Wellington were despatched by the large margin of ten wickets in this the only cricket they managed over a rain soaked weekend when WECCC Premier One side Taunton visited Courtland Road on Monday evening for a Baker Cup quarter-final fixture.

Taunton asked Wellington to bat first and after losing a wicket at 9 Mark Salter and Richard das Neves added 60 for the second wicket in under ten overs. das Neves used his feet well to the spinners and made it to 36 in 30 balls before Bradbury got one through his defences. Had he carried out Wellington may well have had 120 runs or so to bowl at, but as it was this signalled the decline in Wellington’s innings. Salter too made 36 before being run out as off-spinner Hart with 4-21 in 5 overs and Bradbury with 2-10 in 4 saw that the Red and Blacks only made 93-8 in 20 overs.

Keates and Bradbury gave an excellent performance with the bat as they negotiated all that Wellington could through at them. John Paine was fiery in his five over burst and Richard das Neves exercised good control, but last season’s runners-up weren’t going to make any mistakes and although Stuart Turner and Kevin Symons bowled tidily enough, Wellington did not have the penetration to make the county town side’s time in the middle anything other than routine and they recorded a ten wicket win with two overs to spare and progress through to the semi-finals next month.