Wellington 204-6 - Ilton 208-3

Going into this Somerset League Division One fixture Ilton were without a win, but they comprehensively beat the Red and Blacks with overs and wickets to spare to take 31 points to Wellington's 13.
Ilton asked Wellington to bat first on winning the toss, but it looked to have backfired as Mark Salter and Matt Daniel put on 101 for the first wicket in 22 overs of exciting strokeplay.
Daniel played the anchor role and made a capital 36 before been first out caught.
This fine start was in danger of being squandered as the score fell to 124-3, but Mark Saunders - making his first league appearance of the season - came to the fore and with Salter added 53 fourth wicket runs.
Salter was within shouting distance of a league century when he was fourth out at 177 in the 41st over.
He had made 85 and had played an innings of quality with nine fours and a six.
Saunders was unbeaten on 30no and a good innings of 10no from Alec Short got Wellington over the 200 mark for the first time this season and at 204-6 at tea Wellington were in good mood.

But Ilton belied their low position by batting well throughout the 41.5 overs it took them to get to the 205 required for victory. No-one made a massive score, but fifties from each of Venn (52), Williams (54no) and Oliver (56no) were sufficient to see the home side over the line.
Thom Trott bowled twelve fine overs for only 34 runs, but wickets were hard to come by as an aggregate of 412-9 shows.
Paul Short bowled his off-spin well for his side and took a caught-and-bowled offering to finish with 1-34 in 9 overs.
A wicket for Marc Holloway and a run-out constituted Wellington's other successes in the field, but Ilton had won by seven wickets and left Wellington needing to get back to winning ways when the entertain Westlands this weekend - the first Somerset League meeting between the two side's 1st XIs in 12 years and the first at any level since 2001.