2nd Team Away v Frimley Please meet at station car park 11.45 am , avoid Club entrance, Quality Street Fair!

1. Ray Shinners (Capt)
2. Jeff Spencer
3. Jason Drewett
4. Richard Feist (W)
5. Wasil Mohar
6. Malcolm Burt
7. Bobby Sharp
8. Aidan Hembold
9. Zeeshan Murtaza
10. Asim Ashraf
11. Dave Loader

3rd Team v Wallington, Home at Hawthorns School at 12.45

1. John Young(Capt)
2. Kashif Noon
3. Terry Young
4. James Lowe(W)
5. Richard Maysey
6. Rob Young
7. Adeel Ahmed
8. Saqib Khan
9. Ali Pervaiz
10. Ameer pasha
11. Safyan Aslam

Club X1 v Chips and Coulsdon and Old Walcountians at Old Ws for a 2.00pm start

Please meet in Station Car Park at 1.00pm

1. Mike Wadsley(Capt)
2. Jon Lowe
3. Farooq Naseer
4. Omer Shuja
5. Shakir Khan
6. Jon White
7. Bob McGillivray
8. Ian McGillivray
9. Tim Deans(W)
   
10. Mark Hornby
11. Graham Hornby

please contact Chris Lowe if not been contacted yet.

Saturday 1st XI to play Shepperton at Quality Street - 12.45 meet.

1. Ed Loader (c)
2. Joe Shinners
3. Jason Kyte
4. Andy Chapman
5. Manish Patel
6. Richard Turner
7. James Vincent
8. Fred Stuart
9. Dan Hamilton (wk)
10. Adam Fleming
11. Dan Feist

Remember Quality Street Fair this Saturday so entrance to the ground will be tricky.

June featured three Fullers League matches with mixed results – a win, a draw then a bad defeat at home. Clearly all involved realised we could have done a lot better over the month.

It started well with a third consecutive win by 4 wickets at home to Long Ditton. On an excellent batting strip with a short boundary to one side over 400 runs were scored for 11 wickets in 90 overs. Long Ditton made a challenging declaration of 212 to win in 45 overs after an outstanding 135 not out from opener Dave Downey. The Merstham innings began with positive intent and 80 was reached in the 15th over – poor balls were dispatched to the boundary while positive running kept the rate at near six an over. Malcolm Burt (28) missed a straight one and pinch-hitter Ghulam Hussein joined Dan Hamilton at the crease. In a second wicket stand of 50 he hit 33 with six fours, Hamilton eventually departing for 64. Hussein soon followed for 40 as wickets started to fall. At 170 for 4 it was very re-assuring for the captain to have Neil Maplesden at the wicket for his first innings of the season and his calm 19 not out saw the side safely to their target with few concerns and with over four overs to spare.
In excellent weather the side travelled to Guildford City with Tom Humphreys in charge – he duly won the toss and inserted. Unfortunately Merstham came across some good opening bats all willing to put the bad ball away, again there were a few too many. In his first outing Saflin Aslam bowled well and some outstanding catches, notably three from Ghulam Hussein and one from Humphreys helped. Unfortunately a number of easier catches were again missed to offer Guildford the cushion of posibly another 30 or 40 runs on their total. Dave Loader was the pick of the bowlers with 5 for 37. With wickets falling at regular intervals Neil Maplesden came up the order at number 4 and set a platform for the win with an organised 42 before top edging a sweep. At 104 for 6 needing 74 in 14 overs and Hussein heading for hospital after being hit on the head we continued to lose wicket. It was left to the reliable Loader and Zeshan Murtaza (18no)  in a last wicket stand of 28 to keep us unbeaten on the day with Guildford gaining the winning draw.
The 2nds follows a positive way of playing in that the team is prepared to risk losing matches in order to win. It has gone in the team’s favour on a number of occasions but against Worplesdon & Burpham it went wrong and it was not a pleasant experience. On an excellent batting strip in very hot weather Merstham were not displeased to be inseted. Again a positive opening stand – this time 68 between Malcolm Burt (33) and Dan Hamilton (27) was not built on as four wickets fell in 8 overs and 11 runs. The re-building job was started by a dashing 26 from the returning Aiden Helmbold and Neil Maplsden in a stand of 53 for the 5th wicket. Maplesden continued with a structured 52no in a stand of 64 with an aggressive Tom Humphreys (24) to set a challenging 198 in 48 overs.
The old ball was kept and David Loader created numerous problems. With Shinners at the other end a number of catches were again spilled as we failed to capitalise. Helmbold again looked threatening but with only three wickets down the new ball was taken after 25 overs and the pace provided with attacking fields saw the ball go to all parts of the ground. G Jacksons opening innings of 95no won Worplesdon & Burpham their first match of the season by an emphatic 7 wickets.
You can read more comprehensive reports on our results page. With competition for places we look to be positive in July with four matches against Frimley, Ewhurst and Haslemere away and Weybridge Vandals at home.

