Great news. Merstham CC have been selected to be the ECB Showcase Club for the 2012 NatWest Cricket Force weekend. being held at Quality Street on Friday 30 March.

Please come to the Reigate Manor Hotel on Thursday 9th Feb and help make the event a day to remember.

Please see attached  for additional information, please contact Graeme so he has an idea of numbers for catering

Winter nets start at St Bedes School, Carlton Road, Reigate. These nets are open to current members of Merstham Cricket Club only.

We have a very succesful colts section which is currently full, so please, if you are not a member of the Colts section do not turn up at the winter nets session until you have confirmation from Simone that there is space. email Simone

Sessions are from Sunday 5^th Feb until Sun 25^th March inclusive

12:45 – 14:00 Adults and U16, U15

14:05 – 15:00 U14/U13/U12
15:05 – 16:00 U11/U10/U9 (current Yr 6, Yr 5, Yr4)

If you would like to take part in the Merstham CC indoor cricket team, the league matches take place at the Hawthorns School, on Wednesday nights. Please get in touch with Richard Feist asap.

The new season is starting soon, any members who want to circulate club news please get in touch with website, or tel. 07751 804780. 

Priority Tickets from the Ticket Office for Friends of Surrey Cricket available to Merstham members:

Richard Feist will be running some training sessions at the Hawthorns School over the winter months.

These sessions are being run by Richard and not by Merstham Cricket Club, however, Merstham Cricket Club will be receiving a donation.

Squads will not be picked, and you will not automatically be entitled to join Merstham Cricket Club by attending the sessions run at the Academy.

However, any additional practice over the winter months can keep the cob webs off the cricket whites.

Please contact Richard for further details email Rich

If you would like to read the blog from Dan's trip to Kenya with “Cricket without boundaries” please click on the link read the blog

Read all the U9 winning the ESCL league and Sports Award

Click to read Report email Rich

Read all about the adventures from the bike ride and get in touch with Dan to sponsor him

Click to read Report email Dan

Read all about the adventures from the bike ride and get in touch with Dan to sponsor him

Click to read Report  email Dan

The 2011 season has ended. At Merstham Cricket Club we are very fortunate to have a strong membership and the U9 to U16 age groups are full.

We are collating a waiting list. If you would like to register an interest in joining, please contact Simone by email only, with your child's full name and current school year, your child will be added to the waiting list.

As you will appreciate we are being inundated with requests to join the successful Merstham Cricket Club and we can not guarantee a place to your child even if they are on the waiting list.

The 2012 season will begin with winter nets starting in February 2012, details with timings etc will be sent out in the New Year. The outdoor training at Quality Street will start during Apr and ends in August, dates to be confirmed.

Four members of Merstham Cricket Club were worthy winners at the Reigate & Banstead 2011 Sports Awards.

Bob MacGillivray won Volunteer of the Year, Ben Lankshear received an award for his involvement in disability sport, Dave Loader received recognition with an award for still showing a thing or two to the younger players with an award for Senior Citizen and the Under 9s picked up the team of the year.

Many congratulations go to all the winners and our thanks to them all for their hard work.

Please sponsor Dan Feist who is taking part on 9th October with other members of Merstham Cricket Club in a sponsored Bike Ride.

Dan is raising money for “Cricket without boundaries”. He is off to Kenya shortly to use his skills, knowledge and enthusiasm for cricket. He will be coaching cricket to children living with Aids and HIV.

The ride will see Dan and other members from the club start at Merstham’s Quality Street ground and make their way to the County Ground Hove, with the aim to play an over of Cricket at 12 clubs on route, these are listed below.

Merstham cc – Nutfield cc – Godstone Green – South Nutfield cc – Outwood cc – Lingfield cc – Crawley Down cc – Balcombe cc – Cuckfield cc – Haywards Heath cc – Ditchling cc – Brighton & Hove cc – Sussex County Ground.

If you would like to sponsor Dan please click on the link Daniel

The 1st Team finally secured promotion after gaining an easy win over Croydon MO on a terrible pitch at Chaldon.

Congratulations must go to Ed Loader the Captain and in particular to Nasir Hossain, who in his first season at the club has gained an amazing record of 71 wickets, unbelievable !!! Joe Shinners, Manish Patel, Simon Rivers, Ali Pervaiz, Adeel Ahmed, Wasil Mohar, Ed Dawson who was behind the stumps in his first season was a welcome new addition as well as Nav Saeed, Liam Powell and James Lowe.

The 2nd Team ,after gaining promotion last season, have now finished 4th after their first season in Division 1 of the Fullers League, a tremendous achievement. Congratulations go to Richard Feist and Jason Drewett with Andy Rivers, Neil Maplesden, Jason Kyte and Imran and Safyan Aslam being the mainstays of this team alongside the evergreen Dave Loader.

The 3rd Team managed to secure 7th place out of 17 after narrowly avoiding relegation last season . Saqib Khan has done really well with help from many experienced players and youngsters coming through with much maturity. Notably Shakir khan, Lithon Tarodfer showing great consistency with the bat alongside Jeff Spencer and Arsalan Abbas.

The new 4th team as well managed to win some games and enjoy plenty of competitive League cricket. Mike Wadsley doing a great job with Kashif Noon scoring the most runs and having the best average by far. With the ball Ben Carter showed great promise and it is here that we applaud Rob Wood, our only Godstone player who, behind the stumps integrated seamlessly into Merstham Cricket Club. A great season, well done to all our Saturday League teams.

Can all winners from last year pls. return your trophy < Ali. thank you for your quick reply>to Graeme or Michael for cleaning etc. in preparation for the dinner dance.

Merstham CC hosted the first August Big Bash on Wednesday 3rd July. Mixed teams of 8 players from 5 local companies, Towers Watson, Simply Sports, Just Retirement, Travellers and Agears enjoyed a fun filled evening of cricket.

If you would like to enter a team, please contact Dan Fiest.

Surrey County Cricket held their fourth annual OSCA's at The Oval on Wednesday 3rd July. Elizabeth Donkin collected the award for Young Volunteer. Elizabeth has recently qualified as a coach and plays an active role in the girls and disability coaching on a Wednesday at QS. She is also the team manager of the Surrey U13 girls. This is a well deserved award.

Chris Lowe also recevied recognition for his work in building a partnership with Godstone Cricket Club. Chris was unable to collect his award in person, luckily Terry G was on hand to accept it on behalf of Chris and the Club.

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Congratulations to the U9s and U13s and U14s for being league champions. Well done to the U15s league runners up.

Merstham U9s have won the clubs first trophy of the 2011 season. They took part in the six aside tournament held at Capel and came away triumphant winners. Many congratulations to all.

Continuing the development of the Merstham Magics disability team, Merstham arranged a festival held at Quality Street on the 2nd June.

Now boasting 25 members, Merstham Magics made up the majority of the players. A team from Sussex and Wallington also took part in the festival.

The group was split in to 2 teams.  The Wallington Players joining the Merstham Magics to become Surrey and they took on their Sussex counterparts.

The standard of play in both matches led to an entertaining day for the spectators as balls were hit for boundaries at regular intervals and wickets being taken by direct bowling.

In the first game, Sussex score of 275. This turned out to be too many for Surrey who finished on 250. Following a break for Ice Creams, Sussex again posted a competitive total of 252 and again this proved too much for Surrey who finished on 240.

The day finished with a BBQ for all players and spectators. A rematch has already been planned to take place in the summer.

Merstham Magics are looking forward to their next games against Wallington and a team from Horsham over the next half term.

For more information about the Magics who train on a Wednesday evening between 5-6pm please contact Dan Feist