Wellington Cricket Club

Wellington 2nd XI were despatched by league leaders Chard to the tune of ten wickets last weekend as the home side made it four maximum point wins out of four in Division One of the Somerset League Reserves competition and sent the Red and Blacks second string to ninth place in the division.

The toss was lost for the fourth time this season and Wellington were asked to take first knock and against as good a reserve team attack as you will get Gray (1-16 in 10 overs) and A.Cleal (3-24 in 12 overs) did a fine job for Chard.

Wellington needed to survive and did a good enough job in testing circumstances as skipper Richard Henwood held firm for 23 overs for a gritty 25 – he was out caught in the covers to the only bad shot he played.

Martin Short hit the ball crisply on his way to 30 and was doing great work, but he was run out when a call for a single went wrong and from 80-5 Wellington lost five wickets for one run to be all out for 81 in 37.1 overs.

Dening with 2-13 and Chard skipper Wyatt with 3-16 bowled some excellent left-arm and off spin to compliment the seam bowling of earlier.

Chard had ten overs before tea was taken to start the pursuit of the 82 needed to win and got half of them or so by the interval.

Durrance with 29no and McVey with 46no did the job for the home side as Wellington strived for a breakthrough, but could not make one.

Chard took 35 points and look very, very strong title contenders and Wellington only four and need to get back on track at home to Street next weekend.