On Saturday the Marsa C.C played the second game against Ampthill Town C.C who are on their fourth tour to Malta.
The Marsa team batted first in the 40 over game. Frank Spiteri and Sunny Krishna opened the innings and put on a fifty three run partnership before Spiteri was caught. He had done most of the scoring making 35 runs which included five fours and a six. Krishna went on to make 34 runs which included three fours.
Malcolm Crabbe played the innings of the day and top scored with 55 runs which included six fours. Derek Ali (24 runs) and Nowell Khosla (28 runs) were the other main run makers.
The Marsa team totalled a reasonable score of 205 runs. For Ampthill, Richard Blunt and Colin Ruddick took two wickets each while, Justin Brooke, Andy Parsman and Richard Hardy all took a wicket each.
The Ampthill reply was a slow and steady reply with the opening batsmen setting up the chase while keeping wickets in hand for the big bang towards the end.
Nigel Lewin scored 37 runs, Nick Key 45 runs (top scoring for his team).
The visitors then kept losing wickets with Lee Archer scoring 16 runs, Richard Hardy 27 runs, Richard Blunt and John Marsh ten runs apiece.
Four other batsmen made under ten runs and the Ampthill chase ended at 183 runs. The Marsa bowlers stuck to their task with Bikram Arora taking four wickets, Nowell Khosla three wickets and Ronnie Sacco two.
The Thursday game was a 20over game with the visitors batting first and totalling 108 runs with Nigel Lewin top scoring with 25 runs, Nick Key 21 runs and Richard Hardy 18 runs.
For Marsa Andy Naudi and Nowell Khosla took two wickets each while Gordon Hewitt, Kevin Krishna and Joy Ghoseroy took a wicket each. The Marsa team chased down the runs in the 19th over.
Andy Naudi top scored with 43 runs, while Sumair Khan (18), Joy Ghoseroy (17) and John Grima (16) all chipped in.
For Ampthill John Marsh bewildered the top order batsmen and took three wickets for eight runs from his four overs.
Marsa whitewashed Ampthill.
Next weekend the Marsa team play newcomers from England Pribright C.C in a two game series.
On Saturday morning the Sunoco cricket academy/nursery will be from 9am till 10.30am.