Wembdon 203 – Wellington 207-8

Wembdon were asked to bat first and started this Somerset League Division One match well with Puddy and Spilsbury putting on 38 in under 9 overs before Thom Trott made a triple breakthrough – Marc Holloway accepted two chances at mid-on from shots where the Wembdon batsmen tried to loft over the top, but failed to really get to the pitch.
Trott then yorked J.Brockwell and Wembdon were 46-3 and in trouble.
Trott bowled through and took 3-47 in 12 good overs.
Spilsbury was still there though and he and his skipper Lee added 103 fourth-wicket runs and with 15 overs to go Wembdon were looking to add perhaps another 80-100 runs and thus set Wellington a testing total.
But they fell away to be all out for 203 in 42.1 overs.
Gary Tillett wheeled away to good effect as he took 2-53 in 12 overs after initially coming under attack from Lee in particular.
Paul Short bowled better than 1-50 in 9.1 overs suggests and he took the last wicket to fall.
Rob Moysey joined the attack late on and had a big hand in dismantling Wembdon as he took 3-10 in 2 overs.
The home side had fallen away to the extent of been 176-4, losing their last six wickets for only 27 runs.
Wellington had done a good job to get the home side’s innings back on their own terms.

Wellington started their reply slowly as Bingham and J.Brockwell bowled an impressive opening spell and at 26-2 with both openers gone, Wellington needed some consolidation.
It and more came from the bats of Alex Sparks (47) and Julian Smit (59) who added a priceless 103 runs for the third wicket, both played some excellent shots all round the wicket and they got Wellington to within some seventy of the target required and with several wickets in hand it seemed that Wellington were on the right track, but a collapse from 129-2 to 137-6 endangered their position and it took some canny play from Mark Saunders and Paul Short to redeem the Red and Blacks.
This pair added 47 for the seventh wicket and this was what righted a keeling ship. Short played his best knock of the season and saw things through to the end with 32no and Saunders (24) played a steady knock that saw him hit four boundaries as well.
But the rollercoaster was not ready to stop just yet as 184-6 became 184-8 and it took a feisty innings of 15no in nine balls from Kevin Symons to make the win secure and give Wellington 35 points from a two wicket win.
Wembdon took 19 from this match and still have a lot of work to do if they are to avoid a second successive relegation.