On a stiflingly hot day Wembdon won the toss and had a bat on a good pitch with well cut outfield, but did not get to the total they expected to make as George Hooper and Ian Hewson led the Wellington attack well once more in the absence of Luke Desave who is still troubled with a knee injury; Hooper produced a fine delivery to see the back of Gower in the third over as he bowled ten overs in two spells taking 4-37 all told and he is in good form at this time in all three facets of the game.

The run out of Curd who called for a single to short fine leg where Neil Hendy was residing was a waste of a wicket for Wembdon, but Wellington were held up by Puddy with his excellent 84 that saw him be sixth out for 197 to leave George Hooper on a hat trick as catches from Max Capaldi and Aks Latifi were crucial and from then on Wembdon tailed off to be 239 all out in 48.2 overs – still a good score, but some thirty or forty runs short of their desired total.

Paul Short and Arron Campbell delivered the best part of twenty good overs of off spin between them and did well in some of the hottest playing conditions for some time.

Ian Hewson’s boundary catch was a blinding one handed effort running in and saw the end of Trunks for 23 just as he was getting going.

Wellington were 15-2 in six overs and in some trouble, but Alex Sparks and Max Capaldi added an effortless 83 runs for the third wicket that was not in any danger until Sparks was given out LBW for 46 when he had got a good amount of bat on the ball.

Capaldi smashed 38 until he holed out on the long on boundary and at 123-6 after losing another couple of wickets the Red and Blacks were well behind the rate.

Enter Neil Hendy with a fine 46 and the efforts of Scott Davey, George Hooper, Arron Campbell and Ian Hewson got Wellington to within six runs of the 240 required at the start of the last over; the last four Wellington wickets added 113 excellent runs for their side and with it almost saw Wembdon lose for just the second time this season and both would have been at the hands of Wellington.

Campbell and Hewson were present for the last over and in deciding to go for two on the second ball Campbell fell just short of his ground having made 12 with Hewson making 21no with three fours to go with Hooper’s 11 and Davey’s 12.

A fine game that went to the wire and saw Wellington collect ten points to remain in second place, but this does see that Wembdon are in command of the one promotion place to the Bristol and Somerset Division.

Wellington entertain Winscombe this coming weekend.