Ilminster Sunday XI 128 – Wellington Sunday XI 129-5
The Sunday XI registered their first win in Division One of the Three Counties League with this five wicket success at WECCC Premier Two club Ilminster, but it was a nervy run chase by the Red and Blacks as Ilminster’s young side made Wellington work hard for every run.
Ilminster opted to bat first and the ball started to dart around alarmingly. Stuart Turner (1-31 in 
and Grant Davey (1-25 in shared the new ball for Wellington and did well as a partnership with Turner removing Ilminster 1st XI opening bat House for a duck as he was trapped in front of the stumps.
Davey made the ball do much up the hill and was unlucky not to get a wicket or two in his first spell. He was rewarded later on though.
He gave way to Thom Trott who bowled a good tight spell of 1-20 in seven overs as Ilminster struggled to get any real momentum going. Their South African import Alexander did try and inject something into what was becoming a fairly turgid affair by charging both the seamer and the spinners, but this did not really come off. As he was nearing a fifty he injured himself badly with a knee ligament injury been sustained, he had to retire hurt and took no further part in the game.
Richard Short bowled with a fair bit of pace and returned figures of 2-26 in 5 overs.
Spin then made the Ilminster innings fold on 128 as there wickets for both Richard Das Neves and Rob Moysey.
Wellington needed three an over to win and John Paine had scored six from the first over when he received a grubber and was bowled at the base of the off peg – nothing he could do at all about that one.
Chris Kitto too departed through the bowling of Vining who was causing more than a few problems for Wellington.
Danny Addicott and Richad Das Neves steadied things for the Red and Blacks as they added 68 for the third wicket and this was pretty much the base that saw Wellington home and to victory. Addicott played a useful innings of 18 as he supported Das Neves who made a glorious 75no with a wide array of great shots, particularly off his legs.
Wellington won with 18.4 overs to spare and took 18 points to Ilminster’s 9.
