Wellington Cricket Club

The Taunton and District Sunday League will be meeting at WCC at 8.00pm on Thursday 22nd March when its League Committee holds its Spring Meeting for 2012; this is the meeting when all match balls and handbooks for the season ahead are dispensed, so WCC will be both hosting and attending.

Fixture Secretary Steve Symons is working towards completing the WCC Sunday and Midweek XI fixture lists for 2012; our Sunday League schedule is complete and is available on this website already.

Our Sunday Non League and Midweek schedule is well advanced and will be posted when Steve says to do so.

We also look forward to welcoming Somerset Dragons to our facilities in 2012; the Dragons are a branch of the SCCC Disabled squad and they will be playing at WCC on Sunday 3rd June (when the Sunday XI are playing at North Perrott) and on other dates as can be fitted in depending on our Club arrangements.

Sam Murdock has won this award, meaning that WCC has completed a clean sweep of the awards on offer for the 2011 season.

Rob Moysey and Paul Short have won the batting and bowling awards respectively in Division A of the Taunton and District Sunday League; their prize is a £25 voucher to spend at League sponsors Somerset County Sports.

The League’s AGM and Presentation Evening is at Taunton’s Wyvern Club on Friday 18th November at 7.15pm; Sam Murdock is in the mix for the Division’s Young Player Award, so it may yet be a clean sweep of awards for WCC!

Our first fixture news for next season has been announced with the release of our Taunton and District Sunday League Division A schedule by Fixture Secretary Steve Symons.

Our schedule is as follows

Saturday 28th April – Bridgwater (h)        

Sunday 10th June – North Newton (h)    

Sunday 17th June – Chard (h)                     

Sunday 8th July – Wembdon (h)               

Sunday 29th July – Wembdon (a)              

Sunday 19th August – North Newton (a)

Sunday 26th August – Bridgwater (a)

Sunday 2nd September – Chard (a)

Next season’s Sunday League divisional formats have been issued and will see us playing Bridgwater CC, Chard CC, North Newton CC and Wembdon CC in Section A, where we were runners-up in 2011.

Fixture Secretary Steve Symons is bringing together this particular fixture list as well as the non league aspect of the side’s schedule.

Rob Moysey with 222 runs at 74, Paul Short with 8 wickets at 14.13 and Sam Murdock for his performances over the course of the season just passed are our contenders and nomination for the awards offered by the Taunton and District Sunday Cricket League.

Rob and Paul are in line for the Section A batting and bowling awards and Sam is our nominated young player of the season for Section A; the prize on offer per award is a £25 voucher that is redeemable at League Sponsors Somerset County Sports.

Although losing out by six wickets in a high scoring match Wellington Sunday XI secured the runners up spot in Division A of the Taunton and District Sunday League to make it two honours in the two seasons that the League has been running for; with 126 points from their eight games Paul Short’s side were just three points behind Chard, who retained their crown and despite the win Taunton St Andrews are to play in Division B next season after finishing bottom.

Wellington were put into bat last Saturday and saw Paul Short and Max Capaldi race away and have 50 on the board in no time as both pounced on the overpitched ball well; Capaldi had made 17 when Brice (2-26 in 7) bowled him with one that nipped back.

Short was closing on a half century having driven the ball well, but he went for a sweep against T.Poole and was bowled for 38 and at 70-3 Wellington were in need of some steadying – it came through the excellent fourth wicket stand of 92 between Alex Sparks and Charlie Davies – Davies made 37 solid runs and was only undone by the excellent left arm spin of Contreras, Sparks cracked a splendid 101no with four mighty sixes and his unbeaten 77 run stand with George Hooper (28no) took the Red and Blacks to 259-5 at tea.

Taunton St Andrews could not avoid going down even if they won as they needed every point on offer and their collection of just two bowling points confirmed their fate, but they were in no mood to go down without a real fight and Alley and J.Poole with a 146 opening wicket stand won the match in the first twenty overs of their reply with Alley making 100 with some fine shots to boot; Max Capaldi ended the fun when he trapped him LBW. Poole had made 36 when he was bowled by Paul Short.

The run rate slowed up and in the end TSA only won with ten balls to spare as Contreras with 56no and L.Poole with 33no saw them home, but they deserved to win given their start; TSA took 19 points and Wellington 12 and in the end saw very different outcomes to their Sunday League seasons.

Although Bridgwater overwhelmed Chard on the Sunday their lack of five junior players and not bowling Chard out worked for Wellington in that they only claimed 22 points and so ended the season two points behind the Red and Blacks in third place.

Division A                                               

Division B                                               

Division C