Marsa C.C on top of the League

Krishna batted first with Simon Mayeri and Andy Lenard opening the innings. Mayeri did not trouble the scorers and was soon back in the pavilion. Lenard went on to retire (local rule where a batsman retires after facing thirty balls).

Lenard scored thirty runs. Bikram Arora also retired scoring thirty one runs which included one six and two fours. Sam Aquilina played well for twelve runs. With extras the Krishna team totalled 112 runs. For Melita Steve Mault was the main wicket taker with two. Four other bowlers took a wicket each.

In reply the game was in a balance until Ian Pendlebury scored a magnificent thirty runs from twenty two balls which included four fours and a six. In these past two games he has really come out of the closet with his batting. Nowell Khosla also made thirty runs and batted well hitting two sixes and a four.

The winning runs came in the eighteenth over for the Melita team. For Krishna Kevin Krishna was the main wicket taker with two. Melita earned seven points from the win  and now have eight points. Krishna  earned one point and also have eight points.

In the second game Overseas C.C batted first against Marsa C.C. Mike Caruana and Roger Bradley opened the batting. Both batsmen managed to retire. Caruana scoring twenty seven runs and Bradley three. Paul Bradley also retired and scored twenty five runs.

Seven more batsmen batted and totalled twenty four runs between them. Sarfraz Ali was the main wicket taker for Marsa with three. The Marsa batting proved too strong with fine performances from Dave Borg (twenty six runs retired), Matt Booth (nineteen runs), Frank Spiteri (twelve runs), Mark G.Sacco (twelve runs) and George Agius (ten runs).

The winning runs for Marsa also came in the eighteenth over. For the Overseas Paul Bradley was again the main wicket taker with two. Marsa earned seven points for the win and now top the league with fourteen points. Overseas did not earn any points and our at the bottom of the league table.

Next Saturday Melita C.C play Overseas C.C and Marsa C.C play Krishna C.C