Merstham CC Needs You!

Anybody who would be interested in umpiring during the 2011 season please get in touch with Ed Loader.

The Merstham Magics (Merstham Disability Team) won their first game last night with a close fought victory over the Wallington Warriors, fielidng first, Merstham kept Wallington down to 65 - 3 with wickets shared around and good fielding by all the players. In reply, Merstham started slowly but managed not to lose any wickets against tight bowling, then some heavy blows towards the end of the innings got Merstham over the line to victory, the Magics next game will be on the 2nd March at Hawthorns School.

The 3rd XI and 4th XI teams will be playing Home games at Godstone Green this season. Both teams are in the Rymans Surrey Championship. It is hoped we have plenty of players from Godstone CC wishing to play in the teams. In deciding to run a 4th XI League team the Committee are sure this is a step forward for the Club with many younger players gaining experience as well as the influx of experienced players from Godstone. We fully expect healthy competition for places and hope for a good turn out in the nets.

The 3rd XI are in Division 2 and have their first League match on 7th May at Home to Farnham and the 4th XI are in the Central Division, with their first League match on the 21st May v Chessington.

Congratulations to the 2nd Team that have been promoted to Division 1 of the 2nd X1 League for 2011. Rob Young will have a tough challenge ahead of him for 2011 but with so many great results last season I am sure the team will enter the top division with no fear at all and plenty of confidence.

Merstham club kit is now available to buy on line.

Winter training has started for the Girls and Disability groups at Merstham.

These sessions run on Wednesday nights at Hawthorns School

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.