Thanks everyone for attending the Dinner and Dance and Presentation night at Reigate Manor recently. It was a very interesting night with many old and new faces. The U11's were  league winners and the Sat 1,2,s finished high up in the League both just missing out on promotion, finishing 4th and 3rd respectively. The 3rd's first season in the Championship was successful in the fact that we managed to stay up; allowing us to develop further next season. Roy Pearson claimed the kitty for predicting the length of time for Graeme Attridges speech.

Well done to Ali Pervaiz for winning the Richard Turner batting award for the best League average (with 10 innings or more) at 54 runs per innings! 

 

Thanks to everyone who contributed in making the 2010 season a successful one on and off the field at Merstham. In terms of results the 1XI had our most successful season in the Fullers League in terms of results points and position as we finished 4th with 237 points, winning 10 out of the 16 games played. There were many notable contributions to our success with league centuries scored for the first time in 3 years from Peter Freeman and myself and Ali Pervaiz, Joe Shinners, Simon Rivers and Manish Patel all putting match winning innings together in the season. Richard Feist lived up to his potential as a finisher when chasing and all the lower order such as Vincent, Parrett, Newton, Mohar and Boughey performed when required. Wasil Mohar became our main strike bowler in his first full season in the 1XI and was supported in the seam department by many throughout the season with Shinners' bowling becoming increasingly dependable as well as Newton, Feist, Hatton, Patel and Preston backing them up. Rivers and Vincent provided the main spin options to give us an well balanced all round attack but many more bowlers all contributed when were called upon. In total 33 players were used in the Saturday 1XI league side but never was a player merely making up the numbers as everyone knew they had the ability and support of the team to perform. Thanks goes to Chris Lowe, Justin David and Rob Young for the selection process through all the league sides being a smooth process enabling us to on the whole get the 3 best sides available out on a Saturday afternoon. I hope everyone enjoyed their cricket this season as I know I enjoyed playing with all of you. I think we played the games with the correct balance of league competitiveness as well as maintaining the spirit of cricket throughout

Following on from the league season we had a very successful September winning all 4 games played in good spirits against friendly opposition. Notable performances came from Ameer Pasha narrowly missing out on his first century with 94 against Littlehampton, Clapham & Patching and our varied bowling attack with Farooq Naseer and David Loader picking up the most wickets.

 
 
 

THanks to Simon and Maria for making all the Friday Sat. Sun. world cup nights a big SUCCESS. What would it have been like if England had reached the final. We will never know!

 

At Quality Street today the Merstham U11 became league champions with a game to spare.  The game was won in the field with some amazing bowling, catches, and backing up.  What a great bunch of lads supported by some loyal parents, and Simon and Maria.   

 
 

So you think you know all about Merstham Cricket Club. Well here's your chance to prove it!

The Merstham CC Fantasy Cricket League. Just pick your own team packed with your favourite Merstham CC players and guide them through the season. There will be prizes for Manager of the Month as well as 1st, 2nd and 3rd place at the end of the season