Wellington were comprehensively beaten by a strong Street side in the Somerset League Division One.

Wellington batted first on a glorious day, getting off to a fairly strong start with openers Mark Salter (23) and Rob Moysey (15) putting on a first wicket partnership of 34 before Moysey was bowled.

From here on Wellington struggled with only Simon Rudd putting up any real resistance, top scoring with 25. Strong batting from Gary Tillett at the death helped Wellington to a respectable total scoring 19 not out ably supported by Alec Short who made 16.

The highlight of the Wellington innings was Stuart Currall’s towering six, which flew over the sidescreen.

Wellington got off to a great bowling start with Tom Trott clean bowling the Street opener in his first over. Trott and Adrian Lee bowled economically and were unlucky on many occasions not to have got more wickets.

Trott should have had a break through, taking the wicket of Pope who clearly edged behind for Alec Short to take a good catch.
Unfortunately the umpire did not hear the sound and the batsman refused to walk. Pope went on to make a match-winning 107 not out.

Tillett and Moysey bowled tightly on a pitch that was favourable to the batsman with Alec Short keeping wicket to a high standard. Poor fielding enabled Street to race to victory going from 21-1 after 9 overs to 149-1 after 30.
The pick of the Wellington bowling attack was Tom Trott who took 1-28 who constantly beat the batsmen.