Wellington Cricket Club

This was a remarkable Somerset League Division One fixture at the Civil Service ground last Saturday as Wellington reduced the home side to the depths of 30-8, but rain forced a draw in the end with Wellington just six runs away from victory, but with Outcasts only two wickets short themselves.

Outcasts were put into bat and were no match for the combined force of David Marshall and Kevin Symons as they looked to reprise their performance against Wedmore at the start of the month when they despatched them for 55.
Both reeled off unbroken spells of twelve overs and took a combined total of 8-19 between them – Marshall returned his third five wicket haul of the season as he let just five balls he sent down go for runs in what was a sensational display of bowling from the left-arm paceman that realised figures of 5-9.
Symons was just as miserly with 3-10 in his 12 over burst.
Outcasts simply did not have an answer to this double-pronged attack and were in danger of folding completely.
Their saving grace was that Warren swung hard for 34no and the last two wickets added 48 runs – most valuable in the end as it proved to be.
James Webber and Thom Trott wrapped matters up for Wellington to see Taunton Outcasts all out for 78 in 33 overs.

Rob Moysey and Mark Salter got Wellington going with a 22 run offering first up, but Outcasts continued the style of the day and bowled excellently too and they took Wellington wickets at crucial intervals with the Red and Blacks going from 34-1 to 41-6 and with rain now falling it was becoming a bowler’s game – De Save with 1-8 in 10 overs, Knight with 2-5 in 7 and Hosken with 3-16 in 9 were in great form for the home side.
David Marshall, Thom Trott and Kevin Symons made a dash to get Wellington over the finishing line with some improvised shots, but Trott and Symons perished and left Marshall and Gary Tillett at the crease with six runs needed in 24 balls, but the rain was tipping down by now and the umpires abandoned the match as a draw.

Wellington collected 25 points and Taunton Outcasts 23.