MERSTHAM CRICKET CLUB

SUMMER CRICKET AND FOOTBALL

 COACHING CAMP

1)  Monday 17 August – Wednesday 19 August

2)  Monday 24 August – Wednesday 26 August

3)  Tuesday 1^st September – Wednesday 2^nd September

@ Quality Street, Merstham

Name:  

DOB: 

Contact:

Medical:

To book please contact Dan Feist on 07793 952 496  or danfeist@gatton-park.org.uk or Spencer on s.ogilvie2@ntlworld.com

We have a few last bit of are Training gear available if you like to purchase any of the following please Contact Dan or Richard

Medium

Sweat Shirts  £12

Polo Shirts £10

Shorts £5

Playing Shirts £10

Large

SweatShirts  £15

Playing Shirts £10

Once this has been sold we can then look to purchase some more training Gear.

Cheers

This Sunday saw the Merstham Magics don their coloured kit for the first time in the Surrey Trust Development Feeder League at Old Mid-Whitgiftians. The Sun was shining and Old-Mids skipper made no hesitation in opting to bat first after winning the toss on what looked to be a good wicket and hard fast outfield. Merstham's bowling was shared between 8 bowlers who bowled good line and length and backed up by a solid performance in the field which restricted Old-Mids to 202 for 7 in their 40 overs. There were notable performances from Joe Shinners and Ben Hatton with quick new ball bowling backed up by Liam Powell and Marcus Kyte giving the Old-Mids batsmen nothing to hit. The chase was always within reach for Merstham going at the required rate throughout the innings but losing wickets at fairly regular intervals. Joe Shinners continued his run of good form with the bat - passing 50 and bringing Merstham within 40 runs of the required total before being bowled trying to up the run-rate. Simon Rivers supported well until Old-Mids young leg spinner bamboozled him as well as Justin David and Liam Powell in quick succession. Ben Hatton and Will Sharp chipped in with quick runs to keep the required run rate at around five an over but both fell before seeing the Magics home. At nine down with one over to go and seven runs required there were still three possible outcomes. It was left to Marcus Kyte and Ian McGillivray to try to knock off the runs but finished one short with three required off the last ball.

NPL won toss and elected to bat.. First over opener caught by father Pearson off son Pearson..then a big stand thwarted MCC's young attack..Newboy, teacher, Hansel (0-3) came on, in tandem with Mike wadsley(0-9), to slow the scoring rate for 8 overs.. All youngsters bowled well without success, (Aaron Sonater the pick) until Pearson Snr bowled out the overs with 2 wickets..Oppo all out 163.
 In reply two crucial run-outs delayed the chase. Firstly after an opening stand of 50, Bob McIlvray was run out by a direct hit. Roy Pearson continued to ride his luck and slaughtered the bowling with a rapid 40; Two new "boys" Terry and Howett didn't last long against accurate pace bowling. The second run-out was teacher Hansel, batting assuredly, failed to make his ground after being sent back, and another direct hit saw him dismissed. Skipper Mike Wadsley(20) came in hoping to see the side through, assisting the young colts. Unfortunately he missed a full toss and that was that !! MCC all out 133.
 Another enjoyable game, everyone participating, and the colts fulfilling their pomise in a link to seniors cricket !

