Wellington were up against the only other team to have completed and won a Somerset League Division One game on the rain disrupted opening week of the season, and despite fighting back with both bat and ball, Evercreech recorded their first win at Courtland Road since August 1998 with this four wicket win.

Evercreech opted to put Wellington into bat on a breezy day and all seemed to be going OK for the home side as Mark Salter and Rob Moysey put on 15 for the first wicket, but Evercreech skipper C.Ough (4-20 in 12 overs) then put the skids under Wellington as they slipped badly from 31-1 to 34-6 and a rescue act was needed badly for the Red and Blacks.

Wellington won their opening Somerset League Division One match of the 2004 season on Bank Holiday Monday at Burnham-on-Sea by 26 runs as two splendid individual performances supplied the Red and Blacks with 33 points.

After been put into bat Mark Salter and Rob Moysey added an impressive 61 for the first wicket.Salter looped one to Tagg as he tried to play to the leg side for 13, but the captain had done his bit. Paul Short was looking set when he chipped one to mid-on, but Mark Saunders with 19 and Stuart Currall with 28 aided Rob Moysey, who carried his bat for a fine 88no, to push Wellington’s score towards 200.