Marsa C.C win fourth title

The Krishna team batted first. They had a poor start losing two key players in Andy Lenard and Javed Shah by the third over with only a run between them. Bikram Arora entered and with Sunny Krishna steered their team to a reasonable total.  Arora was to retire (local rule) after thirty balls and scored thirty four runs which included four fours.

Sunny went on to make nineteen runs before being caught in the deep by Ronnie Sacco. John Grima was the only other batsmen who made it into double figures scoring eleven runs. The final score was 104 runs. For the Marsa team Derek Ali and Sarfraz Ali both took three wickets while Dave Borg and Ronnie Sacco took a wicket each.

In reply the Marsa team also had a bad start losing Justin Thorne (six runs) and Frank Spiteri (no runs) in the second over to the bowling of Adam Krishna. Matt Booth (twenty two runs) and Malcolm Crabbe (sixteen runs) both settled well, but once the Krishna team took their wickets , there was a sense of victory, three more wickets fell and the Krishna  team were with their tails up. 

Derek Ali had other ideas, he batted patiently , hit out at calculated times and took his team to victory making thirty one runs from twenty five balls which included two sixes and a four. For Krishna Tony Azzopardi and Bikram Arora also took two wickets each while Kevin Krishna took a wicket.

The final standings of the league are as follows; Marsa C.C 39 points, Melita C.C  36 points , Krishna C.C 18 points and Overseas C.C 13 points.

The win gave Marsa C.C their fourth title win.

On Sunday the Marsa team took on new touring team I Zingari C.C from the united Kingdom in a thirty five over game. The Marsa team batted and totalled 164 runs. Bikram Arora top scored with forty runs, Frank Spiteri thirty eight runs, Andy Naudi twenty nine runs and Sunny Krishna twenty runs as the main contributors.

For the visitors Chamberlins, Carroll and Stafford took two wickets each, while Gilmore took a wicket.

In reply the tourists pushed hard with Earl Fortesche (thirty six runs), A. Martin Smith (thirty one runs), Lord Stafford (ten runs) u A.Carroll (thirty three runs). The game went to the last over where the visitors needed ten runs to win. In a frenzy the tourists lost their last three wickets and only made one run and therefore the home team won by eight runs.

Next weekend sees new touring team Effigies C.C playing the Marsa team in a two game series. Both games starting at 10:30am. On Saturday the cricket academy/nursery will be from 9:00am till 10:30am.