Merstham Cricket Club has been presented with a certificate to show that it received a grant from the ECB for the Cricket World Cup Fund.

With England hosting the World Cup this year, clubs were able to apply for grants to improve their facilities by way of celebration. The club applied for a grant to spend on a glass washer for the bar, which we are sure you will agree has been a great success - especially if you have served behind the bar! We thank the ECB for its continued support during this summer, one in which England brought home the World Cup Trophy after a dramatic final at Lord's.

Merstham Cricket Club has achieved Clubmark status yet again, after much hard work by club officials led by Bernard Feist.

Merstham will host the following Surrey games at Quality Street in the next few weeks.

Then on Wednesday August 14, Merstham will host the Surrey U12s with a 10am start.

Few teams can practise more often that the Merstham Magics, the club's disability team. Every week, winter and summer, they put in the effort under Dan Feist's careful guidance. So, when the chance of a match comes along, they are always ready and eager.

A great chance for Merstham to secure a victory in Surrey Championship Division Five fell apart at Byfleet on Saturday.

After a rain-delayed start, the Magics made a great start, having asked their hosts to bat.

Junior training has been cancelled this evening because of the wet weather, with Quality Street judged too slippery.

We look forward to seeing you all again soon!

Summer training camps - for cricket and football - will be run from next week at our Quality Street ground.

These will be run throughout the summer at various times. See the poster for full details and to book, or for enquiries email wackywickets&coaching@gmail.com, or telephone 07896 114068. Sessions are suitable for Years 1-6 and run until early September and sessions cost between £10 and £20.

Finn Harris scored 53 retired out as Merstham Magics beat the Lingfield Lancers to progress to the regional semi-finals of the Surrey Slam T20 midweek competition.

The teenager put on 77 for the first wicket, off nine overs, with Robin Hardman as the visitors made 124 from their innings, Ris Bakrania also bagging 20.

Merstham returned to winning ways with a complete all-round performance against league leaders Old Emmanuel in Surrey Championship Division Five, with captain Laurie Nicholson scoring a century and bowler Asim Jafferi taking five wickets.

Merstham elected to bat on what looked to be a very good Quality Street surface.

Merstham U13s won the local derby by 10 runs against Reigate Priory Llamas last Sunday in the East Surrey Colts League , on a beautiful sunny late June morning at Quality Street. Priory won the toss and put the home team in to bat. Merstham made a good start reaching 18-1 off their first three overs, but were then pegged back and by the halfway stage had only made 35 runs. Realising that 3.5 an over wasn't enough, Merstham pushed forwards, helped by partnerships of 20 by Max Yates and Matt Gray and 29 by Yates and Dinuk Jayamanne. Man of the match Yates was unluckily not to retire (at 30) for the second week running when he was bowled at 26. Second top scorer was James Pieters with 12. This was the first time that Merstham had made less than 100 this season and the team knew that they needed to bowl and field tidily to successfully defend this total. They did this well, giving away 24 less in extras than in their previous match. Merstham got off to a great start with with Edward Jobling taking a wicket in the first over. Priory came back with with a second wicket partnership of 36 which was eventually broken by Connor Thorpe getting an lbw. A steady fall of wickets after this saw Priory ten runs short of their target at the end of their 20 overs. Bowlers of the day were Jake Dean (2-0-2-7) and Yates (3-0-1-7), with a wicket each for Jobling, Thorpe, Dinuk Jayamanne, Gray and Pieters. Catches were taken by Jayamanne, Pieters and Jobling. Great teamwork by Merstham resulted in their fourth league win out of five and puts them in contention for the title.