Horley move up to second in table after 37-run victory

ALL three Horley Cricket Club men’s Saturday teams won their league matches this weekend, scoring a combined total of 809 runs.

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The first XI travelled to play Cheam in Surrey Championship Division Four East and won by 37 runs, helped by Luke Smith scoring 55 not out.

Horley elected to bat and on a lighting quick outfield, mastered the conditions better, aided by poor bowling, where extras were third top scorer with 45, including 29 wides.

Horley started brightly with 20 runs on the board in the first three overs, then Ben Remfry was undone by Rashid Khan (3-56), bowled for ten.

CP Singh joined Sam Remfry and a thoughtful partnership developed, rotating the strike until Singh was out for 27, brilliantly caught by Kicho Renganath, running backwards at midwicket, with the score on 72.

In the 26th over Sam Remfry, who had never looked in trouble, was adjudged lbw to Yuvraj Ranchal for 46. Captain Regan Derham struck a couple of nicely timed boundaries but was then unlucky to be out, chopping the ball downwards only to see it roll back onto the stumps.

From 125-4, Ben Davies and Luke Smith put on 47 for the fifth wicket. Davies played as sensibly as those before him but was eventually bowled by Rashid Khan for 28, including four fours. Next man in Jon Barnett was run out without troubling the scorers.

Smith batted for 22 overs taking each ball on its merit, aided by some inaccurate attempted run-outs which added eight runs to his tally with two lots of four overthrows. He and Matt Gainsford put on 52 before Gainsford was bowled for 26, attempting to put the ball out of the ground and the score was 233-7.

Will Taylor made 14 before being smartly caught and bowled by Rashid Khan. Adam Stephenson (2no) added another 12 runs with Smith before the innings closed at 268-6

Horley took Cheam's first wicket in the fifth over when Davies (4-38) caught and bowled skipper Abdul Rehan.