The 40 over Winter league game between Melita Betfair C.C and Krishna C.C brought the championship to a close on Saturday. The game was shortened to 20 overs.

The Melita team won the toss and elected to bat first. Johhny Grima and Ronnie Sacco opened the innings. After five dot balls, Grima opened up and smashed three boundaries but was finally caught by Dave Borg of the bowling of Bikram Arora. Grima made 19 runs from 17 balls.

Dave Borg was in action again for the fall of Sacco’s wicket: this time he was the bowler. Sacco was caught by Andy Lenard after scoring 15 runs which included two fours.

Amit, batting at number three, was going along steadily until there was a mix up and he ended up run out, he made 13 runs. Tony Azzopardi livened up the innings scoring 14 runs off six balls which included three fours. Unfortunately as he was trying for his fourth four he missed and was bowled by Chandika.

Sunny Krishna followed in Azzopardi’s footsteps scoring 22 runs from 15 balls before being caught by Marlon of the bowling of Tony Slater.

Ian Pendelbury was in and out quite quickly and did not bother the scorers. He was caught by Malcolm Crabbe off the bowling of Prasad Abeysinghe.

Sarfraz Ali and Mike Caruana remained not out scoring 19 runs and 11 runs respectively.

The Krishna team used eight bowlers and Prasad was the only one who bowled a maiden. The Melita team scored 129 runs aided with 16 extras.

The Krishna reply started off with a bang with Dave Borg and Marlon taking on the bowlers and putting up a half century partnership before Marlon was bowled by Gordon Hewitt.

Marlon scored 22 runs, Borg went on to make 34 runs which included a six and three fours, he was bowled by Ronnie Sacco.

Malcolm Crabbe followed up their good work and top scored with 35 runs and eventually holed out to Ronnie Sacco off the bowling of Sunny Krishna.

John Rusher played one of his best innings where he defied bowlers and scored 16 runs which included a boundary. He was bowled on the last ball of the innings by Daniel Galea.

Bikram Arora, after an absence from the game, and then Robert Krishna, both did not make any runs, one was caught by Amit and the other by John Grima, the bowlers were Sunny Krishna, who was the only double wicket taker for the day, and Mike Caruana. Prasad Abesinghe remained unbeaten on ten runs. The Krishna team aided with six extras totalled 123 runs, losing by six runs.

Tomorrow the second game against M/Y Aviva will take place. In the morning the Sunoco cricket Academy/nursery will be from 9am till 10.30am.