Over the weekend the Marsa C.C took on the Steamboat Willies C.C from England.
On Saturday the visitors won the toss and batted first in the 40 over encounter. They lost an early wicket in Jason Kleeman, after that they started to steady through Mart Tannosa (nine runs) and then started to over power the Marsa bowling with Tim Heath (35 runs), Max Murray (38 runs) and Dave McCairnay (34 runs).
Once these batsmen were out, the Marsa bowlers were able to control the batting and eventually bowled the visitors out for 163 runs.
For Marsa, Ronnie Sacco was the main wicket taker with three. Derek Ali, Mike Caruana and Kevin Krishna all took two wickets each while Gordon Hewitt took one.
In reply, the Marsa team thought they had the game all sown up with Bikram Arora flaying the bowling. He was judged LBW after making 37 runs which included four fours.
Suddenly the game came to a balance with the home team struggling at seven wickets down for 107 runs with 16 overs to go.
Derek Ali and Mike Caruana were at the crease and were determined not to lose. They put on a partnership of 54 runs before Ali (48 runs, which included four fours and a six) was caught, which brought in Ronnie Sacco who scored the remaining three runs required with ease.
For the visitors, Kumaran Sivapathasuntharam was the main wicket taker with three, Nick Walker took two while Stuart Head, Scott Rocket and Max Murray took a wicket each. Marsa win the first game.
On Sunday, the Marsa team batted first and in the very first over were on the back foot after having Nowell Khosla run out without scoring.
The Marsa team still managed to score 113 runs from their 20 overs with Dave Borg top scoring with 34 runs, Frank Spiteri 27 runs and Robert Krishna 16 runs. Scott Rocket was the main wicket taker with two.
In reply, the Steamboat Willies went full speed ahead and racked up the runs in the 15th over. Tim Heath scored 50 runs from 38 balls which included seven fours and a six. Chris Grover scored 32 and Thompson 19 runs in the win.
The visitors squared the series.
This weekend the Marsa C.C take on new touring team Ash Tree C.C in a two game series.
On Saturday the Sunoco cricket academy/nursery will be from 9am to 10.30am.