Wellington Cricket Club

All are reminded that membership fees for the 2010 season fall due on 1st April.

To this end all are asked to pay their membership fees on time and in full to ensure that all are covered by the Club’s insurance policy.

Fees for 2010 are £30.00 for seniors and £10.00 for all others.

Cheques should be made payable to ‘Wellington Cricket Club’ and should be forwarded to the Membership Secretary Marc Holloway.

For details please contact Marc via e-mail at marcholloway@dsl.pipex.com

Club members attention is drawn to the Good Friday groundworks session on Friday 2nd April.

We will looking at housekeeping tasks in the main from 9.30am, so please give a couple of hours of your time in this respect.

Pavilion and Score box areas will be attended to.

Wellington’s indoor side still harbour a hope of winning the Wellington School based Cougar Indoor League title following this win over South Petherton last weekend when they saw off the bottom side by 23 runs, dropping one point in the process.

Marc Holloway and Richard Henwood gave the Red and Blacks another good start before Holloway was caught at mid-off, having worked the ball around the arena well.

Henwood retired at 25no having mixed strong boundary play with good shots off the wall as he and Sam Murdock did well for Wellington.

Murdock – with another retirement score did very well – and looked in good form with the outdoor season coming up – he played the straight drive well.

Aks Latifi and Paul Short added another block of good runs to the Wellington total as they got to 139 all told.

George Hooper bowled well for Wellington first up as South Petherton gave it a real go and they had one back in the hutch early ready to return and were 58 in six overs to give Wellington a real headache, but Marc Holloway’s side kept going and Paul Short got a wicket for his efforts.

Holloway and Richard Henwood kept the pressure going and whittled away at the South Petherton line up with George Hooper’s one handed boundary catch been a highlight.

Wellington restricted South Petherton to 116-5 in 12 overs and have six wins in seven matches with Blagdon Hill to come on Sunday 11th April in the last match day of the winter season.

Michael arrives on Wednesday 31st March and it is proposed to use Easter Sunday evening as a social evening when Club members can meet Michael and make him feel welcome.

Meet at The Victoria Arms at 7.00pm on Sunday 4th April.

What – Ground Works 2010

Where – Courtland Road

When – Saturday 27th March, Sunday 28th March and Friday 2nd April, from 9.30am each time (remember the clocks go forward for the last two sessions!)

Why – To get the ground, pavilion, score box etc ready for 2010

Tonight the Management Committee has considered Nat West Cricket Force 2010 and what needs to be done.

The list of jobs to be done includes rolling the square, erecting the outdoor nets, clearing out and setting up the score box, checking the integrity of the covers ahead of the engineering work they require, taking out the benches in the pavilion lobby and checking over the sightscreens.

A commitment from Club members is now required as to what dates and times can be worked so as to get this work done.

The Secretary will be issuing a block e-mail over the weekend asking for this commitment to be made.

The usual Good Friday working party is still required.

A reminder for all Management Committee members that we are to meet at The Arts Centre, Eight Acre Lane, Wellington on Thursday 18th March from 7.30pm

The Secretary is aware of some absences, but if there are any more then please issue them via the usual channels ASAP.

An excellent first ever WCC Poker Night was held at The Dolphin Inn last Saturday when Club members and others played rounds of the Texas Hold ‘Em version of the game.

Twelve in total took part on two tables of six with the top three from each table going forward to a final game and those not in these blocks joined forces for a play-off of their own.

At the end of the night Simon Rudd triumphed on the main table with Paul Higgs and Kevin Crout taking second and third places respectively.

In the play-off match David Derrick won the match with Roly Phillips taking the runners-up spot.

Thanks to Richard Henwood for organising the event, to Nick Fenn of the Dolphin Inn and his staff for hosting and providing an excellent supper and to all who played.

The intention is to repeat the event in the summer.

Up to and including Sunday 7th March

The Club is delighted to be able to announce that local MP Jeremy Browne is to attend the latest of the Club’s youth coaching sessions to see the action and get a feel for what the project is about.

The session in question is that which will take place on Friday 12th March at Court Fields Community School from 6pm.