Over the weekend the Marsa C.C played a two game series against newcomers Pribright C.C. It was to be a high scoring weekend for the home team.
On Saturday the Marsa team batted first and amassed one of their highest team scores since July of 2009. They scored 267 runs.
Dave Borg led the way with his first century ending with 103 runs. This was the first century against a touring team since May of 2010. He scored nine fours and three sixes along the way.
Sunny Krishna just managed to make 50 runs before getting bowled. Mike Caruana (39) and John Grima (21) were the other batsmen who contributed to the score. For Pirbright, R. Law took two wickets while D. Connery and R. Oakley took a wicket each.
As what happens when a team is chasing a high score, risks are taken and the visitors found themselves in deep water and ended up being bowled out for 98 runs.
D. Connery top scored with 18runs while S. Hailwood (16), H. Dennis (15) and S.Gray (13) were the main scorers.
For the home team Mike Caruana and Gordon Hewitt took three wickets a piece while Kevin Krishna and Sarfraz Ali took two wickets each.
On Sunday, Pribright were out to avenge the result of the previous day. Unfortunately the Marsa team batted first again and managed to amass another high score and over took the previous day’s score, scoring 285 runs.
This time Ronnie Sacco led the way scoring his second century since 2005. He scored a 100 runs which included ten fours and one six along the way.
Justin Brooke also played a great innings scoring 77 runs. Tim Wheeler scored 28 runs, Chris Riordan 35 and Sean Byrne 15 from the total. For the visitors S. Aldrich, R. Law and R. Oakley took a wicket each.
In reply, Pribright again went for the runs, taking plenty of risks and again were bowled out, this time for 122 runs. B. Flanegan top scored with 15 runs, J. Thompson 14 and S. Aldrich 13, were the main scorers.
For the Marsa team Sean Byrne, Tony Slater and Andy Naudi were the main wicket takers with two each. Marsa won the series two to nil.
Next Saturday sees the start of the Summer League. Marsa C.C play Krishna C.C. The Sunoco cricket academy/nursery will be from 9am till 10.30am.
Schools festival
Last Thursday the Malta Cricket Association held a schools cricket festival which included, Kirkop Boys Secondary, Poala Boys Secondary, Pembroke Girls Secondary and San Anton secondary.
The association thanked the Sport Promotion Unit, all the teachers and all those that helped, Adam Caruana, Malcolm Crabbe, Gordon P Hewitt, Mike Rawle, George Roberts, Johnnie Gee Grima, Ewan Perens and all the children who participated.
The Poala C team won the tournament with Pembroke Girls Secondary ending as the runners up.