Another busy week for cricket and the Marsa C.C with two visiting teams, Old Lincolnians C.C (who were on their fifth tour) and newcomers Romany C.C. The two teams even had a game against each other.

On the Wednesday a 20-over game was played against the Old Lincolnians. The visitors batted first and scored a healthy 149 runs, M. Murray smashing his way to 68 runs not out which included seven fours and three sixes.

Josh Taylor made 22 runs while M. Jelly chipped in with 18. For the Marsa team Joy Ghoseroy was the main wicket taker with two. The home team could only muster up 120 runs and gave Old Lincolnians their first win.

On Friday Old Loncolnians were looking forward to keep their good run going against Romany C.C. but the latter ran out easy winners.

On Saturday the home team took on Romany and batted first. Romany bowled very well and held on to every and any catch, no matter how difficult.

The Marsa team were bowled out for 92 runs. John Grima batted well and top scored with 23 runs while Derek Ali scored 20.

David Brooke and Nick Hall both took three wickets while Rama Vasantham took two.

The visitors only lost one wicket before making their target, that of Gary Martin who made 54 runs which included five fours and a six. He was well assisted by Phillip Slocomb who made 32 runs. Romany won the game and remained unbeaten in Malta.

On Sunday the Marsa team played the second game against Old Lincolnians and batted first again. This time the batsmen turned up and put up a show. Nowell Khosla scored 40 runs, Andrew Mitchell 50 runs, Ronnie Sacco 60 and Bikram Arora 45 runs.

The Marsa team put up a great score of 248 runs. For the visitors Jordan Lucas and S. Dale took two wickets a piece.

The visitors through M. Jelly (40), M. Murray (31) and S. Dale (35) early in the innings and then C. Hurst (26) towards the end of the innings put up a great effort and pushed the local bowlers.

The Marsa bowlers held their nerve and bowled the visitors out for 191. Bikram Arora bowled well and took four wickets which left the batsmen’s heads spinning while Joy Ghoseroy took three wickets.

Marsa squared the series one all.

Next Saturday the Chairman’s Panthers take on the Captain’s Sharks in the third game of the series.

The Sunoco Cricket Academy/Nursery will be from 9am till 10.30am.