Over the weekend Marsa C.C played against the first touring side of the year, Staffordshire University C.C.

On Saturday the University batted first after a delayed start due to the rain. Two early wickets swung the game in favour of the home team. N.Pryce and M.Hale played well with Pryce top scoring for his team with 77 runs. Hale was second best scorer with 23 runs. The only other batsman that made it into double figures was M.Sibart with 13 runs. The University after their allotted overs totalled 190 runs. For Marsa six bowlers all took a wicket each.

The Marsa batting was not at its best only three batsmen made it into double figures, Sam Dhandapani (29 runs), Ronnie Sacco (13 runs) and Sagar Krishna (11 runs). Marsa only managed 113 runs and lost by 77 runs. For the visitors four bowlers, M.Kelly, M.Kimboz, M.Sibart and R.Gillard all took two wickets each.

On Sunday the University won the toss and elected to bowl first. M.Reid took two early wickets which had the home side struggling at 17 runs. M.G Sacco and M.Caruana met at the crease and put on much needed partnership of 84 runs.

Sacco was eventually bowled for 32 runs. Caruana managed to top score for the home side with 84 runs including 11 fours. Javed Shah made an entertaining 48 runs including five fours and two sixes. Marsa totalled 254 runs from their 50 overs. For the University J.Tabord took four wickets and M.Reid took three.

Staffordshire had a good start until Ronnie Sacco ran out G.Curtis with a direct hit. T.Evans top scored with 39 runs. From there on the University struggled with the run rate. Dave Newton devastated the middle order taking four wickets, Marsa best bowler. Only M.Reid showed resistance making 17 runs. In all the visitors totalled 133 and lost by 121 runs. The series was drawn at one each.

Next Saturday the nursery will take place from 9.30am till 11.30am.