It is very much a case of  ‘as you were’ in Division Two of the Somerset League’s Reserves competition after the top three all secured maximum points wins last weekend as each of Frome, Wellington and Langport all won by large margins to leave Wellington second in the table – twenty points ahead of Langport and forty six behind Frome – the big games left this season are on Saturday 14th August when Langport visit Frome and the week after when Frome visit Wellington, no other game is any less important naturally, but based on current evidence these are the games that will decide the final order in the division this season.

As for this game Wellington were asked to bat on losing the toss and saw a healthy 35 run stand develop between Trevor Brooks and Kevin Crout in nine overs before Brooks was bowled by his son Nathan who plays for his father’s old Club for 18.

A second wicket fell and at 45-2 in 13 overs Wellington were not dominant – yet at least.

Simon Rudd joined Crout and added a pivotal 73 run third wicket stand for the home side – Rudd made 31 with four fours as keeper/batsman Crout developed his innings to the tune of 79 excellent runs that contained eleven fours and was made in 40 overs as he was the backbone of the Red and Blacks innings.

Tom Baycock had joined Crout with the score on 118 when Rudd was out and he made a debut Wellington fifty as he compiled 57no with eight fours in an innings that gave Wellington’s innings an added depth late on and with Kevin Symons making 20no Wellington had 224-5 on the board at tea.

Temple Cloud skipper Newmarch had pulled a leg muscle during his side’s time in the field and he was unable to bat, so leaving the Bristol side having to bat a man light.

Ross Brayley made that job even harder when he removed Campbell for a duck and Tom Baycock added to his good day with the wicket of the other opener Head for six.

R.Appleyard with 27 and Veater with 23 added some useful runs for Temple Cloud, but there was not impetus in their play to really trouble Wellington – they got the score to 90-4 before Adrian Lee bowled the telling spell of the innings from a Wellington perspective as he claimed 5-14 in just six overs and this signalled the start of the end of the Temple Cloud effort.

George Hooper got a wicket for his efforts and Wellington had a 90 run win with 4.1 overs left to bowl.

A tenth win of the season was recorded and a trip to Winscombe is next up.