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Khosla hits a half century
On Saturday the 40 over Winter series between Betfair C.C and Krishna C.C began. The series will be played before each round of the 20 over Winter league, meaning once every four weeks.
The Krishna team batted first in a very windy day. Nowell Khosla was not to bothered with the wind and was scoring freely and made fifty five runs including three fours. The next two batsmen did not worry the scorers much. John Grima in fine form recently kept it going and forty runs. Another five batsmen failed scoring fifteen runs between. Dhruv Duggal saved the innings with a fine twenty eight runs from nineteen balls. The Krishna team totalled 142 runs from their innings. For the Betfair team Mike Caruana took three wickets while Tony Azzopardi and Gordon Hewitt took two wickets each. One must note a good catch taken by Tony Azzopardi who ran ten meters and just getting his hands on the catch.
The Betfair reply had a very steady start with a twenty three run partnership between Dave Borg and Dave Mansfield. Mansfield being the first to go after a great piece of fielding from Kevin Krishna which had him run out. A good batting display came from Chris Naudi making twenty nine runs before being bowled. With sixty six runs needed to win Betfair looked out of the picture. At the wicket were Tony Azzopardi thirty one runs) and Mike Caruana (sixteen runs), gave the run chase a good go.
Alas they both were stumped by John Grima off the bowling of Will Nichols. They managed to take the score to 130 runs. Krishna win the first encounter. For Krishna Will Nichols finished with four wickets, a very good effort. Dhruv Duggal took two wickets and Robert Krishna took a wicket. During this innings there were two good catches, one by Darren Grech to dismiss Borg (twenty runs) who had to run and meet a hard hit ball at chest high, and the other by Tony Slater who had to move to his right full stretch with the wind pushing the ball away from him and still catching the ball.
Next weekend the Marsa C.C play against new touring team The Pimlico Strollers, from the United Kingdom, a forty over game on the Saturday and a twenty over game on the Sunday.
On Saturday the Sunoco Cricket academy/nursery will be from 9:00am till 10:30am.
