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.

About 20 volunteers from Merstham Cricket Club took part in the national NatWest Cricket Force weekend activities, co-ordinated by the England and Wales Cricket Board as a way of encouraging members at all clubs in the country to prepare their club for the season. This year, Merstham decided to concentrate their activities on The Ring, on Earlswood Common, just down from St John's Church. This ground is where our third and fourth teams play on a Saturday, as well as where some junior matches are played. Tasks on Saturday included repainting the inside of the pavilion, including changing rooms and the shower floor as well as giving the kitchen a thorough clean. Volunteers came from across the whole club, juniors as well as adult players from all four Saturday teams and the two Sunday teams, plus club officials.

Then on Sunday, at the club's main home in Quality Street, Merstham, some regular maintenance was carried out to ensure the ground was in order in time for next weekend's opening friendly of the season. We are hoping to build on our 150th anniversary season last year, when the first team won the Fuller's League Division Two title. Anyone interested in playing from under 7s upwards, should email club captainRichard Feist (adults) or (juniors) Simone Murrough.

The funeral of Terry Garrett, a long-standing member and a treasurer of the club for more than 20 years, will take place on Tuesday April 28th.

This will be at Randalls Park Crematorium, Leatherhead, at 1.15pm. Family flowers only. Donations in his name can be made to St Catherine's Hospice, either at the service or through the Co-op funeral services in Woodhatch.

Our annual involvement in the NatWest CricketForce weekend, where club members are encouraged to prepare their club's facilities, for the season, will take place on the weekend of April 11-12.

Could your company be our club sponsor? Buy £50 raffle tickets for your chance to be our main sponsor.

Merstham Cricket Club is pleased to offer different types of sponsorship, allowing businesses of all sizes the opportunity to sponsor our ever developing and increasingly popular cricket club. 

A number of enquiries have been made on behalf of children in Reception Class age-group to join Merstham Cricket Club.

However, the club only trains children who are in School Year 1 and above at present.

If, however, a parent were to come forward and wishes to become a coach in order to train children who are in Reception Year, then it is possible that we would take on coaching this age-group, but we do not offer training to this age at present. Anyone who is prepared to become a coach to do that should contact Simone Murrough.

Merstham Cricket Club welcomes enquiries from girls of primary school age who want to learn to play cricket.

Training will take place on Friday evenings from late April, between 6-7pm.

Sutton Cricket Club is holding an introduction to umpiring course on March 25, something which would prove of benefit to anyone who regularly finds themselves carrying out the role of umpire during matches, even for a few overs while their side is batting.

This course runs over an evening and lasts for approximately 2.5 hours. It covers the essential Laws that anyone will need to get started in umpiring, and is particularly useful for those who might umpire occasionally, as parents at a junior match, or perhaps while playing in a game themselves, or coaching.