Over the weekend Marsa C.C played against new touring team Ash Tree C.C in a two game series.
On Saturday the Marsa team batted first. Robert Krishna and Sumair Khan opened the innings. Khan was first to go after scoring one run. Krishna went on to make 27 runs. His son Sunny made 11 runs before getting a leading edge which lobbed high and straight back to the bowler who made a great effort to take the catch. Joy Ghoseroy scored 17 cautious runs before being caught.
At this stage, the home team were a 100 runs off 22 overs, and had lost five wickets. Bikram Arora made his presence felt and scored 51 runs from 43 balls faced which included two fours and three sixes. Derek Ali scored 39 runs and John Grima 25 runs from 24 balls.
The Ash Tree bowling was wayward and gave away 37 extras which helped the home team to a reasonable score of 208. For Ash Tree, M. Harfield, M. Finnerty, M. Russell, I, Robinson and C. Heathcote all took a wicket each.
The Ash Tree reply was going well with B. Spray scoring 30 runs, D. Waters 47, M. Russell 44 and M. Finnerty 17. Once they had lost their wickets, the others tumbled and were bowled out for 172 runs.
Gordon Hewitt was the main wicket taker with three. Joy Ghoseroy and Derek Ali took two wickets each while Bikram Arora and Sumair Khan took a wicket each.
Marsa win the first game.
On Sunday a 20-over game was played and the visitors batted first and were bowled out in the 18th over, totalling 82 runs. D. Waters was their highest scorer with 29 runs.
For the Marsa team, Ewan Perens, Chris Riorden and Simon Lavender were the main wicket takers with two apiece. It only took the Marsa team ten overs to make the runs.
Dhruv Duggal (27), Chris Riorden (25) and Ewan Perens (16) were the main run makers. The Marsa team win the series two to nil.
On Saturday the MCA Summer league continues with two games. 9.45am Krishna C.C v Melita C.C.; 2pm Overseas C.C v POP Mellieha.
The Sunoco cricket academy/nursery will be from 9am till 10.30pm
On Sunday, the Marsa C.C take on new team Penders C.C in a 20-over game.