A thrilling match ended all square as Ricky Korboa's 84th minute equaliser forced a replay against Cray, writes James Barrett.
Team news: There were starts for Matt Males and Richard Ismail, while Mickel Miller returned from suspension to lead our attack. Ex-Robin Jai McKinley lined up for the hosts.
Both teams passed the ball from the off, and continued to do so throughout the match, but Alex Kozakis was forced into a magnificent double save by Brandon Scott in the 10th minute.
We responded with Miller shooting wide of the far post and home keeper Nick Blue saving a deflected Korboa effort from distance well.
Korboa was pulling the strings going forward and, following two good runs, Blue had to be at his best to keep out shots by Brendan Murphy-McVey and Miller.
But, on the 27th minute, Cray opened the scoring as Danny Haynes bent a shot beyond Kozakis and into the bottom far corner.
We went on the offensive and managed to turn the scoreline round by half-time; firstly Korboa latched onto a Bobby Price through ball to beat Blue from 10 yards in the 37th minute then, after Kozakis got a firm hand onto another shot by Haynes, Murphy-McVey planted a low effort past Blue at his near post.
HALF-TIME: 1 - 2
Although Price had the first shot in anger of the second-half, Wanderers levelled things up on 51 minutes through a Scott header at the back post.
Josh Phillips thought he'd continued his good current form when Korboa created a chance for him on 66 minutes but he saw Blue tip his dinked effort around a post.
Blue then smartly denied Miller before Peter Adeniyi came on for Males and we then fell behind to Haynes' second of the game with 13 minutes left to play.
But we kept plugging away and Korboa managed to take down and chip a long Murphy-McVey pass, that had tempted Blue to advance from his box, to earn us a replay.
Photos from the match can be viewed here.
Next up: We host Cray Wanderers in our FA Trophy replay on Thursday 13th October before we head back to Hayes Lane for a third match against them on Saturday 15th October.
Carshalton Athletic: Kozakis; Ismail, King, McLaughlin, Price (c); Murphy-McVey, Males (Adeniyi - 70), Kaba, Korboa; Miller, Phillips
Unused subs: Hamilton-Downes, Aikhionbare
Goals: Korboa (37, 84), Murphy-McVey (41)
Assists: Price, Kaba, Murphy-McVey
Cray Wanderers: Blue, McKinley (Mundele - 49), Sivapathasundaram, Leader, Lorraine, Dawson (c), Taiwo (Prescott - 41), Roberts, Haynes, Dent Scott
Unused subs: Williams, Wood-Garness, Osibudu
Goals: Haynes (27, 77), Scott (51)
Booked: Dawson, Mundele
Attendance: 187
Our Man Of The Match: Alex Kozakis