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Colts round-up: Merstham’s Under-9s Eagles have won two of their opening three matches, including the eagerly awaited match against their clubmates, the Under-9s Hawks.
Their only defeat has been to Reigate Priory, who have also defeated the club’s Under-10s in their first match of the season.
Fuller’s County League Division One
Merstham 235-8
Merstham’s first team notched up a winning double on Bank Holiday weekend, with victory in the first Fuller’s League Division One game of the season as well as making further progress in the league cup.
Captain Naveed Saeed decided to ask visitors Chaldon CMO to bat in Saturday’s league game and his decision was rewarded when they were all out for 124.
As part of our continued "Friends of Surrey Cricket" affiliation with Surrey County Cricket Club, we have been given 50 tickets to the Surrey vs Glamorgan T20 Blast match on Friday 15th May.
The tickets are in OCS Block 20, Lower Tier and are available to any registered club member. Play begins at 6:30pm.
Surrey County Fuller’s League Cup, 1st round
Merstham 247-8
Merstham's development team were outplayed by opponents Normandy in their first Trust League fixture of the season.
A strong Normandy team, who won the toss and elected to bat, saw off a decent start by Rory Crouch (10), whose wicket went to the pace of Mackenzie.
Junior members, particularly aged under-13 to under-16, are encouraged to put themselves forward for Sunday's 'inter-club' match where, nominally, the Sunday first team will face the Sunday second team. In reality this will be mix and match. The idea of the fixture is to integrate young (under-18) players into the senior ranks and introduce them to the 40+ over version of the game they will encounter when called up to adult senior games during the season.
The fixture is the brainchild of Bobby Sharp, our fixtures secretary who himself has benefited from playing senior cricket well before he was 18. Sunday seconds captain Bill Ash will be wearing a coloured armband in memory of Terry Garrett. Anyone who is available should contact Sunday seconds captain Jon White.
The combined Sunday first and second team started the season with a victory in a tight game against Lingfield New Chapel. After losing the toss Merstham were put into bat and made slow progress to reach 50 in the 17th over. Skipper Jon White (27), Bobby Sharp (57) and Will Prior (20) accelerated the accumulation, but wickets continued to fall, with all down in the 41st over of a timed game for 164. Lingfield made an encouraging start (99-2) with the score galloping along at four or five runs an over until the ball was put into vice captain Bill Ash's hands. Ash captured seven of the Lingfield wickets in a 15 over spell for 53 runs. Joe Rees-Davies wrapped up the innings with the final wicket, giving Merstham victory by a slim 14 runs, the visitors batting 40.3 overs, two more balls than their hosts.
Training sessions for junior members start on Friday April 17 and then carry on during the week starting Monday April 20.
Please see the net practice and training page for details of when your age group trains.