Wellington 2nd XI 183-8 - Staplegrove 2nd XI 110

A third century in four matches was critical in Wellington 2nd XI winning a second Somerset League Reserves Competition Division One fixture in succession as skipper Richard Henwood made a sparkling 111 last weekend.
As was the case in the 1st XI match Staplegrove won the toss and opted to bowl first and when Wellington were reduced to 35-4 with Read and Miller getting amongst the wickets it looked like the visitors to Courtland Road were going to edge things, but Henwood played the best innings of his relatively short Wellington career as he hit 15 fours and three sixes, adding 72 with Matt Weaver and 75 with Bob Trott as he single-handedly marshalled his team through their innings.
Only Weaver with 18 and Julian Jones with 11 made double figures for Wellington otherwise.
Sensible batting play by Martin Short and Steve Symons ensured that Staplegrove did not gain any more bonus points.

The Staplegrove inning swas not concluded until the last ball of the match as they crawled along at just over two runs per over.
Martin Short and Charlie Last bowled well in tandem with Short taking 2-14 in 12 fine and controlled overs and Last took 1-23 in 10 overs delivered in two spells.
There were three wickets apeice for Jake Nicol and Bob Trott as Wellington eventually got the job done, but it was hard work as Staplegrove ground out a reply that eventually gave Wellington a 73 run win and 34 points.