The match was the only first grade game to go ahead on a rain-affected Saturday and it was reduced to 23 overs per side after a couple of early breaks of play where the covers were rushed back on.

Knaggs threw the ball to spinners Ben Williams and Tom Barber after one of those delays given the chance he and his fellow quicks could slip running in, and the pair of tweakers didn't let him down.

Barber took 3/31, the highlight being a brilliant one-handed caught-and-bowled, and Williams picked up 2/26 to help knock over Souths for 89 and then Lachlan Strachan dominated the run chase with 74 not out.

"I've got to give a heap of praise to our spinners," Knaggs said.

"They had 14 overs combined and they bowled extremely well."

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Knaggs, the competition's leading wicket-taker, only bowled the three overs while Bailey Edmunds returned to the attack late on and knocked over the tail to finish with 3/16.

Ben O'Donnell, who has regularly opened the bowling previously, was again unavailable for the game but Knaggs was pleased to see some of his other bowlers shine.

"I think I'm pretty lucky as captain because we've got a lot of all-rounders," he said.

"It's nice to know you can hand the ball to someone and they'll do the job.

"You can set a field and a plan and it's nice when it works out and it just shows hard work at training pays off."

While there was an opportunity for bonus points in the run chase, Knaggs was satisfied to see his side just get the job done.

The target was reached in the 18^th over, with Strachan's mix of patience and real aggression leading the way before the storms which battered the region arrived.

"He batted extremely well," Knaggs said after Strachan had finished the match with a six.

"He put away the bad ball and blocked the good one. He's been doing a lot of work on picking the ball to go after."

For Souths, Hugh Ridley's 32 was the best effort.

While delighted with his own side's performance, Knaggs was also eager to praise the work of umpires Mark Munro and Glenn Pepper.

"I thought the umpires were really good and let us have a game and Souths' captain 'Norto' (Angus Norton) was very cooperative and I was glad we got the game in," he said.

Given no other games went ahead, the win catapulted CYMS back into second behind the unbeaten RSL-Colts.