Wellington Sunday XI played their first Taunton and District Sunday League game in two months last weekend and made it three wins out of three with five to play with this good 38 run win over WEPL Premier One club Taunton St Andrews on the road last weekend…

The first rain for a month duly arrived in the form of thunderstorms and saw a 2.30pm start be made, but only two overs got bowled before the players were taken from the ground for around two hours, but in this short amount of play Sam Whitefield and Ben Evett had taken 28 from what was faced.

A 28 overs per side game ensued and commenced at 4.30pm after tea had been taken and by this time the rain had gone and the current hot and sunny conditions were back…

Whitfield and Evett took their stand to 63 before Evett was caught for 23 sweeping at deep back square and Whitefield was bowled for 37; both players had played well all told.

Jack Beal is hitting some big sixes at this time and in making 47 he crashed three more out of the ground and this gave Wellington good hope of making over 200 and with Arron Campbell’s 36 the Red and Blacks Sunday side was on course for full batting points, but through Baldock with 3-10 and Rossiter with 3-20 the middle order was despatched with only Will Derrick with 10no making double figures after Campbell’s knock.

TSA would need 191 at 6.82 per over and through former Wellington footballer Martin Jenkins had twenty on the board before Wellington skipper Macaulay Campbell, bowling at good pace, bowled the experienced opener for 14.

M.Contreras made a stoic 16 before he swept Sam Whitefield and was caught on the boundary well by Will Derrick and at 34-2 Wellington were on top, but Frost with 38 and Pringle with 18 got TSA into the 70s and then the 90s and were building good momentum when Ben Meek’s second spell did for them both as he rearranged their furniture with pacy accuracy.

N.Contreras with 20 kept the TSA innings going, but when he was well caught by Tom Shannon at cover off of Will Derrick the game was Wellington’s.

Oli Beale with 3-17 in five overs went a long way to mopping up the last few wickets and there was another victim for Sam Whitefield as Wellington could not split Batstone and Baldock up so as to claim full bowling points.