The Cricket Summer league commenced on Saturday.

This year five teams will be competing, that is, Marsa C.C, Krishna C.C, Melita Betfair C.C, Overseas C.C and newcomers POP Mellieha C.C.

Marsa took on Krishna in the opening game.

Batting first, Tony Azzopardi and Sarfraz Ali opened the innings. Ali (four runs) was first to go being bowled by Nowell Khosla who bowled a very good two over spell. Azzopardi went on to make eight runs before being caught by Kevin Krishna after absolutely smashing the ball from the middle of the bat.

George Agius made seven runs until trying to guide the ball to third man managed to get a fine nick and was caught behind. Sunny Krishna and Simon Lavendar both made 21 runs.

Krishna was caught by Kevin Krishna (second catch) while Lavendar retired after facing 30 balls (local rule). Justin Farrin Thorne became Kevin Krishna’s third catch of the day, after scoring 12 runs.

Sam Aquilina was caught after making two runs. Ronnie Sacco and Tony Slater batted the remaining overs out making valuable runs for their team. Sacco impressed hitting 27 runs from 17 balls which included a six and a four. Slater scored 12 runs off ten balls.

Ian Pendlebury was the most successful bowler for Krishna taking three wickets while Joy Ghoseroy was the other wicket taker, two wickets.

Aided with 17 extras, the Marsa team totalled 131 runs.

In reply, the Krishna team were in deep trouble losing early wickets, Andrew Mitchell (five runs), Joy Ghoseroy (two runs) and Greg Symons (no runs). Sumair Khan (17) and Dhruv Duggal (25) brought their team back into contention, Duggal hitting a massive six and two fours along the way.

Robert Krishna made 12 runs and three batsmen made one run between them. Nowell Khosla, who was at the other end witnessing all of the goings on, tried hard to have his team closer to their target scoring 37 runs from 30 balls which included three fours.

Thomas Rusher did well giving Khosla the strike and managed to make a single himself.

Gordon Hewitt was the pick of the Marsa bowlers taking three wickets and was also in the chance of a hat trick.

John Farrugia and Tony Azzopardi both took two wickets each and Ronnie Sacco took one.

The Marsa team earned eight points from the win while Krishna had to contend with one.

This weekend the Marsa C.C take on new touring team, Wales O 50’s in a two game series. Tomorrow the Sunoco Cricket academy/nursery will be from 9am till 10.30am.