Wellington put up an excellent show against West of England Premier League Two side Ilminster in the quarter-finals of the Baker Cup last Tuesday evening before going down by twenty-five runs at Courtland Road in a match that was been played at the second time of asking due to poor weather last Monday.

Ilminster ‘A’ opted to bat first and were given a good start by two of the three former Westlands players that they had in their ranks as Rideout and Kuhn put on an opening stand of 37 before Gary Tillett got one through the latter’s defences for 13
Rideout was joined by Somerset CCC’s reserve wicketkeeper Sam Spurway and the 78 runs they added took the game away from Wellington in the final analysis.
Rideout made 59 and Spurway an unbeaten 42.
Julian Smit and Thom Trott rejoined the attack and took three wickets between them as Ilminster ‘A”s innings ended in a rather calm sort of manner – not normal in these sort of fixtures where the last few overs usually see plenty of runs and wickets.
Trott took 2-32 in 5 good overs.

Rob Moysey and Mark Salter added in excess of fifty runs for Wellington’s first wicket and had they gone on further then the visitors may have had more to think about during their time in the field than they did as Moysey was first to go for 21 when he spliced a full toss to short third man.
Salter added two more after his skipper had been dismissed before planting one into the hands of the short fine-leg for 22.
Alex Sparks played a super innings of 18 on what was only his second 1st XI appearance and he used his feet very well to the spinners.
Smit was bowled for eleven.

Realistic hopes of a Wellington win had gone with the dismissal of Salter and Moysey, but Stuart Currall and Marc Holloway kept the Red and Blacks innings going with an unbroken stand of 21 runs for the sixth wicket that saw out time at 116-5 in 20 overs.