Street 2nd XI 184-5 - Wellington 2nd XI 129

Starting their second season in Division One of the Somerset League's Reserves competition following 2006's promotion at Street was always going to be a test for Richard Henwood's men and so it proved as the Red and Blacks second string went down by 55 runs at the Victoria Club last weekend and collected eleven points in the process.

Street 2nd XI - one of the division's established sides - batted first and got away to a 76 run opening wicket stand as K.Wall made 52 and home skipper W.Wall 38 as it looked like it could be a hard afternoon's work for Wellington.
However Jake Nicol got a double breakthrough as he removed W.Wall caught by Richard Henwood and elder brother Lee then held on to a chance from J.Linter and Street were now 89-2 and perhaps in a position to be exploited, but through Davey's 38 and D.Wall's 26no the home side got through to 184-5 at tea.
There were wickets for Richard Henwood, Simon Rudd and Chris Rudd.
Martin Short bowled well for no reward.

What Wellington needed was a good start, but they were reduced to 14-3 as P.Linter had figures of 6-4-1-3 at one stage.
New recruit Trevor Brooks - who had played for Temple Cloud - made a steadying 13 and with Simon Rudd applied 29 runs and a level of control to the Wellington 2nd XI innings.
Brooks was fourth man out and this saw another mini collapse to 55-6, but Simon Rudd was still there and recorded a second successive half-century in this fixture.
Bob Trott with 15 helped Rudd to add 48 runs for Wellington's seventh wicket and this got the team into three figures, but three wickets fell for two runs and although Martin Short and Jake Nicol added a breezy 24 runs for the last wicket Wellington were beaten by 55 runs with 4.4 overs left when Short was LBW for 13.

Street 2nd XI took 34 points to Wellington 2nd XI's eleven.
The team now has two home matches when the entertain Glastonbury 3rd XI on Saturday and then entertain another 3rd XI in Bridgwater the week after and need to use home setting to their advantage.