The 1st Team finally secured promotion after gaining an easy win over Croydon MO on a terrible pitch at Chaldon.

Congratulations must go to Ed Loader the Captain and in particular to Nasir Hossain, who in his first season at the club has gained an amazing record of 71 wickets, unbelievable !!! Joe Shinners, Manish Patel, Simon Rivers, Ali Pervaiz, Adeel Ahmed, Wasil Mohar, Ed Dawson who was behind the stumps in his first season was a welcome new addition as well as Nav Saeed, Liam Powell and James Lowe.

Can all winners from last year pls. return your trophy < Ali. thank you for your quick reply>to Graeme or Michael for cleaning etc. in preparation for the dinner dance.

Merstham CC hosted the first August Big Bash on Wednesday 3rd July. Mixed teams of 8 players from 5 local companies, Towers Watson, Simply Sports, Just Retirement, Travellers and Agears enjoyed a fun filled evening of cricket.

If you would like to enter a team, please contact Dan Fiest.

Surrey County Cricket held their fourth annual OSCA's at The Oval on Wednesday 3rd July. Elizabeth Donkin collected the award for Young Volunteer. Elizabeth has recently qualified as a coach and plays an active role in the girls and disability coaching on a Wednesday at QS. She is also the team manager of the Surrey U13 girls. This is a well deserved award.

Chris Lowe also recevied recognition for his work in building a partnership with Godstone Cricket Club. Chris was unable to collect his award in person, luckily Terry G was on hand to accept it on behalf of Chris and the Club.

Congratulations to the U9s and U13s and U14s for being league champions. Well done to the U15s league runners up.

Merstham U9s have won the clubs first trophy of the 2011 season. They took part in the six aside tournament held at Capel and came away triumphant winners. Many congratulations to all.

Continuing the development of the Merstham Magics disability team, Merstham arranged a festival held at Quality Street on the 2nd June.

Now boasting 25 members, Merstham Magics made up the majority of the players. A team from Sussex and Wallington also took part in the festival.

The group was split in to 2 teams.  The Wallington Players joining the Merstham Magics to become Surrey and they took on their Sussex counterparts.

The fantasy cricket league will be running again this season.  Entry £10 please pay via paypal in the members area or via Richard.  Click here to register your team, password 001626Mersth26dbd0.  Please contact Richard if you need any assistance in picking your team!

The prizes are listed below, in addition there will be Manager of the month who wins a jug from the bar.

The annual MCC golf day has been arranged for 12th August.

Lucie Joanna Vincent was born 25th April 12:03pm weighing 7lbs 14oz. Both Mum and baby doing great.

One notable feature is a large dark mop of hair!