Will Preston on his way to 104 on Sunday
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Fuller’s Brewery Surrey County League Division One
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Merstham Eagles, one of two U9 sides, produced their performance of the season so far in overpowering Salfords, scoring 335-6 before Salfords replied with 269-8.
Luke Hirchfield opening up set the tone with a classy 25. Solid batting from the next two pairs including 14 from Ben Wright merely laid the platform for a blaze of power hitting from Will John Cox who hit 39 off 13 balls with four sixes and three fours.
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Unbeaten Fuller’s League Division One leaders Merstham made slightly heavy weather of beating Thames Ditton, who were the second opponents in a row to have a batsman score a century against them.
Merstham first team defeated Thames Ditton
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Merstham U9s entered two teams for the Capel 6-a-side festival last weekend. The Rhinos (Matty Beggs, Alex Bird, Will Carney, Harry Colbourne, Connor Morris and Michael Noad) and the Hippos (Dinuk Jayamanne, Will John-Cox, Jacob Law, Flynn McRobbie, James Pieters and Max Thomas) were separated in the group stages, and for much of the day it looked like the final would be an all-Merstham showdown.
Merstham under-10s dominated all areas of their ESCL league cup semi-final against Oxted & Limpsfield to beat them to reach the final on July 12.
Batting first, Merstham posted 340-7, a score that was never likely to be caught.
As part of our continued "Friends of Surrey Cricket" affiliation with Surrey County Cricket Club, we have been given tickets to the Surrey vs Gloucestershire T20 Blast match on Wednesday 1st July.
The tickets are available to any registered club member. Play begins at 6:30pm.
Fuller’s League Division One
This was the scene at Quality Street, where the second team played, when the other teams returned after their games
Captain Daniel Kite won the toss for the U10s and decided to bat first, his side posting a score that coach David Swan described as "always looking unbeatable", putting together 287.
This gave Merstham the opportunity to use all nine bowlers, each one returning their best bowling figures of the season. The fielding and bowling was exceptional. First ball of the innings: bowled Bateman, caught Kite. A total of 16 wickets says it all. Daniel Kite took three wickets and took three catches, taking the man of the match award on his first game as captain as Oxted and Limpsfield only managed 249 in reply.
Merstham 195 - 8 Wallington 196 - 2 On a fair afternoon at Hillside Gardens a largely Sunday second XI took on a strong Wallington side. Losing the toss, Merstham were put in but saw out all the 40 overs for the loss of eight wickets. Two Merstham batsmen were forced to retire: John Turner, who got us off to a good start against lively bowlers had to concede eventually to his pulled muscle, Ryan Murrough, playing his first Sunday match, running for him for most of 10 overs. Our septuagenarian all the same managed to hit a six amid his agony! Skipper Jon White was unlucky to miss out on a rapid half century, holing out on 48. A half century stand between Bharat Sahani and vice captain Bill Ash (29) in the last 10 overs kept the scoreboard moving. Bharat too (45) was unluckynot to pass his half century when struck by a sharply rising delivery on the forearm, making our second retired man. Callum Letts opened the bowling with an extraordinary over of no balls and wides but flattened the stumps twice with two blistering yorking balls. The Wallington top order then settled to knock the 196 required in just the 21st over. The Sunday side welcomed some new faces: in addition to Ryan we welcomed Paul Calafato and, making up or 10th man in the field, given our two injuries, was his 12 year old son, Brennan, who did a mighty job over a large midwicket area.