Wellington Cricket Club

Rob Moysey (Capt), Aks Latifi (Wkt), Marc Holloway, Michael Gill, Adrian Lee, James Bath, Sam Murdock, Sam Baycock, Liam Kubicki, Alex Troake and Scott Davey.

Depart from Courtland Road Car Park at 12.15pm for a 1.30pm start.

Contact Rob Moysey for details.

Sunday 12th September – North Newton v Wellington

Saturday 18th September – North Curry v North Petherton

Wellington Sunday XI clinched promotion to Division A of the Taunton and District Sunday League for next season with this 73 run full points win at North Petherton last Saturday and with it secured runners-up spot with one game still to play.
 
This match was due to have been played back in July, but due to the Wellington Under 15s run to the National stages of the ECB cup for their age group it was postponed and re-scheduled for after the end of the regular season and on a green, but hard track Wellington were put into bat and saw a most solid start to their innings come about from Michael Gill and Tom Baycock who added 73 for the first wicket – Gill played a fine hand that totalled 98 and he was just short of a ton when he was out caught and Baycock, who made 16, was a fine foil for the free-flowing South African.
 
For North Petherton off spinner Bunce has bowled well in all four games this season between the two sides – two Somerset League Division One and two Sunday League Division B matches – and his burst of  2-14 in seven overs was a fine effort and he was on a hat-trick, but that was about as good as it got for North Petherton as Gill continued to plunder at will all round the park and with Scott Davey who made a Wellington best of 45no he added 100 for the third wicket before going on the stroke of a ton.
 
Davey played a great hand and was just denied a maiden fifty by the overs running out, but he and Neil Hendy with 30no saw that Wellington got to the 200 mark and past it and so collected full batting points with 219-3 at tea been the final total for the Red and Blacks.
 
North Petherton were very slow out of the blocks and this cautious tactic saw their chances of overhauling the 220 needed become very slim indeed as Everett – despite making 44 – took an age to make this total; Jake Nichol took the first two wickets to fall as he took 2-7 in 7 overs and let little go in a fine spell and George Hooper complimented at the other end with 0-7 in 4 overs, but the going was slow and Wellington were having to work very hard for the wickets.
 
Sam Murdock with 2-30 in 7 overs delivered in two bursts got a much needed breakthrough for Wellington and doubled his tally later on.
 
Spin in the form of Sam Baycock with his slow left armers and Rob Moysey’s wrist spin was also pivotal in Wellington removing the stubborn North Petherton line up as the Red and Blacks chipped away to claim a full allocation of 25 points eventually and the job was done by Tom Baycock and Scott Davey with three wickets between them and in the last over when Perkins was bowled by Davey a cheer went up for a job well done and a fifth win in seven matches and promotion along with divisional champions Taunton St Andrews.
 
Wellington have one game left to play in the League and they travel to North Newton on Sunday 12th September for a match that starts at 1.30pm; depart from Courtland Road Car Park at 12.15pm please and notification of selection will be made via Rob Moysey and David Derrick by Thursday.

Saturday 4th September – North Petherton v Wellington

Sunday 5th September – North Petherton v North Curry

Sunday 12th September – North Newton v Wellington

Saturday 18th September – North Curry v North Petherton

Sunday 5th September – Bridgwater v Street and Wembdon v Minehead (2 x 20/20)

Rob Moysey (Capt), Michael Gill, Aks Latifi, Neil Hendy, Tom Baycock, Sam Baycock, George Hooper, James Bath, Scott Davey, Sam Murdock and Jake Nichol 12th Man – Patrick Jarman

Depart from Courtland Road Car Park at 12.15pm for a 1.30pm start.

Contact Rob Moysey for details.

The details of our September matches can be found elsewhere on this site and players are invited to make known their availability for matches on Saturday 4th, Sunday 5th, Sunday 12th and Sunday 19th September.

Selection for the first two matches will take place on Wednesday 1st September.

Text availability to Rob Moysey, David Derrick or Steve Symons.

On Saturday 4th September the Sunday XI travel to fellow SCL Division One side North Petherton for their penultimate Sunday League match and will be looking for a good result to secure second place at least and a position in Division A for 2011.
 
Sunday 5th September sees a visit to WEPL Bristol and Somerset Division side Chard for a friendly match.
 
Sunday 12th September sees the Sunday League wrap up at SCL Division Two side North Newton and the week after (Sunday 19th September) the season concludes at SCL Division Three side Langport with a friendly match.
 
The first three games in this series will start at 1.30pm and the final one at 1.00pm.
 
Details from Rob Moysey and David Derrick ref the two league games and from Steve Symons ref the two friendly matches.

The meeting of the top two in Division B of the Taunton and District Sunday League at the Wyvern Club last Sunday served up an absolute corker of a game, but Wellington will feel they should have inflicted a first defeat on Taunton St Andrews as they had the WEPL Premier One side at 144-9 with just four overs left and this should have been the platform for the Red and Blacks to have the unbeaten record and not the other way round – Wellington have a game in hand over Taunton St Andrews who complete their programme of eight games against North Petherton at home next weekend and this fall of the fixtures will see Wellington have two games to play and they can achieve a maximum haul of 180 points if they win at North Petherton and North Newton in September, Taunton St Andrews can end on 186, so it is still all to play for.

Paul Short opted to bat first and although Wellington lost a wicket in the first over Taunton St Andrews were wayward with the new ball as Chandler and Clatworthy sent down an assortment of wides and no balls to boost Wellington’s run rate – Marc Holloway was the foundation of the Wellington innings as he made a capital 67 with ten fours and a six during his time at the crease; he received excellent support from James Bath (23) and Aks Latifi (11) as three figures was approached by Wellington – Michael Gill with 31 was the main contributor as the innings continued as Taunton St Andrews regained some of the ground that had been lost early on – T.Poole with 4-41 in seven overs and Brice with 3-20 also in seven did good work for the home side as Wellington were bowled out for 172 with 4.1 overs left – a factor that was to come into play later.

Taunton St Andrews should have been one down in the first over, but J.Poole survived and he and Davis added 26 first wicket runs until Paul Short joined the attack and with his first ball got Poole to chip one to Michael Gill at short mid wicket, Wellington then began chipping away at the Taunton St Andrews line up as George Hooper got rid of home skipper L.Poole as he was cutting loose.

Taunton St Andrews first team player Alley threw the kitchen sink at a delivery from Max Capaldi and found Paul Short taking a blinding catch as Wellington became the dominant force in the game; Michael Gill’s excellent 3-15 in seven overs with a great caught and bowled effort to see off Wyatt seemed to have done the trick for Wellington as he also got rid of Dimond and Clatworthy in one over and allied to Aks Latifi’s clever catch to remove Brice as he tried to reverse sweep left arm spinner Sam Baycock Taunton St Andrews were 144-9 and had subsided and only had Chandler and Baldock left; Wellington strangled the run rate and were pushing for a great win over the County Town side, but Chandler and Baldock hung around although the runs needed were in Wellington’s favour, but four byes and a couple of wides in the last over meant the game was still alive just and it then went wrong for Wellington as Baldock hit a four that reared up and over the boundary after seeming to be a straightforward carpet shot that was destined to be fielded simply so seeing that Taunton St Andrews needed one to tie and two to win and having tied the game at Wellington back in June could such a rare result happen twice in one fixture in one season? A nudge for one off of the last ball of the game brought the scores level, but Wellington went for broke and the win and tried to negate the run by running out Baldock, but it went through for a second and Taunton St Andrews had got out of jail in spectacular circumstances and Wellington were left to wonder how.