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On a beautiful summer day, Claygate won the toss and elected to bat on a well-rolled hard pitch at Capel‘s Mortimer Lane ground.

The decision paid off as in-form Lance Mayer (108 with 4 sixes and 13 fours) and Nuwan Jayasena (82 with 3 sixes and 13 fours) added 160 runs for the second wickets in just 20 overs. Claygate's 2010 batting cup winner Sahan Wijesekera then took centre stage with an amazing knock of 60 off just 20 balls with 6 sixes and 5 fours. With six fielders on the boundary line, Sahan and Chris Howe (37 with 5 fours and 2 sixes) smashed 74 runs for the 4th wicket in less than 6 overs to enable Claygate's innings to average more than 8 runs an over and declare at 322 for 5 after 39 overs!14 sixes and 40 fours in the innings is an indicator of the utter dominance of bat over ball.

Capel were quickly reduced to 67 for 2 after 12 over with Luke Webb taking a couple of wickets with his off-cutters. Claygate were then sent on a leather hunt as Captain M Gee (97) and hard hitting left hander D Jordan (99) put on 156 runs for the third wicket. The fielding became ragged, runs were scored at will and with less than 100 runs needed off the last 17 overs, Claygate were staring at defeat.

However Nuwan Jayasena got Jordan in the first over of his return spell to trigger a collapse. Skipper Vikram Prabhakar(2-25 off 9 overs) bottled up one end to enable Nuwan Jayasena (3-76 off 15 overs) and Luke Webb (4-29 off 6.2 overs) run through the side from the Playground End to wrap up the innings at 284 off 48.2 overs. Lance Mayer capped off a good day at the office with a couple of smart stumpings and a catch.

In a remarkable roller coaster of a game played in good spirit, Claygate secured a 38 point victory to enable them leap substantially closer to league leaders North Holmwood who had a losing draw this weekend. Claygate play away at East Horsley next weekend.