Merstham's U11s NEC side won for the second time this season, this time against Southern Railway & Kenley.
Merstham fielded first with Tristan opening the bowling. It was a steady start by Kenley with the first wicket falling in the 5th over bowled by Noah and stumped by Matt L. Jude and James both picked up a wicket each.
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Fuller’s Brewery Surrey County League Division One
Will Preston on his way to 104 on Sunday
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Merstham Cricket Club has successfully been awarded a grant to enhance its facilities, approved by Surrey County Cricket Club.
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.
Merstham first team defeated Thames Ditton
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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.
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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.
This was the scene at Quality Street, where the second team played, when the other teams returned after their games
Fuller’s League Division One
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.