Wellington find themselves one place outside of the danger zone in the Somerset Division of the West of England Premier League after this rain affected loss to Chard at home last weekend.

The raw scoreline does not give the true result as the weather got in the way of a third game so far this season and it saw the 12 overs were lost and Wellington were, in effect, chasing 142 to win, but they were reduced to 34-7 in 10 overs as Chard were in more robust form than had been the case when the two sides had met in the Baker Cup Quarter Finals just five days earlier.

Wellington, for the second game running, got a wicket in the first over of the game after winning the toss and asking the opposition to bat first when Johnson was run out as Alex Sparks and Zandre Swartz combined.

This saw Chard consolidate with a 58 run second wicket stand between Waller and Wright; Waller was stumped by Zandre Swartz for 17 off of the excellent off spin delivered by Dom Drew who took 2-26 in 10 accurate overs.

Arron Campbell – purveying the same trade – delivered ten overs of his own in two spells and went for just 20 runs and took two wickets of his own.

These players – aged 17 and 19 – did extremely well for their side.

Wright with 72 and Dening with 38 were the bulk of the Chard batting effort as Wellington dismissed their visitors with nearly five overs left unused.

Paul Short was the third off spinner used by Wellington and he joined his colleagues in taking two wickets with seamers Jack Beal and Ian Hewson taking one apiece to wrap things up at 187 all for Chard.

Wellington’s reply was affected by the rain and ultimately this would see they would need, by WEPL’s rules, 142 from 38 overs, but after ten overs they were 34-7 as only Zandre Swartz, with 14, made double figures of the top order as Chard bowled with gusto.

Aks Latifi and Jack Beal resisted and in five overs added 49 runs as Beal hit four sixes and in the end made an unbeaten 52no for his side with Latifi’s 15 been of high value.

Beal, along with Dom Drew and Ian Hewson, got their side to three figures, but when Hewson was adjudged to be out caught behind Wellington had lost by 32 runs in real terms.

Wells-Burr with 4-30 was Chard’s best bowler and the wickets were shared as runs and wickets flowed in equal amounts.

Chard took 20 points to Wellington’s five.