May featured four Fullers League matches and has seen us finish far stronger than we started with two wins to date. With unprecidented availability of players a better start was expected.
Our visit to Roehampton showed little difference in the strength of the sides but the winning of the toss (and asking us to bat first) allowed our opponents a clear target after our failure to post a competitive score  (135). Despite tight bowling an inability to hold catches allowed our opponents to make steady progress under ever decreasing pressure. Worse followed with a sound defeat at high-flying Deando Ruxley the following week. Against opponents who will feature strongly at the top of the table we were both outbatted and outbowled with again our catching poor. After winning the toss we set our opponents to bat first – at 130+ for 6 the game was in the balance but a half-century from the captain took the game away from us. Of more concern was our failure to deliver with the bat. Four of the first five batsmen were well set but dismissed in the late teens/twenties as the side lacked any significant partnerships or a dominant scorer.
Westfield in our first home match saw a massive improvement in our batting. Batting first Malcolm Burt and Jeff Spencer (15) amassed 40+ for the first wicket. Burt continued in a 65 run partnership with Jason Drewitt (31) as we started to take a grip of the game. Burt went for 53  with positive contributions from Aiden Helmbold (36no) and Martin Fisher (20no) allowing us to make a positive declaration at 180. Disheartened opponents went down to a 54 run defeat at the hands of Hembold as he finished with a personal best eight wickets.
The month finished away to Wangas and our second – by 6wickets – win of the season. After winning the toss (a 50% success rate) our opponents did well to reach 169 with limited batting – Asim Ashraf claiming a hat-trick in the 52nd over of the innings. A target of 170 at just about 4 an over was positively taken on. Dan Hamilton played a match winning innings of 70 no and a big third wicket stand with Helmbold (43) ensured no scares towards the total.
You can read more comprehensive reports on our results page. We look to be positive in June with three matches against Long Ditton at home, Guildford City away and Worplesden & Burpham at home.

This week has seen us take the Surrey Mirror by  storm, check the local paper of the links below

http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/cricket/Success-Merstham-colts/article-1050238-detail/article.html

http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/mersthamcc

Pictures at

http://3303.e-printphoto.co.uk/nse/index.cfm?z=z

please let me have reports of any matches by Monday lunch time if you like me to send to the paper

Dan

Girls' Cricket

WEDNESDAY

5.30 - 6.15

@

QUALITY STREET

9 - 14 YEAR OLD

Starts 20^th May

FOR MORE INFO

danfeist@gatton-park.org.uk

Congrats. to Spencer and his team for a great win on Sat. morning over Lingfield! Any chance of some help on and off the field with this important age group.

Our Richard finished in 4 1/2 hours a fantastic result for him and CRY the charity he raised a lot of money for! anyone who has more news on this please call the website team.  

A big thank you to all for the great help everyone gave last night, it was a big success now we hope for some great weather.

Mid week training will start this wednesday 22nd April.

The format of the sessions will be

6.15- 6.45 Fitness

6.45 - 7.15 Fielding

7.15 onwards Nets.

Look Forward to seeing you wednesday night

 CHAIRMAN'S NEWSLETTER

NUMBER 1  -  APRIL 2009

Dear Member

The new cricket season is almost upon us and I hope that it is an enjoyable and successful one for everyone.

I was honoured to be elected as your Chairman in January and together with my fellow committee members will be doing everything that I can to continue to move the Club forward on and off the field.

A very big thank you to those of you who were able to give up part of, or indeed all of, last weekend to offer your help in a wide variety of ways as once again the Club took part in the NatWest Cricket Force Weekend. I am very keen that we are able to improve our facilities, in particular the pavilion over a realistic timescale. In an ideal world, with money being no object I would like to see a brand new pavilion at our Quality Street ground. However, we are all too well aware of the difficult economic and financial climate that we find ourselves in and this must be taken into account when planning for the future. An alternative to a new building would be to improve and extend our current one whilst a third option could be to provide additional and more spacious changing room facilities in the pavilion as well as building a new clubhouse with a modern kitchen, bar and social area between the current pavilion and the garage.

It is of course that time of year when subscriptions are due and I do ask that you pay these in as quickly as possible. Please ensure that your cheque is forwarded directly to Rosemary Attridge - Membership and Subscription Secretary and not to a team captain or the Treasurer. The subscription rates have already been sent out to you and once again there has been no increase. Thank you for your help in paying these.  Rosemary also coordinates the Tea Persons rota and I would be grateful if any wives, partners, girlfriends who are able to provide a tea or two at our home fixtures would make themselves known to her as soon as possible (male tea providers are not excluded!!). Year in, year out we receive many compliments from our opponents about the quality of our match teas - long may this continue.

The ever expanding Junior section has its Junior Registration evening on Friday 24^th April and this will also be the first Junior training evening for the new season. Our Junior Coordinators, Simone Murrough and Mike Griffin, deserve our thanks for all the hard work that they do.

We are a welcoming and friendly Club, a Club at the heart of Merstham's community - we are not a commercial enterprise, indeed the joy of the club is that we are a members club. The Juniors have enjoyed some trophy success in recent years and it is very encouraging to see a number of our younger members being selected on merit to represent the Club in our senior teams.

