On Saturday Marsa C.C played Overseas C.C in the Winter League.

Overseas won the toss and elected to bowl first. Overseas were looking to win seeing that Marsa were missing a couple of players.

The Sacco brothers Mark and Ronnie opened the batting. Mike Smith opening the bowling bowled well, runs hard to come by for the Marsa batsmen. Sunny Krishna an improving seam bowler was not on the spot having 43 runs hit of his three overs mostly of wides where he could not control the swing of the new ball.

Ronnie Sacco was the first wicket to fall for 11 runs. Mark was to keep batting to the end of the innings scoring a patient 51 runs to keep Marsa in the game. Robert Krishna scored six runs and Alan Swift seven. Javed Shah chipped in with 23 runs.

For the second week running the Overseas gave away a lot of extras and helped Marsa total 183 runs. For Overseas an encouraging bowling performance from youngster Mike Jones had him take three wickets.

In reply Thomas Jones and Mike Smith had an opening stand of 40 runs before Jones was bowled for 14 runs. Smith was next to go when the score was on 95 runs. He was the first wicket of an amazing bowling stint from Mark Sacco who ended with the best bowling figures of five wickets for 26 runs from five overs.

His efforts definitively won Marsa the game. Stuart Thompson top scored for Overseas with 66 runs not out. Unfortunately for him his partners could not stay with him. Jonathon Tully scored 19 runs while Tony Slater scored 15 among the better scorers. Overseas were bowled out in the 17th over and only totalled 171 runs. Marsa won by 12 runs and earned nine points for the win while Overseas only managed one.

Next Saturday the nursery/academy will be from 9.30am till 11.30am and at 1200 an exhibition game will be taking place for people to come and watch and ask questions.