On Saturday the team travelled to Weston-Super-Mare to take on a composite Uphill Castle side that was composed of players drawn from their 2nd and 3rd XIs.

Wellington opted to bat first and Rob Moysey and Stuart Currall gave the Red and Blacks a great start with a stand of 69 for the first wicket.It was ended when Moysey planted one into the hands of Simms who was waiting just behind square, he made 29.

Paul Short joined Currall and pushed the score onto 121 before Short (19)offered a return catch to leg-spinner Baxter, one of four victims for this bowler.Currall made it to 75 before spearing one up into the air and keeper Davidson, the one Uphill 1st teamer to play on the day, made the catch.

Wellington struggled after this as a slow pitch and accurate Uphill bowling made it tough to score at any rate, but Alec Short, James Mayes, Dan Addicott and skipper David Derrick managed to get the score to 163-6 at tea, but felt that this was not enough.

It shouldn’t have been enough as although Uphill lost Hodder to a great George Coate yorker with the score on 21, Cook and Davidson added another 47 runs without bother.
Cook played the anchor role to allow Davidson to flourish, but when Cook spliced one to James Mayes at point the game took on a different complexion.

Paul Short had joined the attack and, as had been the case in the Wellington innings, the slower the ball came the harder it was to play and he wheeled away for 10 overs and returned the excellent figures of 3-27 including the wicket of Davidson caught by brother Alec at deep mid-wicket for an excellent 54.

Uphill Castle then went into their shell as Kuht and Hill struggled to get any change out of John Paine’s swift left-armers and all of sudden the rate was rising and the overs were diminishing.
The home side’s tail did try and improve their situation, but the rate was too much and any danger of an away win not happening was snuffed out by Rob Moysey who tore through the tail with 3-4 in 4 overs and the end came when Froud was run out for 0 after a complete mix-up for a single left Sam Cook with the easy job of taking the bails off.

Wellington had won by 20 runs in what had been a good game.