By Dafydd Howells

BARRY Wanderers Cricket Club travelled west down the M4 to take on Bridgend Town CC 3rd XI on Saturday hoping to make it two wins from two in the league.

The Wanderers lost the toss and were put into bat with Adi Tamathan and Chanda Thimmanacheru showing lots of intent early on.

Tamathan (10) and Thimmanacheru (13) both fell in quick succession in the 7th over going for big shots with the score on 25.

Neil Blundell and Pete Coleman built a useful partnership of 33 runs taking the score up to 68 in the 16th over before Coleman was bowled by Hayes for 13.

Blundell proceeded to score the bulk of The Wanderers runs with little support elsewhere as wickets fell at regular intervals.

Some questionable communication between the batsmen led to Andy Fenton being run out for 0.

Some resistance came from a promising partnership between Colum John with Blundell.

This was ended by another mix up leading to John and Blundell embracing for a moment mid wicket only for John to be run out for a very valuable 14.

Blundell eventually fell to Donelly for a very fine 48.

The Wanderers eventually limped to 111 all out after 29 overs.

Venkata Siddu and Luke Grant opened the bowling for the Wanderers and bowled miserly spells restricting Bridgend to just 22 runs in the first 10 overs.

Siddu (assisted by a catch from the alert Tim Bowker at square leg) removed both the openers in his spell ending with excellent figures of 2 for 16 from his 8 overs.

Grant went wicketless but along with Siddu, he kept the Wanderers in the game with his 8 overs going for just 14 runs.

Colum John and skipper for the day Fenton were the first change bowlers and continued the fine work of Siddu and Grant.

John’s excellent swing bowling was rewarded with the wicket of Mitchell, out for 18. No 5 batsman Bluett began to score freely but despite this, Fenton managed to get a top edge presenting a golden opportunity to remove the danger man.

Unfortunately, keeper Phil Wolfenden was not able to hold on to the catch granting Bluett a reprieve.

With Bridgend on 59 in the 23rd over, Bluett made the most of his good fortune and with some lusty blows off the bowling of Bowker he pushed Bridgend closer to the finish line.

Apart from Bowker removing Hathaway lbw for 4 there would be little else for the Wanderers to cheer.

The game was done in the 34th over with Bridgend winning by six wickets with the excellent Bluett finishing on 52 not out.