Wellington Cricket Club

We do not play a Sunday game for three weeks now until Sunday 10th June when we host North Newton in the Sunday League.

Our schedule is as follows for this short period.

- Sunday 20th May SCCC Disabled XI are playing at WCC from 1.00pm; any help that anyone can give for an hour or two would be appreciated.

- Sunday 27th May 2012′s Big Day Out to watch SCCC v Hampshire at Taunton in the 40 over competition.

- Sunday 3rd June SCCC Disabled XI are with us once more as per the details for Sunday 20th May.

The Under 15s squad, family and friends are holding a Bavarian Oompah Night at Wellington Football Club on Saturday 26th May in aid of the end of season youth presentations.

Cost with supper is £10 for adults and £5 for juniors.

Please support the event as much as you can.

Details and tickets can be obtained from Des Campbell on 0751 628 5613.

We have two non league games at Sidmouth and Staplegrove on Sunday 6th May and Sunday 13th May respectively and then we take a break from match action until Sunday 10th June.        

• Sunday 20th May – We were due to be hosting Uphill Castle CC on this date, but the match was pulled from the schedule pre-season as the Weston Super Mare based club has a National KO Cup match on that date and that is the higher priority all round. This is now a free date.        
• Sunday 27th May – Somerset are playing at home to Hampshire on this date in the National 40 Over a Side competition and already some WCC members have purchased tickets for this game; it would be good to turn this date into 2012’s Big Day Out as we did for the match with India last year. Go to www.somersetcountycc.co.uk/tickets for details and to purchase your tickets.        
• Sunday 3rd June – We have another event involving the County Club when the SCCC Dragons side come to WCC to play a match; help will be required on the day and details of this will be issued when available.        
• Sunday 10th June – We resume match action with a Sunday League game at home to North Newton CC.

To further strengthen our good links with other sporting Clubs in the town we have made the necessary arrangements to be represented at both the Wellington RFC and Wellington AFC end of season Dinner events in May.

Club Chairman Duncan Short and his wife Judith will be attending the Rugby event on Friday 4th May and George Coate and Joanna Correya will be attending the Football event two weeks later.

The Club are grateful to Duncan, Judith, George and Joanna for giving up their time to represent the Club at these external events.

You can book your slot at October’s Golf Day at http://www.scarylong.com/golfdays/list_times.php?event_number=27

The event is another combined one with Wellington RFC and is again being held at the excellent Oake Manor course.

Details will be carried in this year’s fixture card and are also available from Simon Rudd and Julian Jones.

The WCC Past Players Association has been constituted with a view to holding an inaugural meeting and lunch event at The Long Hop Bar on Saturday 30th June when the 1st XI host Temple Cloud in Division One of the Somerset League.

The plan is to host the inaugural AGM at 12.45pm and formalise matters and elect officers and agree a constitution before taking lunch at 1.30pm with the game beginning at 1.45pm - look out for details in the local press soon.

Contact Keith Colman (01823 663307), Matt Colman (01823 666898) or Chris Rudd (01823 667707) for details of the Association and how to join in.

Kevin Crout is again running a Fantasy League competition for us in 2012 and you can enter for £5 at http://wellingtoncc.easyfantasycricket.com  

Every senior game we play this season counts, so all Saturday, all Sunday and all Midweek matches go in to the pot as such.

Contact Kevin for details - points scoring starts on Saturday 14th April.

With the Easter weekend coming up we have decided to postpone our Curry Night that is in association with The Taste of Spice Restaurant of Wiveliscombe; many who would have attended are away and so numbers were not as high as we hoped for.

Another date will be found and details will be issued when they are available.

We are playing away to Exeter CC on Saturday 21st April in a pre-season match and Club Captain Paul Short has plans to make this match a social occasion as well providing good match practice.

Contact Paul for details and to add your name to those attending.

We will be joining forces with Wellington RFC for another Golf Day at Oake Manor Golf Club on Friday 19th October.

Details from Simon Rudd and Julian Jones or in time at www.scarylong.com