After Malta lost to Greece, things did not brighten up at the group stages.

The following day Malta lost badly to Spain and the only highlights were Ronnie Sacco who took three wickets and Andy Lenard two wickets.

On the Wednesday Malta had two games one against Austria and the other against Sweden. Again Malta faltered in the batting and lost both games. Andy Naudi took three wickets against Austria and Mike Caruana made 22 runs.

Against Sweden the only highlights were Andy Naudi and Mike Caruana taking two wickets apiece.

The fifth and final game of the group stage against Belgium was also a loss. In this Malta started to bring respect into the batting with Mike Caruana making 29 runs and John Grima 28.

After the group stage Malta ended bottom and now had to play Cyprus and Sweden in the play offs for ninth, tenth and 11th places.

Malta played Cyprus first and batted. The Malta batsmen finally made well deserved runs. Andy Naudi lead the charge with 60 from 51 balls. Ronnie Sacco made 22 runs from nine balls. Nowell Khosla chipped in with 19. The Malta team totalled a respectable score of 158 runs.

The Cyprus team put up a great fight but were bowled out in the 18th over for 119 runs, giving Malta their first win of the tournament. Mike Caruana took four wickets, Andy Naudi three wickets, Ronnie Sacco two wickets and Andy Lenard one.

Malta needed to beat Sweden to confirm ninth place.

Malta again batted first in a rain reduced game of 12 overs. Justin Brooke made 36 runs and Andy Naudi 17 from 13 balls in a total of 95 runs, Malta took early wickets and looked in command for most of the overs. The penultimate over brought the Sweden team needing seven runs to win at the last over.

Playing on a ground which had very short mid on boundary was going to be tough for any bowler. Andy Naudi took the challenge and bowled probably the best over in his international life. His first ball resulted in bowling the batsmen, the next two balls, a single for each. His fourth ball was a great catch by Sam Aquilina. His fifth ball, no run. With one ball remaining Sweden were still in the game. Naudi bowled and they could only manage a leg bye and Malta won by three runs.

Malta ended on a high note. Andy Naudi was top wicket taker of the tournament with 14; Mike Caruana was third with 12 and Ronnie Sacco fourth with 11 wickets. Mike Caruana was top of the catches by a fielder with seven. John Grima was fourth on the wicket keeping dismissals. Mike Caruana was also fourth on the most valuable player and Andy Naudi was eighth – there were 152 players in the tournament.