Wellington and Sampford Arundel got the 2010-2011 Cougar Cricket Indoor League season underway at Wellington School on Sunday morning and the Red and Blacks recorded their first indoor win over Sampford Arundel for some time as they held sway by a margin of nine runs following some good tight bowling late on.

Sampford Arundel asked Wellington to bat on winning the toss and saw that Paul Short and Neil Hendy were both run out within the first three overs and Sampford were in the ascendancy through Pete Kittow and Laurence Burns who had taken the new ball.

Richard Henwood made a cautious 25no and retired for Wellington as he worked the ball well around the arena, but had to be mindful that his side could ill afford to lose any more wickets.

Michael Gill made 24 good runs before been caught off the wall in the last over and when Aks Latifi was run out off the last ball of the Wellington innings the Red and Blacks had made 101-4 in 1o overs – a decent rate.

For Sampford Arundel all their bowlers did a good job as Seb Coe and Vince Milton showed mid innings.

Dave Kittow and Vince Milton got Sampford off to a good start, although Neil Hendy had a couple of fine LBW shouts in his three overs.

Kittow and Milton got their side into the forties when Milton was caught off the ceiling off of Michael Gill; Seb Coe came into bat and worked the ball to leg very well, but Wellington contained the Sampford line up well with a well marshalled back line and some great wicket to wicket bowling from Richard Henwood and Sam Murdock that saw the rate rise and with 23 needed from the last over only 14 runs came the way of Sampford Arundel and Wellington took 19 points to Arundel’s eight.

Wellington next play on Sunday 17th October at 12.30pm against Stogumber. Contact Paul Short for details