Wellington 126-8 – Taunton Deane A 127-3
Wellington’s Baker Cup campaign ended at the quarter-final stage with this seven wicket defeat at home to Taunton Deane A on Monday evening, but Wellington ran the WECCC Premier Two side to the last over after they had posted a more than credible 126-8 in 20 overs.
On winning the toss Rob Moysey and Mark Salter added 34 in eight overs at the top of the Wellington innings with Moysey running the ball around well to get a regular stream of singles on his way to 15 and Salter hit three lovely fours in his 17.
Both were out by the time the score had reached 47.
This cued Alex Sparks to make a top knock of 19 that saw his match runs with the amount of balls faced as he claimed singles and twos at will.
David Marshall cracked two sixes and looked as if was ready to take the Taunton Deane A attack to the cleaners, but Bailey (3-29) held on to a caught and bowled chance to end the fun.
Mark Saunders played his second excellent innings of this Baker Cup run as he crunched 31 with a series of booming cover drives as Wellington passed 100 in the 17th over.
Scrambled runs took the home side to 126-8 in their 20 overs.
In the final analysis Taunton Deane A won this match on the strength of the 40 runs that Hewton and Proudlove hit in the first four overs of their reply.
David Marshall took 2-19 in 5 overs as he bowled both these players for 31 apiece and this gave the Deane something to think about.
Rob Moysey bowled a good spell and his reward was to remove A.Warren for 20 with the same amount needed to win.
Taunton Deane A were cautious as they neared the victory line and their win came when Johnson hit a four from the last ball of the penultimate over to give the county town team a seven wicket win that sees them play in the one of the competition’s semi finals that will be played at Taunton C.C’s ground on the evening of Monday 4th June.
