Wellington Sunday XI 223-8 Taunton St Andrews Sunday XI 224-4
This was a disappointing end to June for Wellington Sunday XI as they lost out to WEPL Premier One side Taunton St Andrews at home last weekend by six wickets having made a decent enough total, but then not been able to take advantage of reducing the visitors to 93-4 as their fifth wicket pairing of J.Poole and P.Morrish got the runs with no further loss as they added 131 unbroken.
TSA won the toss and Alex Sparks and John Paine got Wellington’s innings going well until Paine edged one through to Wyatt at slip.
That was all that went to hand for the next 27 overs as Sparks and Rob Moysey added 170 for Wellington’s second wicket – this was an excellent partnership anyway, but bearing in mind that Moysey was suffering with a groin strain that he had suffered on 1st team duty at North Petherton the previous day to bat for as long as he did was a testament to his powers of concentration as he was restricted in terms of running capacity – he still found the time to hit seven fours and had made it to 49no when he retired at the thirty over mark.
Sparks played a majestic innings of 104 as he timed the ball superbly with seventeen fours and a couple of sixes until he was trapped LBW by Chandler who took a fine 5-33 in 10 overs. This was his second Sunday ton of the season and he is in good touch currently.
Adrian Lee made a brisk 25 and Jake Nicol contributed 10 at the end as Wellington closed on 223-8 at tea.
Two excellent teas were enjoyed over the weekend and thanks go to Lesley Derrick for serving the 2nd XI’s on Saturday and to Amanda Moysey for preparing and serving this game’s.
Adrian Lee got rid of T.Poole early, but through Burge (39) and R.Morrish (27) TSA got into the fifties and were well set until Jake Nicol found himself on a hat-trick.
Burge departed with the score on 93-4 as Alex Troake, who bowled some excellent leg-spin on the day, got the right amount of loop and flight and 1-26 in 8 overs was a good stint by the teenager.
Wellington tried all options available to them, but TSA – through J.Poole (76no) and P.Morrish (44no) – got home with seven balls to spare as they mixed good running between the wickets with boundaries when they could.
Adrian Lee returned for a second spell, but Wellington could not prevent their three match Sunday XI winning streak from going.
The side travel to Axminster this weekend.
