Merstham Cricket Club had a humdinger of a weekend, with the women's team making history in style on Sunday, after, on Saturday, the club's four adult league teams achieved the rarity of all winning on the same day. Making history by entering the Surrey Women's Cricket SMASH IT softball League for the first time, the ladies defeated hosts Salford, Reigate Priory and Horley to top their group. This sets them up nicely for the next round. The club's Saturday first team continued their assault on the Fuller's League Division Two with a third straight win, defeating hosts Shepperton by 28 runs. Having elected to bat on another glorious day for cricket, openers Daniel Kite and Andy Rivers put Merstham on a stable footing. They accumulated a 68-run partnership before Rivers was caught at first slip for 37. Shepperton picked up another quick wicket of Jaikumar Uvaraju with a smart catch behind the stumps. However, from there, captain Noman Javed (42), supported by the incredible mature batting display of the 16 year old opener Kite, pushed the total to 137 with some great power hitting before young Kite fell four short of his first half century for the first XI. The middle order continued to tick the scoreboard over and Merstham finished on 189. Shepperton, opening with Richard Barker and David Sheward started strongly against the opening attack of Asim Jaffri and Javeed. However, an ever-reliable Manish Patel took a brilliant diving catch to dismiss Sheward (19), who looked established at the crease. The spin attack of Humayoon Nasir and Mohsin Ali managed to contain and stymie the Shepperton middle order with Nasir picking up 3-14 off his nine overs. Despite picking up wickets at regular intervals Shepperton continued to bare down on Merstham's total. To the delight of Merstham, Jaffri came back to ease any squeaky bums by tidying up the lower order to finish off with 4-48, giving Merstham the win by 28 runs. In the Surrey Championship, Merstham seconds bowled out Stoke D'Abernon for 111 (Callum Letts, 3-17) with nine batsmen caught. Jason Drewett (39) and Jo Czerpak (20) top scored in the reply. The third team won at Old Whitgiftians. Struan Clark took 4-20 as the hosts were all out for 95. Andrew Clarke (32) top scored in the response. The fourth team bowled out Wimbledon for 138 (Omar Shuja 4-35, Alex Reeves 3-22) and after a well-managed run chase reached the total with an over to spare, Dilhan Jayamanne (30) and Asif Akhtar (52) setting a great platform. Captain Gopa Nair (18) and Sentil Rajaram (12 not out) completed the task.

Merstham first team couldn't maintain their winning start to the season in the Surrey County League Division Two, but the third and fourth team maintained their unbeaten starts. Sheen Park elected to bat against the first team and amassed 229-7 in their 45 overs (Luke Ashbery 103 not out). Humayoon Nasir bagged 2-35 off nine overs. Captain Ed Dawson (27), Daniel Kite (14), Andy Rivers (36) and Jaikumar Uvaraju (29) all made starts, but the hosts couldn't keep up with the run rate and finished on 167-7. The second team were all out for 57, chasing 220 at Thames Ditton. The third team chased Kingstonian's total of 194 (Luke Sanders bagging 2-25 and Alex Reeves 3-30, Richard Pitt 2-30). In reply, Jo Czerpak opened the innings with 103 with Ollie Barkwith (22) keeping him company the longest. Hamish Walker and Reeves were unbeaten at the end. Merstham 4s looked to capitalise on their opening day victory against Chipstead Coulsdon & Walcountians by chalking up their second victory of the campaign. Captain Gopa Nair won the toss and elected to bat. At first, this looked like the wrong decision with the opposition opening bowlers starting well and having Merstham at 30-3. Steve Duncan came in and steadied the batting line up and had a good fifth wicket partnership with the captain which saw the runs total up to 90-6 when both were out within a few overs. A brilliant 42 and 24 from Dilhan Jayamanne and Omar Shuja respectively saw the runs total up to 172 all out of 39.4 overs.

Things start well for Merstham in the field with Shuja and Finlay Willshire bowling tightly to open the innings. Shuja took the wickets of batters two and three in the first few overs. Senthil Rajaram came on as first bowling change for Willshire and took out two more wickets in quick succession.

The bowling and fielding remained tight from Merstham. Nair then brought himself on to bowl and was rewarded with the key wickets of their opener and also their top scoring bat, before bringing the Spin King (Jayamanne) in to the attack to take another two, for Willshire to come back in to the take at his more end to mop up the innings.

Roehampton got off to a fast start, their opening batters punishing some rusty opening bowling from Merstham openers Asim Jaffri and Humayoon Nasir, who dropped short too often on a green track. Jaffri eventually hit his straps to remove the first Roehampton opener, before first change Charan Msdian took over to control the Roehampton run rate with some vicious inswing bowling, picking up a thoroughly deserved 1-28 off 7.2 overs.

We are delighted to announce the first winner of our 100 Club draw. For the month of April Jon White's ticket no.26 was drawn at the club on Saturday 7th May and won him £45.60. Congratulations Jon!

The 100 Club is a fundraising prize draw that is drawn monthly all year round. For full details click here. You can join at any time and half of your annual £24 fee supports the club and the other half goes into the prize pots. You stand a chance of a prize every month, for 12 months, from the point you join.

Having spent time in Harefield Hospital over the winter, teenager Ben Jones decided to hold a charity match to raise money for them. This took place on Saturday 23rd April between Merstham's youngsters and an adult side. Here he reports on the occasion, which now could become an annual fixture.

Wow, what a day. In total we raised around a sum of £1,350 for Harefield hospital. An unbelievable sum which I think is mainly a credit to the people we have at this cricket club.

We welcome enquiries about joining Merstham Cricket Club at all age groups and have many teams and training for youngsters aged five upwards. We have opportunities for boys and girls.

Our outdoor season for all age groups started on Friday 22nd April at Quality Street Merstham RH1 3BB.

Merstham Cricket Club has launched a 100 Club - a club fundraising draw running 12 months of the year!

Merstham Magics - the club's disability side - had a triumphant day at the Surrey Cricket Centre in Guildford on March 27, winning all three of their matches and easily coming top of the table.

Batting first in an afternoon of pairs matches, they comfortably beat Rowledge Ramblers 65 to 25, then achieved their highest score of the afternoon, defeating Surrey Legends 114 to 63.

It's time to get ready for the new season - come and help your club prepare the ground at Quality Street on Saturday, 26th March from 10am to 2pm.

Dear members

Get into the swing of thinking about cricket in 2022 by signing up for our first ever golf day! This club fundraiser is being organised by our vice-chairman Jason Drewett, who has written the message below.

I am pleased to invite our members and parents to the MCC Golf Day on Friday 29^th April. We will meet at Reigate Hill Golf Club at 1pm (Country Club, Surrey | Reigate Hill Golf Club|Golf, weddings, parties) and tee times are from 2pm.