A defiant unbeaten last wicket stand of 62 between skipper Arron Campbell and Will Derrick took Wellington so close to a first win of the season in the Somerset Division of the West of England Premier League last Saturday when the Red and Blacks were denied by just one run as they ended on 184-9 when chasing Yeovil’s 185.

Yeovil chose to bat first which came as a bit of a surprise and when Luke Desave and Jack Beal saw that they were 14-2 Wellington were in a good position, but a solid stand of 113 for the third wicket between Fuller (38) and Ford who made a powerful 82 took Yeovil into a good mid innings position.

Wellington ended well though as from 154-3 the visiting side lost seven wickets for just 31 runs as Desave and Beal came back for a second spell and claimed two each all told.

Neil Hendy and Arron Campbell were also successful with the ball and three run outs saw that Yeovil were all out for 185 with one ball left.

Neil Hendy and Tom Chambers gave Wellington a good start as they added 37 opening wicket runs, but when Hendy was bowled for 21 and Chambers was trapped LBW for 20 the work had to begin again and at 49-3 this saw Ben Evett join Arron Campbell and the keeper played in his usual punchy manner as he posted 23 in just 24 balls and this saw 30 runs added, but when he was bowled it saw that, eventually, the score plunged to 122-9 with a lot of overs to be used, but carefully and studiously Arron Campbell and Will Derrick, as the last Wellington pair, took stock of the situation and developed a robust stand that took Wellington into the 150s and a second batting point and then past 175 for the third batting point and Yeovil were the team with the issues despite Ford taking a decent 4-45 in 10 overs.

With a good mix of running the ball around and putting the bad ball away Campbell (43no) and Derrick (25no) both did their side proud and all in all it came down to needing three to tie and four to win from the last ball which was faced by Campbell; he got a good shot in down to long off, but it was just cut off and two runs were possible before the ball was sent in to the bowler’s end to complete the day’s proceedings.

Wellington took eight points to Yeovil’s 17.