Bishops Lydeard 226-6 Wellington Sunday XI 118

Lydeard opted to bat on winning the toss and got away to a good start as Clarke (38) and Contreras (33) added 72 for the first wicket in 16 overs before Thom Trott split things up by removing both openers in the space of three overs as he returned the best Wellington figures on the day of 2-26 in 8 overs.

Kevin Symons and Rowan Varkevisser had opened up well for Wellington, but had not got the luck they deserved.

Steady middle order batting from Lydeard – who were runners-up in the division above Wellington last time out – saw that they were well placed to push on, but Wellington had done a good job in the middle portion of their time in the field and had kept Lydeard to 112-4 in 28 overs with Paul Short bowling with great control, but the home side scored 114 runs in the last 12 overs as former Wellington player Dave Proctor with 40 and Clift with 49no swung hard and collected eight sixes between them in this passage of play to dent Wellington’s control of matters – thus Lydeard ended on 226-6 in 40 overs.

Paul Short took 2-45 and there was a wicket apiece for Rowan Varkevisser and Max Capaldi.

Wellington’s innings never truly got going as no-one played the long lasting innings that was required to chase down the 227 required.

Rob Moysey with 16 steadied things early on, but wickets were always falling on a pitch that was taking spin – useful middle order contributions from Thom Trott (22), Max Capaldi (10), Kevin Crout (21) and Alec Short (18) kept Lydeard at bay and the hundred was posted with five wickets down, but Wookey (4-23) saw that the last five wickets were lost for only 20 runs and Bishops Lydeard had a 108 run win to their credit.