Cavs slaughter Squires in the sun

The Cavs pulled off one of their biggest ever chases, gunning down 251 in a mere 28 overs of carnage. Such free-scoring was a product of a flat, flat, flat pitch, a lightning-fast outfield, largely unthreatening bowling and the hyper-positive attitudes of the Cav batters, especially ringer Jono Arscott. Morgs brought him along as a late replacement and he proved to be ridiculously talented. Batting with complete freedom he faced only 42 balls, but scored an almighty 89 runs in an innings of total domination. He blattered 12 fours and 4 sixes before, in a perfectly-timed act of sacrifice, he walked past one to give someone else a go. At the other end of this mayhem Pete Mitchell scored 79* (off a more ‘sedate’ 66 balls) and he and Morgs (who creamed 35 off 20 balls) blasted the Cavs to an astonishing victory.

Earlier on in the day the Cavs had been run ragged themselves by the Squires surprisingly violent approach to batting. Mo Khan (67) and Mickey Serpant (88) slapped the bowling merrily around the park as the Cavs struggled to contain the usually more cautious Squires batting order. They were not helped by a particularly poor display of fielding, not well timed on a day when a small mistake would cost 4 runs so easily.

The only time the bowlers were in control all day was during the great opening spells from Jiva and Manoj. Jiva had two dropped in his first over and for the second week in a row went undeservedly wicketless. The one thing the pitch offered was some spin and this was how the Cavs managed to restrict the oppo in the end. Andy Lewis spun his way to 3 top-order wickets and then Ramsden snaffled 4 wickets late-on as the Cavs finally took their catches. Only after the havoc caused by the Cavs batting, did it become clear how well the bowlers had done.