On Saturday the Cricket Summer league division one continued with the Marsa C.C taking on Overseas C.C.

The Overseas won the toss and elected to bat. Phil Gibbs and Roger Bradley opened the batting. Bradley was Malcolm Crabbe’s first wicket of three. Bradley made eight runs from 14 balls faced. Bradley’s runs came from two boundaries. Gibbs played a solid innings and faced his 30 balls and retired making 15 runs. He later returned and faced a further 11 balls and scored nine more runs. He also remained not out.

Allan McKay batted well and scored ten runs. Justin Barloggio chipped in with four runs before his team was bowled out. With nine extras the Overseas ended up with a total of 68 runs. Justin Thorne was also a wicket taker for the Marsa side with two.

For Marsa the father and son combination of the Rushers opened the batting. Tom was first to go being caught brilliantly by the sub fielder after facing four balls. John lasted 19 balls before he two was caught brilliantly for three runs.

Malcolm Crabbe smashed 14 runs from ten balls before being caught which included three fours. Mark G.Sacco (19 runs not out) and Justin Thorne (23 runs not out) made sure of the win. For the Overseas team Alex Goddard, Roger Bradley and Brian Dalton were the only wicket takers with a wicket each.

With the win the Marsa team have leapt to top position with 32 points. Melita C.C are second with 31 points, Krishna C.C third with 12 points and Overseas C.C fourth with three points.

Next weekend the Marsa team take on returning touring team Chelsea Arts Club C.C who last toured in October 2004 in which the Marsa team won the series two to nil.

Both games start at 10.30am.

Saturday also sees the start of the Cricket Academy/nursery from 9am till 10.30am. More information [email protected]