Wellington Cricket Club

Wellington’s opening competitive match of the 2012 season was scuppered by the week’s heavy rains and that their Courtland Road ground’s outfield was too wet to be tended to and so saw their match with WEPL Premier One club Bridgwater called off.

The match – in Division A of the Taunton and District Sunday League – was called off at 9.30am on Saturday morning and sees both sides take 10 points each.

Wellington’s next match in this competition is on Sunday 10th June when they host Somerset League Division Two side North Newton.

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.

We commence pre-season training at Court Fields Community School’s Sports Hall on Wednesday 29th February until Wednesday 11th April.

These sessions will be evening based ones running from 7.00pm – 8.30pm and more details are available from Club Captain Paul Short.

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.