On Saturday Marsa C.C played Harrow School from the United Kingdom who were on there ninth tour in as many years.

Winning the toss the Harrow captain elected to bat first. D. Morrison and J. Scott opened the batting with a partnership of 121 runs.

Scott was the first to go being caught and bowled for 55 runs which included three fours. Morrison was soon to follow being adjudged l.b.w for 63 runs which included four fours.

Y. Sert scored 33 runs and W. Denehy scored 12 runs and were both out caught in similar fashion at short cover of the bowling of Joy Ghooseroy.

A. Poole was run out by a brilliant piece of fielding by Chris Naudi. Poole pushing for the second run had Naudi who was fielding deep in the mid wicket boundary run in pick up the ball and through straight over the stumps which left Poole stranded.

Sarfraz Ali came on to bowl and bewildered the batsmen taking three wickets that of H.Khayat (five runs), O.Bunting (18 runs) and that of J.Galbraitz (12 runs).

Frank Spiteri chipped in with two wickets that of M.Morgan (18 runs) and that of A. Stogden who was brilliantly caught by Mike Caruana who had to run a fair few meters before taking the catch with outstretched arms. Stogden scored seven runs. Harrow School was bowled out in the 50th over with five balls remaining. Harrow with the aid of extras totaled a reasonable 269 runs. Their main strength in the batting was the running between the wicket. They only scored a dozen fours in the whole of their innings.

Marsa’s reply was very slow and lost too many early wickets. After 20 overs, the Marsa team had only scored 58 runs and had already lost the wickets of Joy Ghoseroy (four runs), Mark G.Sacco (five runs), John Grima (run out without facing a ball) and Chris Naudi (16 runs).

Nadeem Ashraf was out in the 21st over without troubling the scorers. Frank Spiteri top scored for the home side with 38 runs, Javed Shah scored 14 runs, Mike Caruana 16 runs, Ronnie Sacco four runs and John Rusher did not trouble the scorers either. Sarfraz Ali remained the not out batsman with five runs.

The Marsa side were bowled out for a mere 122 runs. The main wicket takers for Harrow were W. Denehy with three, while H. Khayat and Y. Sert took two wickets a piece.

Next weekend Marsa C.C take on newcomers West XI in a two game series. Both games start at 10.30am.

The academy/nursery will be on Saturday from 9:30 till 11:30am.