Wellington 2nd XI’s batting got going at times in this home Somerset League Division Four game with Kilmington and Stourton last weekend, but not sufficiently all innings to give them a first win of the season and they remain rooted to the bottom.

With Ryan Adams taking charge K and S, who had made a fifty mile plus journey from the Wiltshire border, won the toss and elected to bat first and at 62-4 Wellington were pleased to be in the field as Macaulay Campbell led their effort by taking a five wicket bag as he saw off players from the top, middle and bottom orders to record an analysis of 5-22 in nine excellent overs.

Tom Perry backed matters up with 1-16 in six overs and wickets also came the way of George Coate, Ryan Adams, Lewis Sparks and Trevor Brooks who was pressed into service once more with the ball and took the most acceptable figures of 1-25 in nine overs with a couple of maidens thrown in for good measure.

Chinnock with 40 and Ross with 45 were K and S’s main contributors with the bat as 40 extras boosted their score to 190 all out.

After losing a wicket at ten Trevor Brooks and Mark Bray added 24 second wicket runs, but when Bray was run out for 13 he picked up a leg injury; a double blow…

Brooks made a capital 33, but when he was sixth out at 83 Wellington’s second string were short of the required total by over one hundred runs.

Tom Perry, Callum Hendy and Macaulay Campbell, with knocks of 22, 10 and 27 respectively, regained some ground, but with the score on 149 the game was all over when George Coate was out with Fry taking 3-26 in eight overs to be K and S’s best show with the ball as they collected 34 points to Wellington’s 17.