Merstham maintained their winning form with an excellent bowling display against Merrow, taking their recent record to four wins from their last five games.

Winning the toss and electing to bat, Merstham got off to a poor start with captain Laurie Nicholson (9) being dismissed following a bottom edge onto his stumps. His opening partner Jason Kyte (26) looked assured and positive before missing out to a full delivery and being bowled.

Merstham beat Surrey Championship Division Five leaders Chertsey by five wickets thanks to Noman Javed’s outstanding 139 not out.

Merstham 175
Kempton 176-6
Surrey Championship Division Five

Graeme Law rounds up recent Under 11 matches, while Sara Smalley reports on another Under 14s nailbiter!

Earlier this molnth, Merstham beat Capel in the quarter-finals of the Under 14 ESCL Cup.

Horsley & Send 121

Weybridge Vandals 153

Last weekend wasn’t so much a bad day at the office for the two Under 11 teams, but rather a catastrophic disaster where the corporate internet went down, half the sales team quit and the junior receptionist ran off to South America with the keys to the coffee machine and the contents of the company bank accounts.

The nightmare started even before a ball was bowled in the ESCL game on Friday evening, a pre-match "training ground” accident seeing Thomas Harris fracturing his elbow.  Put into bat against a very strong Trinity Mid-Whitgiftian team (who were fielding some of their Division 1 table-topping side), the team then got off to a terrible start, with two run-outs in the very first over.

Merstham’s Under 14 Falcons beat Dorking U14s in the first round of the ESCL Cup in a re-arranged match on Monday 4th June.

Merstham 141