Wellington had too much firepower for Wedmore in this Somerset League Division One match at Courtland Road last weekend, but the margin of the win for the Red and Blacks was still hard to believe as there were only two points between the clubs going into this match.
Rob Moysey opted to ask the visitors to bat first on winning the toss – the only real option with the way that the weather has been recently and David Marshall and Kevin Symons were entrusted with the ball and they did not disappoint.
Both bowlers delivered their twelve over allocations on the reel and they simply blew Wedmore away to the tune of 35-7 in 24 overs when their spells ended.
Marshall was irrepressible in taking 5-17 in 12 excellent overs of left-arm pace bowling as he hit the right line and length from the off and the quantity of victims that were bowled or trapped LBW shows how well Marshall and Symons performed.
Only Foster with 17 got into double figures for Wedmore and extras contributed 12 runs.
Symons was a perfect foil for his opening parter as he sent his twelve overs down for just 10 runs – he took two wickets as well as Marshall blasted away at the other end with Symons offering accuracy at the other end.
The damage had been done by the time it came to replacing the opening pair and Rob Moysey and Gary Tillett finished the job off in 9.3 overs as the spinning ball proved to be as deadly and unplayable as the seaming ball had been.
Wedmore had been despatched for 55 in 33.3 overs and there was not even time to take tea between innings.

Rob Moysey (28no) and Mark Salter (24) sped Wellington to a nine wicket win as they needed only 12 overs to complete the job – Salter was dismissed with the score on 43, but Matt Colman ensured that there were no further alarms for Wellington and they cruised to the 56 needed in style with a ton of overs and time to spare.

Wellington can be proud of this effort and take 35 points to Wedmore’s modest three and stay fourth in the table on 233 points, this result also ensures that Wellington 1st XI have not conceded a league double since Rob Moysey took over as club and team captain in 2005.

The match ball for this fixture was kindly sponsored by The Mount Veterinary Hospital (01823 662286) – the club and team are most grateful to them for their input in this respect.