On Saturday the second game took place between the Chairman’s XI and the Captain’s XI.
The Chairman’s side batted first with Malcolm Crabbe and Joy Ghoseroy opening the batting in the 20 over game.
Ghoseroy was not there for long and was out on the first ball of the second over. Ronnie Sacco came in and in the following over was also walking back to the pavilion being caught by John Rusher.
In came Andy Lenard and with Crabbe steadied the ship and put on a 61 run partnership. Lenard was bowled. He made thirty runs from 33 balls faced including two fours. Crabbe’s long innings fell shortly after that of Lenard’s.
Crabbe made 32 runs from 40 balls. The batting tempo picked up with Darren Grech hitting 21 runs from 22 balls with Justin Brooke hitting 19 runs from 15 balls. Sam Aquilina managed four runs of two balls.
For the Captain’s side Dave Borg was the main wicket taker with two while Mike Caruana and Derek Ali took a wicket each.
The Chairman’s team totalled 115 runs.
The Captain’s team reply was just plain miserable and were all out for 63 runs which included 15 extras. Bikram Arora was the only batsmen who made it past double figures. He made 19 runs.
For the second week running he was caught by Justin Brooke and, believe it or not, another classic catch having Brooke running backwards and flinging his whole body back to take an incredible catch.
For the Chairman’s team, Andy Lenard, Ronnie Sacco, Kevin Krishna and Joy Ghoseroy all took two wickets each while Darren Grech took one. With this win the series is levelled at one apiece.
Colts’ match
In the morning a game between the Marsa Colts and the Krishna Colts was played. The Krishna team batted first and totalled 60 runs from their 10 overs with Edward Heasman top scoring with 18 runs and Daniel Galea making 14.
Adam Caruana was the only wicket taker for the Marsa team. In reply, the Marsa team were able to make the runs through Andrea Caruan (17), Freddie May (16) and Catherine Heasman (13) as the main run scorers. Kathleen Bulteel was the only wicket taker for the Krishna team.
Next Saturday the same proceedings are scheduled.