The winter league has not yet resumed after the bad weather which has water logged the pitch. Next week weather permitting Krishna C.C will take on Melita C.C.

On Sunday the first touring team North Sussex Ukraine International C.C played the first of a three game series against Marsa C.C. In very cold conditions they won the toss and elected to bowl first.

William Irwin and Robert Woodman kept the Marsa opening batsmen at bay with good bowling. Zaheer Malik was the first batsman to go trying to hit Woodman for four and missed having his leg stump knocked over.

Nowell Khosla batted well but holed out to George Mangus for thirty seven runs. Joy Ghoseroy (nineteen runs), Mike Smith (seventeen runs) and Javed Shah (ten runs) kept the runs ticking.

Then came the match winning partnership of Ronnie Sacco and Sarfraz Ali. They put on ninety two runs. Ali had to retire when on thirty runs. Sacco remained till the end of the innings on seventy two runs not out. Marsa totaled 241 runs. The tourists used nine bowlers. The most successful bowlers were Robert Woodman and Sam Lowther with two wickets a piece.

The North Sussex batsmen were very cautious having to face out some good bowling from Nadeem Ashraf and Mike Smith. Nadeem had the first wicket of Sam Lowthers being well caught by Ronnie Sacco at second slip.

Next wicket of Matthew Donegan was clean bowled by Zaheer Malik for eleven runs. M.Bassett batted well for thirty seven runs as did Leo Anderson (twenty two runs), Christopher Webb (thirty two runs), William Irwin (thirty seven runs not out) and George Magnus (twenty runs).

The tourists ended on 211 runs after the forty overs were bowled falling short by thirty runs. Mike Caruana and Sarfraz Ali were the pick of the Marsa Bowlers with two wickets a piece.

Marsa go one up in the series.

The two games are going to be played on Wednesday and Thursday at 10:30am.