I thank our team captains for accepting the captaincy responsibilty and all that goes with it. The Saturday 2^nd XI, led by Ray Shinners, has been very close to promotion in the past two seasons, fifth in 2007, fourth in 2008, whilst the Saturday 1^st XI, led by Dan Feist, finished fourth in 2007 and were eighth last year. Chris Lowe has stepped down as Saturday 3^rd XI captain to become Club Captain and I thank him for his past efforts and for creating a really good spirit amongst his team. I wish John Young, our new Saturday 3^rd XI captain every success this year. Richard Feist continues to lead our Sunday 1^st XI side and good luck to Mark Robson who takes over the Sunday 2^nd XI team. My thanks to Andy Pearce for his enthusiastic leadership of that team over the past few years. I hope that all team players will make a real effort to attend net practice/training sessions which will be held on Wednesday evenings this season. The old cricketing adage that catches win matches certainly rings true at Merstham and is perhaps an area we need to focus on this year. Cricket is by its very nature both a team and an individual sport and this is epitomised by the current England team. Stunning individual performances by the Flintoffs and Pietersens of this world are inspiring to watch but when they have an off day you most certainly need other players to step up to the mark with bat and ball, in the field or behind the stumps. It is important that we try to get off to a good start in the Fullers Brewery Leagues. Team morale is a key to success and the ability to encourage a team mate who is struggling a little can often have beneficial results.

With a number of changes to personnel on the committee it is important that you know who is who at the Club. A list of committee members will be displayed on the Club's website and on the notice board in the pavilion as will a list of key dates and social events for 2009. The new fixtures booklet will also be available to all members shortly. If I had a magic wand I would certainly wave it and we would have an uninterrupted season of sunny, warm, even hot weather, a season of enjoyable cricket for juniors and seniors alike. When the sun is shining and the wind has died down there is no more scenic a ground in the whole of Surrey than our own. We are close to achieving the ECB Clubmark accreditation, have exciting decisions to take regarding the pavilion and I look forward to seeing you during the course of the summer.

Yours,

Keith Rivers

Chairman

As some of you will be aware the Indoor Cricket League has been running again this year and this weeks see's the finals of the competiton and it is with great news that both Merstham teams will be taking part in the evening.

At 7pm The B team will play Nutfield in the Plate Competition

At 8pm the A Team will play South Nutfield in the Cup competition.

The game will take place at Hawthorns school and all supporters are welcome.

WEDNESDAY 22nd APRIL and FRIDAY 24th APRIL is the first week of outdoor Training. IT IS ALSO REGISTRATION EVENING.  Please put it in your diary and could all future players be accompanied by an adult. Reg forms will be emailed to you in the next week.  Happy Easter.....

U8/9 Fri    17.30 to 19h00
U10  Fri    17.30 to 19h00
U11  Fri    17.30 to 19h00
U12  Fri    17.30 to 19h00
U13  Fri    19h15 to 20h30
U14  Fri    19h15 to 20h30
U15  Fri    19h15 to 20h30
U16  Wed 18h30 to 20h30
U17  Wed 18h30 to 20h30

THE 17TH APRIL SEE'S THE RETURN OF THE MERSTHAM CRICKET CLUB GOLF DAY, CAN ANYONE TAKE THE TROPHY OFF THE SHINNERS?!!!!

The first tee will be at 1pm at Reigate Hill Golf Club with sandwichs provided after.

THE CRICKET CLUB PAVILLION WILL BE OPEN IN THE EVENING TO SEE IN THE NEW SEASON.

cost £25

Please let me know danfeist@gatton-park.org.uk if you or your friends would like to take part in the golf day.

Cheers

Dan

To ensure this site is kept as accurate as possible, please could any mistakes or errors please be reported to the webmaster by e-mailing mcc@mersthamcc.co.uk. We strive to maintain a high level of accuracy although inevitably mistakes occur. This request I am making also covers anything you think should be mentioned on the site and currently isn't, the site is here for the club and we want it to be as useful a possible a tool for our members.

In addition to this, if you think you could provide some interesting input for the site, be it match reports when the season is underway or current news around the club, get in touch with Mike for access to the site.

I do want to take this opportunity to remind you that this site is provided on a voluntary basis so prior commitments occasionally cause news and site content to be slightly out of date, we apologise for this but again we remind you that any work on this site is being carried out in our own time.

Regards and best wishes,
Mike Griffin

MERSTHAM CRICKET CLUB

EASTER CRICKET AND FOOTBALL

 COACHING CAMP

Wednesday15 April - Friday 17 April

To book please contact Dan Feist on 07793 952 496  or danfeist@gatton-park.org.uk or Spencer on s.ogilvie2@ntlworld.com