Wellington Cricket Club

Rob Moysey (Capt), Paul Short, Aaron Campbell, Aaron Chugg, Charlie Davies, Robin Davies, Aks Latifi (Wkt), Tom Hawkings, Paul Melville, Sam Cook, Ollie Wilkins

Meet at Pavilion at 12.30pm for a 1.30pm start.

Paul Short (Capt), Thom Trott, Rob Moysey, Max Capaldi, Aks Latifi (Wkt), Luke Desave, Sam Murdock, Will Hinchcliffe, Indika Weerawarna, Charlie Davies, Adrian Lee

Meet at Courtland Road Car Park at 11.15am for a 1.00pm start.

Taunton Deane won the toss and batted first and saw Wylie and Axon make solid, but slow progress against the new ball as George Hooper, Adrian Lee and Sam Murdock let nothing go and had Wellington held their chances the partnership would not have realised the 56 in 20 overs of the 45 available.

It was broken by new signing Indika Weerawarna whose darting and biting spin took 3-33 in 9 controlled overs – he looked good with the ball and later with the bat too.

Wellington continued to spill chances too often for their liking, so it was left to the bowlers to do the job and Rob Moysey with 2-27 in 8 overs of leg spin did a fine job as always.

Deane skipper J.Squire hit a fine 65 as he used the short leg side boundary to good effect with eight fours and two big sixes.

Sam Murdock with 3-35 in 9 overs cleaned up the tail and Alex Sparks – who was captain on the day – took the last wicket to see Taunton Deane were all out for 187 with four balls left.

Charlie Davies slammed 23 in 13 balls as Wellington’s reply got off to a rapid start, but from 25-0 to 41-6 was a steep decline as Florey with an eventual 5-39 in 6.3 overs doing much damage to the Red and Blacks.

Rob Moysey and Max Capaldi steadied things for Wellington with a 29 run seventh wicket offering that came to an end when Moysey was caught off of T.Burgess for 15.

Indika Weerawarna hit a fine 33 as he and Capaldi added 66 for the eighth wicket and put some pressure on the home side, but Taunton Deane saw victory come with 9.3 overs left with Capaldi left on 48no when he ran out of partners.

On a cold and breezy day Trull asked Wellington to bat first and found Trevor Brooks and Kevin Crout in great fettle as they added 89 in 17 overs for the first wicket with Brooks playing well to the third man area with a series of glided glances – he made 32 when he was caught behind by Hedges off of the impressive Ward who took 1-14 in seven pacy overs.

Leo Goodman-Jones joined Crout and added 27 further runs before he was done by a full toss for 12.

Skipper Richard Henwood battled to 17 as the cold conditions affected the whole game, but it was Crout with his capital 74 that was the foundation for the Wellington total of 204-6 – he was out to the penultimate ball of the innings having hit nine fours.

Max Capaldi with 18 including two sixes saw the 200 was passed and Trull would need 205 to record a first win over Wellington in five attempts.

Adrian Lee and Sam Murdock offered Trull no quarter with the opening overs of the home side’s innings as Murdock bowled with good pace and line and trapped E.Barrett LBW with a ball that would have removed middle and leg stumps.

The run out of Ward was a bonus and at 50-3 in 20 overs Trull were behind the rate, but Lake with 33 and White with 32 doubled their score as Wellington did not build on the first half of their time in the field, although Robin Davies with 3-55 in 8 overs of left arm chinaman bowled delightfully and kept going despite conceding one expensive over; good boundary catches from Max Capaldi and Adrian Lee gave him reward.

Coatsdale and Trull skipper Parsons added 70 for the sixth wicket and this took their side to within an ace of the win, but Lee Nichol with 1-26 in 5 and Adrian Lee who came back for a second spell removed them and Sam Murdock kept his nerve when delivering the last over to see Wellington home by six runs and to a good victory.

Richard Henwood (Capt), Kevin Crout (Wkt), Adrian Lee, Trevor Brooks, Sam Murdock, Will Hinchcliffe, Charlie Davies, Robin Davies, Leo Goodman-Jones, Max Capaldi and Lee Nichol.

Depart from Courtland Road Car Park at 12.45pm for a 2.00pm start.

Contact Richard Henwood for details.

Alex Sparks (Capt), Aks Latifi, George Hooper, James Bath, Sam Murdock, Marc Holloway, Charlie Davies, Max Capaldi, Rob Moysey, Adrian Lee and Indi Weerawarna

Depart from Courtland Road Car Park at 12 noon for a 1.00pm start.

Contact Paul Short for details.

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.

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.

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.