Wellington Cricket Club

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Wellington 2nd XI’s Somerset League Reserves Competition Division One match with fellow promotees Bridgwater 3rd XI was called off as soon as SCL rules allow on the Saturday morning.
Both teams claim 12 points from the cancellation.
Wellington 2nd XI are in ninth place in the table at this early stage of the season.

All of the matches in Division One of the Somerset League started, but only one finished with a positive result as Wembdon beat Staplegrove, the other four all been rendered as draws, this was one of them.
Rain had cleared up sufficiently to allow a start at the appointed time of 1.45pm, but only 75 minutes of play was possible until the rain clouds gathered and steady showers forced the players off for nearly three hours.
In the 20.2 overs that were allowed in this first portion of play South Petherton – last season’s Division Two champions – made steady progress after been put into bat by Wellington and made it to 79-2.
Masters made a blunt 33 with little foot movement, but nonetheless, he did hit the ball hard and firmly – he departed caught behind by Sam Cook off of Thom Trott (1-39 in 11 overs).
Kevin Symons effected the other breakthrough as he forced Guest to loft to David Marshall who was waiting in the deep to accept a good catch.
Marshall had gone wicketless in his initial eight over burst, but had bowled well.
At 3.00pm the heavens opened and the players were forced off to the sanctuary of the pavilion where tea was taken and a number of pitch inspections were undertaken by the umpires – all of which drew negative conclusions as to been able to re-start play.
At 5.50pm play was re-started and the match was reduced to a 53 over match and with South Petherton been able to use up the full 45 over capacity of an innings, Wellington were faced with the prospect of an eight over innings when it came to their time to bat – if indeed the game went that far.
Wellington bossed the early part of the play as South Petherton were reduced to 104-5 with Kevin Symons bowling well, but the 64 run sixth-wicket partnership that Bolton (19) & Blackburn (43) added took away any chance of Wellington bowling Petherton out and chasing down a total of around 120.
Symons finished with 4-57 in 12 overs – he bowled better than that for sure.
David Marshall re-joined the attack and claimed the wicket of Bolton through an excellent Mark Saunders catch at long-on.
Marc Holloway and Rob Moysey got a wicket each as South Petherton closed on 180-8 in 41.1 overs, leaving Wellington 11 overs to bat for.
By then time was going on and the light was fading, making for thoughts of the sanctity of the clubhouse, rather than carrying on with a match that had no possible conclusion other than a draw.
Wellington faced four of the eleven overs available to them, in which time Rob Moysey and Mark Salter made it to 25-0 before one final dousing called matters off once and for all.
Wellington are in sixth place following this match and the 21 points they collected – the same as South Petherton.

The match balls for this fixture were sponsored by Ablelec Ltd (01823 443875) – the club are grateful for their input in this respect.

The smile was put back on the club’s face with this one wicket win for the Sunday XI in the opening Three Counties league match of the season, not only for the clubs, but for the league as a whole.
Dorset Premier League side Weymouth opted to bat first and Phil Nicholls got the breakthrough as he induced McKay to play on for three as he bowled a testing spell that gave the Weymouth line-up much to think about.
He was a little fortunate to get Jannoway out LBW, but this was a key wicket to get as this class player is one who has scored a lot of runs against Wellington down the years.
Kevin Symons with 3-48 in 8 overs recovered from an uncertain start to bowl a great spell – his best wicket was to get rid of Weymouth skipper England, who had raced to 48 and was looking very dangerous.
David Marshall joined the attack and collected figures of 2-40 in 8 overs as Weymouth were reduced to 101-5, but Hobbs with 43 and Lawes with 21 added 52 for the seasiders sixth wicket to dent Wellington’s confidence.
But they fought back to bowl Weymouth out for 198 in only 36 overs as Bob Trott and Rob Moysey cleaned up the tail.

Wellington lost skipper Thom Trott early, but Rob Moysey and James Dyke added a fine 92 for the second wicket before Moysey was forced to retire hurt, having taken a blow on the nose. Moysey was cracking the ball to the boundary and had passed fifty when he was forced to leave the crease.
Wellington wobbled in the middle order as Jannoway spun his way to 5-34 in 8 overs of good off-spin.
Dyke continued to 51 and his good start to the 2007 season carries on.
David Marshall made a courageous 26 in poor light and with rain advancing this was an invaluable knock for Wellington.
Steve Symons and Josh Hancock held the Weymouth bowlers at bay and did enough to enable Rob Moysey to come back to the crease and continue his innings with last man Phil Nicholls.
They took Wellington to within touching distance of the 199 needed to win and a pushed two into the covers from Nicholls secured a one wicket win for Wellington.
Moysey was unbeaten on 67 at the end of the game.
Wellington took seventeen points to Weymouth’s ten and the teams reconvene on the South Coast in August.

