Miles Rutherford, Dabba and Danny Potter made two changes to the starting XI which lost to Hashtag United last time out five minutes into stoppage time.
Kieran Magee lined up between the sticks as usual with Ryan Davidson, Ben Pashley, Curtis Da Costa and skipper Rob Hutchings in the back four. Joe Moore and Isaac Bello were accompanied by replacements Emmett Dunn and Mo Jammeh in midfield and forwards Prichard and Wild started up top with Charlie Bennett and Lloyd Rowlatt dropping to the bench alongside Olly Munt, Joe Clarke and Jake Scrimshaw.
Cray Wanderers won the reverse fixture at Flamingo Park 1-0 back in December when Quade Taylor and Davidson received their marching orders.
Here at Oaklands, Chi started brightly and Hutchings went on a decent run two minutes in to find Davidson who picked Prichard but Cray snuffed out the danger.
Then Prichard pushed a defender as the hosts probed again for a Wanderers set piece before Ike Orji crossed only for the Sussex side to win a goal kick.
Bello launched a couple of long throws in the opening five on either side that the Wands cleared and keeper Shaun Rowley claimed Prichard’s delivery into the box.
A coming together between Da Costa and Lateef Adaja saw the City centre back receive the only yellow card of the game. Captain Frankie Raymond played the resulting dead ball on to Orji who blasted one off target.
The hosts had another free kick to deal with moments later but they broke swiftly as Jammeh and Prichard played a neat one-two and the No11 smashed the ball in beyond the despairing Rowley to give Chi the lead on 12 minutes.
Chichester cleared a Josh Williams’ cross as Cray sought to get back into the match and Da Costa brilliantly got the ball to custodian Magee.
Kader was flagged offside in the next move and Dunn, Bello and Wild hooked up and won Bello a throw which he launched and the visitors smuggled away.
Then after a lovely Moore tackle Dunn, Davidson, Hutchings and Wild combined but Rowley made a final interception.
Da Costa dealt with a forward pass at the other end and Hutchings skipped up the left flank as the Lillywhites got going again.
Williams and Ezechukwu Ebuzogeme 11 linked up and the Cray No18 had a shot which Magee saved two-handed.
The Chislehurst based side then won the first corner of the game which Raymond took and a combination of Pashley and Hutchings cleared.
This was followed by another that Raymond again delivered and Taylor headed wide.
Nice play from Adaja resulted in a cross that was cut out and Pashley did well to shrug off Nyren Clunis,
Next, Clunis combined with Williams but Magee gathered the eventual cross with no trouble and a clever sliding interception from Hutchings saw Dunn shepherd the ball back to Magee.
Then Kader won a corner off Da Costa that Raymond once again took before Moore made a preventative header and Davidson hooked clear.
The visitors earned another corner as the ball was nicked by Hutchings but Wild headed away and after another one Kader went down in the box looking for a penalty – nothing doing according to referee Patrick Nixon on the half hour.
Dunn effectively cleared the loose ball moments later and at the Archery End Cray defenders steered it neatly back to Rowley when Wild threatened.
Moore and then Pashley were on hand to do the same as the away team posed trouble and Adaja won a set-piece on the edge of the eighteen-yard box off Man of the Match Davidson which Raymond fired over the bar.
On 40 minutes Dunn had a speculative shot after good work from Wild and Prichard, although it was always drifting wide before the first half came to a close without further incident in the final minutes.
Neither side made any changes at the break but the London side started the second period with a smart Kader goal on 48 to make it all square.
Raymond and Orji exchanged passes to no avail as Chi cleared comfortably and Kader won a corner off Hutchings which Davidson got up well and headed firmly away.
A foul by Pashley on Kader led to a Wands’ free-kick which dead ball specialist Raymond took. This came to nothing however, and Magee also claimed safely as Williams whipped another cross in.
And at the Tennis Club end Pashley tried to find Wild with an intelligent pass but Rowley intervened to deny the striker.
But on 57 there was nothing Rowley could do as a super pass from Bello set Wild up for what proved to be the winner.
Darion Dowrich recovered effectively after Dunn and Prichard combined and Chichester defended resolutely, not for the last time, to nullify a move involving Ebuzoeme, Raymond and Adaja.
Hutchings won Chi a corner off Orji which Prichard delivered and Cray cleared and Clarke came on for Da Costa with 25 minutes of normal time to go as the hosts rejigged.
Dunn made three great interventions and Taylor was there to break things up when Prichard, Jammeh and Hutchings linked up.
Nice play from Jammeh saw him try to find Bello but the final pass was a touch too long.
Dunn sliced a clearance; Scrimshaw replaced goal scorer Prichard on 71; and George Penn came on for Orji.
Pashley then thumped the ball away as the away side pushed forward and a decent pass from Jammeh almost got Scrimshaw in but the ball bobbled up.
Davidson defended well and conceded a throw-in and Magee gathered a Clunis cross before the Cray No11 fouled Hutchings down the wing.
Pashley took the resulting free kick and Bello nodded on for Scrimshaw to win a throw.
Hutchings hit one high and wide after a clever Chi move and Victor Damyanov replaced Williams with 10 to go before Dowrich won the visitors a corner which Remi Sutton headed over.
Damyanov spurned two good chances, the first of which was cleared practically off the line, whilst Davidson booted the second away.
And the Chi right back cleared Sutton’s delivery in the next Wanderers’ attack and denied Ebuzoeme with a fine block.
Wild cleared Raymond’s resulting corner and Magee held the subsequent header.
As we entered the final minutes of the 90 Rowlatt replaced Wild and Pashley made a timely clearance to prevent an equaliser that looked like it had been coming to be fair.
Bello gave away a set piece; two lovely blocks, one on a Penn attempt, stopped the visitors getting back on level terms; and Cray drilled a shot well wide in time added on.
So, Chichester move beyond the 50 points target in the Isthmian premier division in eighth place with 10 games to go. They travel to league-leaders Billericay on Saturday 8th March (Kick Off 3pm).
Chichester – Magee, Davidson, Hutchings, Moore, Da Costa, Pashley, Bello, Dunn, Wild, Jammeh, Prichard. (Bennett, Munt, Dunn, Clarke, Scrimshaw)
