Chasing Oakham's total of 83-9 on their home Newtown Road wicket, Uppingham were guided home by an innings of 26 by man of the match Sam Tipper.

Uppingham captain Josh Wedge won the toss and put Oakham into bat on a green wicket.

Alex Ashwin and Tipper proved very difficult to score from in their opening spell.

Ashwin picked up all three opening batsmen. Turner was clean bowled and Charles Baker was caught by Ben Collins.

Ashwin's final wicket came with a good catch above his head by James Howe at backward point.

Uppingham displayed their best fielding performance this season, particularly Ben Kind when he intercepted the ball to run out Jake Sanders.

Wedge and Collins tied down Oakham with a combined eight-over spell where Collins only conceded six runs and Wedge just 12 for two wickets.

Wedge clean bowled both Shelton and Milner. Joe Allen and Ben Lemon scored highest for Oakham, who at one point only looked like amassing 50 runs.

With Allen, Lemon and latterly Ollie Smith they pushed the score to 83-9. Ashwin finished with four overs, 3-7 runs, his best performance this season.

Uppingham started steadily in reply with Kind and Collins absorbing some very accurate and testing bowling from Allen and Isaac Smith.

A J Shelton and Charles Baker kept up the pressure, Shelton making the first breakthrough by dismissing Collins and then removing Jonathan Ashwin first ball to set up the hat-trick.

Wedge came to the wicket to thwart the hat-trick and stayed to score eight runs, including a crisp cover drive off Baker.

Baker took his revenge by removing Wedge caught and bowled. Ben Schofield lasted for one ball as he was clean bowled by the impressive Baker.

Kind was caught at point by Turner for eight, at which point Tipper and Josh Porter started to push the score forward.

Tipper picked off the bad balls and punished them with boundaries and Porter supported him with some good running between the wickets.

Porter fell victim to Joe Stafford for seven runs and then Tipper had to retire having drawn the scores to level.

Howe hit the winning runs to clinch a semi final cup place for Uppingham.