On Saturday The Captain’s select team took on the Chairman’s select team in a friendly 20/20 game of cricket, being warm up games for the upcoming Winter League.

The Captain’s team won the toss and elected to bat. Ronnie Sacco and Mike O’Meara opened the batting. O’Meara was first out being bowled by a hum dinger of a delivery from Ali Malik.O’Meara managed five runs before being bowled including a boundary. Sacco was next to go.

He was scoring freely and had already scored four fours when he tried to hit a six and was well caught by Nowell Khosla on the boundary. Mike Caruana also started off well and was caught by Mark G.Sacco who had to run a couple of metres to take the catch.

Caruana made 18 runs including two fours.

Faraaz soon followed being L.B.W for three runs. Javed Shah toped scored with 53 runs including seven fours. Sam Aquilina scored two fours in his knock of 24 runs. The Captains team totalled 147 runs from their allotted overs. For The Chairman’s team Ali Malik and Rizwan Malik both took two wickets each.

A tremendous opening partnership from Nowell Khosla and Mark G.Sacco wrapped up the game. They totalled 112 runs partnership, Khosla scoring 74 runs including five fours while Sacco scored 35 runs including two fours. Ali Malik scored 21 runs not out, Adrian made eight runs and Rizwan Malik scored six runs not out.

Next Saturday the second friendly will take place starting at 12.30pm. In the morning the nursery/academy will be from 9.30 till 11.30am.