Remfry gets Horley off to flyer

BEN TOP-SCORED WITH 76 RUNS IN WIN OVER OLD WHITGIFTIANS

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HORLEY Cricket Club's first team kept up their good form in Surrey Championship Division Four East, beating Old Whitgiftians by five wickets.

Horley were asked to field first, a decision that Horley skipper Regan Derham would've made anyway. Ben Davies (1-10) and Will Taylor (1-39) made a very tight start, with Davies unlucky not to pick up the early scalp of Gunjit Madra, when Adam Stephenson was unable to cling on at third slip.

Davies wouldn't be denied though, as at the end of the 12th over he found his way through the defences of Jonathan Higgins to get Horley's first breakthrough, making the score 37-1. Madra was making the most of his life, bringing up his 50 in the 16th over.

Guy Derham (3-36) came into the attack and got to work quickly, striking in his second over to reduce Old Whits to 71-2 after 18. This started a little purple patch for the Horley bowlers, with Stephenson (2-34) picking up two and Guy Derham finding the crucial wicket of Madra, caught by Taylor for 60, so by the time the 27th over came around, Whits were 87-5.