Wellington batted first and Paul Short and Neil Hendy got away to a good start with a 26 run stand, but the swift Bridgwater fielding saw that run scoring opportunities were hard to come by and this stand took four overs to compile; the WEPL side had a good awareness of each other and where the ball was throughout the Wellington innings.

Hendy was first to go, bowled by Higgins for a good 14.

Another wicket was lost with the score on 30, but Thom Trott joined Short and got Wellington into the fifties and with Short angling the ball around the arena and Trott (13) hitting two straight driven fours Wellington were coming back into things; Short made it to 27no and retirement.

Aks Latifi made a fluent 13 before being stumped to leave Sam Murdock and Paul Short to bat out for Wellington, who had posted 87-4 in 12 overs.

Davis with 2-20 in 3 overs was Bridgwater’s best bowler.

Bridgwater batted solidly throughout and waited rather than engineered run scoring opportunities; Coles with 28no hit the ball very hard and gave his side the early impetus to go on from; although Thom Trott and Neil Hendy did bowl some very good deliveries and Hendy was left wondering how he did not get at least one LBW shout to go his way.

Paul Short was Wellington’s wicket taker on the day with 2-30 as he caught and bowled Davis and saw Marc Holloway catch one to get rid of Halleran and when Sam Murdock saw his first over cost just one run Bridgwater were being pegged back, but they got over the line when their keeper Standerwick glanced one for three leg byes and Bridgwater were over the line, but not without a Wellington giving them a real test and maybe had Wellington had 110 on the board it would have been even closer.