Wellington Cricket Club

The next Management Committee meeting will take place at The Arts Centre, Eight Acre Lane, Wellington on Thursday 18th March from 7.30pm.

Management Committee members should refer to e-mails from the Secretary that contain details of this new meeting.

Our usual Good Friday groundworks session will take place on Friday 2nd April from 9.30am.

The usual preparations for the new season will need to be done and this will also be used as a chance for people to register as members for the 2010 season and pay the appropriate fee.

The next meeting of the Management Committee was due to take place on Wednesday 31st March at The Arts Centre, Eight Acre Lane, Wellington from 7.30pm onwards, but as this is the same day as our Overseas Player for 2010 – Michael Gill – will be arriving from South Africa, so an alternative date is now to be found.

Management Committee members will be contacted by e-mail with details and should respond accordingly.

The Management Committee was informed last week that the Club has been accepted for Cricket Force 2010 that will take place on Friday 26th, Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th March.

This is an extra opportunity to perform essential work on the Pavilion.

Details of Cricket Force can be obtained from Simon Rudd and Paul Short.

A reminder that we are holding a Poker Night at  The Dolphin Inn, Waterloo Road, Wellington on Saturday 13th March from 7.30pm.

This is the first Club social event of the new season and we hope to see as many as possible coming along be it to play, watch or just meet up.

Please contact either Richard Henwood (0777 820 5093) or David Derrick (0751 648 2923) to register as a player by Sunday 7th March at the latest.

The second half of the application for this award is to become a big feature of the work that will be done before the start of and into the early part of the new season.

Vice Chairman Simon Spalding and Secretary David Derrick will be overseeing the completion of the Club’s evidence file and ask all to give of their time when asked to in this respect as was the case last year where sections one and two were concerned.

The work done already will be reviewed too and updated where it is felt this course of action is needed and justified.

This award is a perfect complement to the current youth coaching and development project and the Management Committee is most grateful to Simon that he has agreed to take on the role of development officer with particular respect to youth cricket.

Meet at The Arts Centre, Eight Acre Lane, Wellington from 7.30pm on Wednesday 17th February.
Please let DD have any apologies for absence via e-mail,david230275@googlemail.com

1030 – Sampford Arundel v Up the ‘Grove
1130 – South Petherton v Stogumber
1230 – Stogumber v Wellington
1330 – Wellington v Cullompton
1430 – Curry Rivel v Queen’s
1530 – Blagdon Hill v Queen’s

Wellington lost the toss in this, their fourth match of the Cougar Cricket Indoor League campaign and was asked to bat writes team skipper Marc Holloway.

Marc Holloway and Richard Henwood opened the batting and got things moving quickly, going at ten an over, Holloway was the first to go after batting in some discomfort; he was caught off the wall trying to hit out.

Thom Trott arrived at the crease and cracked a breezy 18 runs in next to no time, looking good for his 25 he was cleaned up trying to go for another maximum, all the time Henwood was nudging the score along.

At 50-2 Aks Latifi was at the crease and he was looking well set having worked the ball well around the arena so as to bring the field in, but he was then caught off the wall going for a big one.

This brought Adrian Lee to the crease, but Henwood followed Latifi back the very next ball as he too was caught off the roof for a well made 15.

‘Pirate’ Paul Short arrived at the crease and he and Lee batted brilliantly to ensure that they took the score from 65-4 to 136-5 with Lee hitting a couple of sixes and Short rotating the strike and picking the gaps at will, this was a top effort with one eye!

These two really did set up the game for Wellington and ensured that they reached a great total to bowl at.

Curry Rivel’s reply started slowly with Trott picking up a wicket in his first over; Lee bowled a useful spell as his swing bowling gained rewards again through the seamed ball that is used in these games doing good work for him.

Trott is really coming into his own this winter as he again found some excellent channels with his bowling and was really sending down some unplayable deliveries.

Curry was on 50-2 after 5 overs and was still in the game, but the continued pressure from the tight line and length that Henwood offered and superb variation from Paul Short enabled Wellington to squeeze Curry out of the game.

Excellent fielding from all with superb backing up ensured that Wellington won this contest by 13 runs as Curry were all out on the final ball with Latifi keeping superbly behind the stumps and this could be invaluable as he could well be doing the job outdoors this season.

Sincere thanks go to Dave Derrick for umpiring again.