149.

A poster with full details and booking form can be found in the document attached to this story.