BOBBY Sher has challenged Slough Cricket Club to raise their game ahead of the mouth-watering clash with Henley this Saturday.

Slough have made a slow start to the new Home Counties League season and are without a win from their first three fixtures.

Rain intervened in the match at Upton Court Road against Great & Little Tew on Saturday when Sher felt his side had a “good chance of winning”.

Henley will welcome Slough to The Brakspear Ground following three straight wins, so Sher has issued a rallying call to his players.

“It will be tough on Saturday so we need to up our game by 15 per-cent to get anything,” he told the Observer. “All of the boys will need to raise their game.”

“Henley have been in great form and we’ve not won a match yet, so it’s a very important game for us, but it is still very early in the season.”

Slough made 252-8 from their 50 overs against Great & Little Tew with Shaan Khan (79) and Sher (46) the pick of the batsman.

Robbie Shurmer led the bowling attack with figures of 3-53, and he was supported by Joseph Thomas (2-40) and Lawrence Brock (2-47).

“We got 252, it should have been 280, but we showed a bit of fightback from the position we were in,” said Sher. “We lost wickets in a bit of a cluster but 252 would have given us a very good chance of winning the game.”

Iklaq Nawaz Raja took the wicket of Joseph White for a duck, but only three balls of the visitors’ innings was possible before rain force the match to be abandoned.