Miller's six dismantles Wrotham chase

For the second week running the Cavs were left scrabbling around for an opposition on the Friday. This time Wrotham CC (bet you can’t guess how it is pronounced – go on, guess – you’re wrong – its ‘Root-em’) very kindly let us play at their ground. A nice place but unfortunately a bit of mismatch. Allowed to bat first, a change in the usual batting order saw two players depart for ducks straight away and the Cavs were in a tricky situation. Manoj soon hit us out of this hole with a quick-fire fifty. He thwacked his way to 57, deploying good judgment and power. With his departure the Cavs were in danger of falling away again at 80 for 5. But Brijesh Patel (41) and Andy Lewis (22) restored order with a partnership of 68. Poor Andy, given a rare chance away from number eleven, spannered his back, meaning he could drive the ball elegantly to long off but was not be able to run the single. This slowed down progress a fair degree as you can imagine. However, new guy Zeeshan Shabeer smacked 24 off 9 balls to restore some dominance for the Cavs and we were able to declare early on 190.
Zeeshan then opened the bowling and conceded only 2 runs from his 5 overs. At the other end though was where the magic was happening. The skipper, spotting a weak batting line-up and a dodgy pitch bowled himself and took surprising wicket after surprising wicket. The ball was swinging and the pitch was not bouncing much, so once he started bowling straight the oppo batsmen had no answer. He was on for all ten after his sixth wicket (helped by his dropping a catch of the luckless Supathi Panchal) but decided to let someone else have a play. Wrotham then doubled their score from 45 for 6 to 98 before the legspin of Sumair finally finished the game. With 6 for 15 Joel had the best Cavs figures for over ten years. Which is just silly.