Wellington Sunday XI 302-2 - Staplegrove Sunday XI 185

The Sunday XI brightened the mood following the previous day's results with a 117 run win at Staplegrove in a fixture that replaced the originally scheduled match with Barrington.
Alex Sparks opted to bat first on a good track and saw Rob Moysey and Alec Short add 133 for the opening wicket as Wellington bossed the opening exchanges.
Short played a good knock of 36 with three fours before he was trapped LBW to Hardiman (2-46).
Moysey was launching himself into the Staplegrove attack and the Sunday batting form he showed in 2007 has continued into 2008 as he broke another record by making the highest individual score ever posted by a Wellington player as he cracked 179 with 23 fours and six sixes as he dominated all that came his way.
He was out with the score at 244 when he was caught on the boundary by Pantling who held a good catch.
Alex Sparks was played well too and the Wellington skipper got to 65no by tea with Max Capaldi joining him with 10no.
Wellington had posted the third highest score the club had ever made in friendly competition and the joint third highest ever.
Staplegrove had kept going all afternoon and had their catching being a bit more clinical then it could have been a different story.

Wellington were able to use all their bowling options and all enjoyed some success. James Webber and Jake Nicol bowled a good opening burst of six overs each as they hit the right line and length from the start. Webber got the first wicket to fall when Max Capaldi took a good catch at square leg.
Webber was on hand to take a catch in James Dyke's first over as Stratton was removed for 20.
Staplegrove reacted well from this as Trump and skipper G.Bishop added 70 for their third wicket making 42 and 36 respectively.
Charlie Last bowled another good spell and he removed Bishop when he drove straight and hard to Paul Short who took a good catch at a deepish mid-off.
Matt Daniel bowled Trump.
Pantling made a vicious 26 with two sixes, but Alec Short with 3-11 and Paul Short with 1-4 ensured that the Staplegrove innings was wrapped up with overs to spare and in the end the Red and Blacks had a 117 run win to savour ahead of the league meeting at both 1st and 2nd XI levels on Saturday 31st May.

* The downside of this match was that both teams had a player that suffered a broken finger in this match. Staplegrove's Brian Bishop suffered a broken little finger when attempting to take a catch off of Rob Moysey and Wellington's Alex Sparks too broke a little finger when standing-up to the wicket whilst wicketkeeping. Alex will be out for at least three weeks - everyone wishes both Brian and Alex a speedy recovery.

* Thanks go to Staplegrove for hosting Wellington after their original match with Barrington was cancelled by mutual agreement.