Wellington 2nd XI started life in Division One of the Somerset League’s Reserves competition and found out quickly what will be needed to prosper at the higher level following their promotion to this level.
Playing last season’s runners-up was a stiff enough task anyway and so it proved to be as the visitors to Courtland Road ran out victors by 67 runs.

James Dyke asked Chard to bat first and they started cautiously against Adrian Lee and Martin Short who bowled well in tandem. Lee probed a consistent off-stump line and got the initial breakthrough when Dunn fenced at one and Kevin Crout was waiting behind the sticks to accept the chance – one of four dismissals for the Wellington vice-captain.
The game then rather stagnated as Chard did not run away with matters – indeed they only reached 115-1 in 30 overs – but no further breakthrough was forthcoming until Glenn – who had been dropped earlier – was bowled by Gary Tillett who delivered a top quality spell of off-spin bowling.
Tillett took 1-30 in 12 overs delivered in succession, he spun the ball sharply at times and had several good LBW shouts turned down. In the last over of his spell three chances went down as Chard threw the bat.
Chris Rudd recovered from a slightly expensive start to bowl his off-cutters to good effect and figures of 2-71 in 12 overs don’t really tell the story of how he bowled.
He removed the free-scoring Crew for 39 and later gave Kevin Crout one of his three stumpings that came about as Chard tried to force the pace at the end of their innings.
Bob Trott with 2-9 also profited from this ‘crash and dash’ approach as Chard 2nd XI closed on 186-6 in 45 overs – less than they would have liked with the wickets they had in hand.

It looked a long way off when Wellington were reduced to 17-4 in 12 overs as Sochon and Hawes ran riot with the ball.
They generated good pace and movement and Wellington struggled to cope with this.
Chris Rudd and Bob Trott steadied things with a fifth wicket stand of 32. Rudd made a good 21 with a great straight six been his best shot.
He was bowled by the slingy Saunders in the end.
David Derrick joined Bob Trott and they enjoyed another useful offering in partnership terms as they added 19 sixth wicket runs – they dealt with the off-spin of Wyatt well enough and did not look in any real bother, but both departed on with the score on 68 as Trott was caught behind off a top edge for 16 and Derrick – having swept left-arm spinner Warren for an elegant boundary four – was trapped right in front going for the same shot and was out palpably LBW for seven.
Adrian Lee joined Martin Short and they played two all-action innings that got Wellington’s score up to over a hundred.
Lee hit 22 as he took on Warren and won – for a while at least – lifting him over the boundary for six, but the bowler won the duel in the end on his way to 4-25 in 6 overs.
Short top scored with 25 and was last man out at 119.
Chard 2nd XI took 34 points from this match to Wellington 2nd XI’s 11.

Wellington narrowly lost this opening Somerset League Division One fixture to suffer their first defeat on the road since losing the same match exactly a year ago.
Wedmore took first knock and Wellington were in control at 78-4 as Thom Trott removed both of the home team’s openers – their was a degree of symmetry to the dismissals as both Chapman and Blackburn were trapped LBW for 24. Trott took 2-37 in 8 overs.
The run out of O’Connor and Kevin Symons removing S.Bowley for a duck showed that Wellington were in the ascendancy, but a brutal innings of 61 from Frankpitt with six sixes changed the complexion of the Wedmore innings as he and Nichols added 94 for the home side’s fifth wicket and this went a long way to getting Wedmore over 200.
Simon Rudd with 3-39 in 12 overs did a great job for Wellington as he pulled things back for the Red and Blacks.
David Marshall (1-31) replied with a late wicket as Wedmore closed on 230-9 in 45 overs – their last two wickets added 33 valuable runs for the home side, but Wellington can be happy with their efforts in the field.

Rob Moysey and Alex Sparks ignited Wellington’s assault on the 231 required with two excellent innings – Moysey cracked 36 with seven fours and a six as he only hit one scoring shot that was not a boundary.
Sparks made a capital 60 and from a precarious 69-4 he and David Marshall put on 91 fifth wicket runs for Wellington as the dream of chasing down the large Wedmore total was becoming a reality.
Sparks – who had a fine first season as a 1st XI player in 2006 – hit eight fours and a six in his innings.
Marshall carried on the fight to his final score of 78 with seven fours and three sixes – had he batted to the end Wellington would surely have won, but he was out with 17 runs required and it was just too much for Simon Rudd and Kevin Symons to do to get over the line.
Despite the obvious disappointment felt by the team they collected 19 points from this match.