Wellington Cricket Club

The Under 13s recorded a fine cup win over Bagborough when they defended their total of 63 by bowling out their visitors by 59 in the last over.

Bagborough had been cruising the game at 55-4 with three overs to go, so well done to all of Paul Rowlandson’s team and they can look forward to the next round.

Richard Henwood (Capt), Kevin Crout (Wkt), Trevor Brooks, Mark Salter, Neil Hendy, Charlie Davies, Sam Cook, George Hooper, Adrian Lee, Darren Davis, Aaron Chugg.

Meet at Pavilion at 12.30pm for a 2.00pm start.

Details from Richard Henwood.

Paul Short (Capt), Thom Trott, Aks Latifi (Wkt), Luke Desave, Michael Gill, Indika Weerawarna, Rob Moysey, Sam Murdock, James Bath, Marc Holloway, Alex Sparks

Meet at Courtland Road Car Park promptly at 11.00am.

Details from Paul Short.

Richard Henwood won the toss and asked Frome – who had not played a game previously this season due to the weather – to bat and the home side were shot out for 97 in 40 overs as Wellington controlled things from first to last.

Adrian Lee and Neil Hendy let nothing go as they took 2-23 in 12 overs and 4-17 in 10 overs respectively – Hendy removed Frome skipper Cantrell for a duck; one of three catches for Sam Cook as his accurate medium pace was not mastered by Frome.

Lee was accurate too and he and Hendy formed a formidable opening attack.

They gave way to George Hooper who worked up good pace in taking 2-27 in seven good overs and Richard Henwood with 2-24 in 11 overs was miserly too as no Frome player made over 17.

Wellington’s fielding was top quality with George Hooper, Aaron Chugg and Arron Campbell all doing sterling work for their side.

The game was sealed by a 38 run opening stand that was shared by Trevor Brooks who made 41no and Kevin Crout with 13.

Charlie Davies joined Brooks to take the score to 75 when he was trapped LBW for a good 23 and Neil Hendy completed the job with 10no as Wellington took 35 points from an eight wicket win.

The team take on 1st XI opposition in Kilve next week at home.

Wellington top the Somerset League following this 34 run win over Watchet who were the bottom side going into the game, but Paul Short’s side were frustrated by an obdurate display from Watchet’s lower order having earlier blown a 147 run opening stand to be all out – in effect – for 48.

Paul Short opted to bat first on winning the toss and it was he and Marc Holloway who took the visiting attack apart to the tune of 147 glorious runs in 30 overs; Short cracked 80 with nine fours and a six as he was the dominant factor in the stand early and as it developed Holloway stepped up a gear and made 57 good runs of his own.

Watchet were bereft of ideas having conceded 257 and 237 in the two previous games and were on course for the same result, but the run out of Holloway saw Wellington collapse in spectacular style as they were all out for just 48 more runs and thus dropped a batting bonus point.

Alex Sparks with 28 was in good touch, but the Red and Blacks were all out with 3.3 overs left.

Watchet showed excellent spirit as Lovell with 5-38 and R.Strong with 4-14 gave Wellington a nasty surprise and they would need 196 to win.

Thom Trott and Luke Desave throttled the run rate to see that Watchet would not really threaten the required total, but they batted with a steely resolve that would see Wellington claim only seven of the ten wickets on offer.

James Bath was electric in the field as he ran out both Manley and R.Strong with direct hits and he generally was a real live wire in the field.

Sam Murdock bowled with good pace and zip to take 2-24 in eight overs delivered in two spells and the teasing spin of Indika Weerawarna realised 3-20 in 10 overs and at 65-6 with only Bishop’s 24 being an innings of note for Watchet Wellington were closing in on a big win, but C.Strong with 42no, Lovell with 20 and Jones with 20no saw that only one more wicket fell in 17 overs and this was frustrating for Paul Short’s side who took 31 points to Watchet’s 18.

Wellington are top by 13 points from Temple Cloud who suffered a home defeat to Ashbrittle last weekend and are off to last season’s Division Two runners up Kilmington and Stourton on Saturday and it is they who now prop the division up.

Des Campbell’s team won two games in one day when they saw off Taunton St Andrews in a Taunton and District Youth League game this morning and then travelled to Bridgwater this afternoon for a Cup game and won that too.

In the game with TSA they hit 81 and then defended this total to win by around 25 runs and then having restricted Bridgwater to 99 we knocked off the runs in 17 overs.

All in all a good day’s work for the team.

The Club took a break from Sunday action on Sunday 20th May to play host to the Somerset County Disabled XI in their match with Dorset and it is pleasing to be able to report that Somerset won by eight wickets having been set just 42 to win.

A good number of spectators were present on the best day of the season so far and it is thanks to Simon Rudd, Richard Henwood, David Derrick and Steve Symons for their efforts on the day that things ran smoothly.

SCCC Dragons are at WCC on Sunday 3rd June.

A reminder to the Management Committee that we meet on Wednesday 23rd May from 8.00pm in the Long Hop Bar after senior training has ended.

Any apologies for absence to David Derrick in the usual way please.

The Under 13s are playing at home to Bagborough on Tuesday 22nd May in a KO Cup match.

This match is eleven a side and Team Manager Paul Rowlandson asks for all the squad to be present by 6.00pm at WCC.

If you cannot make this game then please call Paul on 0798 084 4852 ASAP.