For the first time in at least two years, all four Merstham Saturday league teams won - and all of them remain top of their respective divisions.

Batsman Noman Javed steered Merstham’s first team to another comfortable victory in the Fuller's League Division One, after their bowlers had restricted second placed Frimley, who were also previously unbeaten, to 184 all out.

The middle order batsman’s knock included punishing an opening bowler’s second spell by striking fours off all six balls of one over ushering the ball around the park.

Javed went on to 57 not out, aided and abetted by Ed Dawson’s 46 before he was bowled by Dion Parsons, the opening bowler’s only wicket.

Earlier, Joe Shinners, who took a year out from cricket last season, had set the tone with 38, constructed in a measured, sensible innings that captain Nav Saeed expects from his opening batsmen.

That set Merstham on course to win by six wickets in the 40th over, having earlier dismissed the visitors for a modest score.

Assessing the damp wicket after rain the day before, Saeed opted to bowl, letting paceman Suliman Younis loose on an unsuspecting attack after a holiday.

Figures of 3-39 off nine overs was the reward, dismissing one opener and two at the end, with Asim Jafferi returning 2-29 off nine. Tharusha Tilakarathne took 2-41 and Imran Kakar 3-26 in an all-round bowling performance.

Saeed said: “It’s brilliant - we’ve still got a couple of people unavailable and probably the strongest bowling attack in the league.

“The opposition had also won four games and they were very impressed with our bowling as well as our batting.”

The team travel to Deando Ruxley on Saturday in the league and host Thames Ditton, the division’s bottom side, in the cup at Quality Street on Sunday, with Saeed not treating the cup lightly.

“I send my team out to win every game. Some teams don't take the cup seriously and play a weakened team, but I’ve won the cup before with Wallington and I’ve got a good pedigree of winning trophies," said Saeed, who led Merstham to the division two title last season.

“But we’re taking every game at a time. We’ve had some difficult away games and had no preparation at the start of the season before our first cup game and the next game is at home, which is a bit of an advantage.”

For the seconds, Ameer Pasha starred with the bat at number eight and the ball. They defeated the only other team not to have suffered a loss, Wallington, to remain top of the Surrey County League 2nd XI Premier.

Neil Maplesden (18) made a decent start, as did Jason Kyte (23) and Liam Powell (23) but then came a mini collapse when they went from 69-2 to 76-6, mainly to Paul Hubbard (4-33).

Lithon Tarofder (32) shared a partnership of 49 with Pasha (50 not out, passing 1,700 runs for the club) who also put together 44 with C Ranawaka (28) to amass 211 all out.

As it turned out, they didn’t need all those runs because of a fabulous bowling performance, dismissing their hosts in the 29th over for 93.

Opener Safyan Aslam sent back both openers to the pavilion with the score on 26, on his way to 4-20 off 9 overs, 3 maidens.

Ranawaka took 2-50 off 9 to dismiss batmen three and four before Aslam took two more, Pasha polished off the tail with 4-3 off 5.3 overs (3 maidens) while Tarofder returned a tight 0-7 off 5, 1 maiden.

Third team skipper Mark Robson tweeted his delight with his team, who remain top of the Surrey Championship 3rd XI East Division after a 112-run win over Dorking.

@realmarkrobson "so proud of my team today! Great win at Dorking. Good batting and even better bowling. Best thing was the team spirit! Thanks"

James Lowe struck exactly 50 in the middle order, putting on 61 with Justin David (31) for the fourth wicket. Openers Rory Crouch and Asim Ashraf had scored 23 and 18. Robson added 16 to take the score to 182-9.

In reply, openers David (2-13, 3 maidens, off 9 overs) and Jon Coleman (3-23, 3 maidens, off nine) both bowled tightly and dismissed the top four. Imran Aslam took 2-11 off 4 and Bobby Sharp three wickets in a fabulous bowling attack to dismiss their opponents in 28 overs for 70 runs. 

The fourths remain top of the Surrey Championship 4th XI East Division. They were put into the field, which turned out to be fortuitous, especially after Omer Shuja  (1-15 off 7 overs, 2 maidens) struck in the first over, Dorking’s No 2 batsman taking a ill-judged swing at the first ball he faced.

The key wicket, arguably, was the second, Khan Mohamed taking a fantastic catch, running in from the boundary to dismiss Tharindu Karunaratne, who looked comfortable, for 26 off Tony Rickards (3-30 off 6.4).

It took a while for the wicket’s bounce to settle but it had done so - more or less - by the time Marcus Kyte, Shuja’s fellow opener, returned for his second spell.

Like brother Jason, he is one who has come up the Merstham youth production line. His second spell was rewarded as he finished with 3-21 off nine overs including clean bowling the visitors’ top scorer Graham Owton (46).

Alex Goodey’s great arm was key to a late run-out (off captain Rickards’ bowling) as Merstham dismissed the division’s newcomers for 154 in the 40th over.

Having chased down 167 a fortnight before, the home team fancied their chances if even just two of their batting options performed.

Opener Kashif Noon has been in form this season, but was caught for four. A couple of quick dismissals later, including a controversial caught behind dismissal of Will Prior, and things didn't look too rosy. Bharat Sahani looked steady before being bowled for 16, while Shuja, whose stand with Noon defeated Battersea two weeks before, managed 10.

Mohamed was accruing runs nicely, however, and the run rate was still at under four an over when a determined Ian Lamont joined him at 44-5 off 15 overs.

A boundary an over would do it, they reminded themselves, as long as they could stay in.

The information manager put on his "you'll have to fight to get my wicket" mask - partly in a bid to banish memories of his umpiring - and blocked, left and nudged his way to assisting Khan to 32, before Khan was caught.

There were wides aplenty and, succumbing to one moment of temptation, Lamont tried to reach one of them, only to fall over, much to the amusement of his wife cackling on the sidelines.

There will be some sewing to do this week.

Running a generous glut of 25 byes in a generous helping of 46 extras during the course of the innings, the run rate teetered between four and 3.5 an over. 

The hosts were grateful for the five penalty runs when the ball hit the helmet which the Dorking wicketkeeper had left on the field behind him, before captain Rickards and Lamont (34 not out, matching his third best score and including five fours) ran a final bye to win with just two balls to spare. 

Rain meant no play on Sunday, so all the adult games at the weekend were won.

* picture of the 4th team match by Bharat Sahani