Bradstad and Sundridge no match for Marsa

Bradstad and Sundridge, a club from just outside London, were outplayed by Marsa over three games last week.

On Thursday, the hosts batted first and scored 261 runs from 45 overs.

Michael Caruana held the innings with a 105 off 93 balls. That included 18 4s. Sarfraz Ali batted well to make 46 and Tim Wheeler hit 18 runs. Jason Muscat made 17. There were also 59 extras which did not help the tourists at all. D. Holden was the pick of the bowlers. He took two wickets for 25 runs. Had the tourists held on to their catches they could have saved themselves over a 100 runs.

Bradstad and Sundridge's reply only produced 176 runs. C. Nash top-scored with 34 runs. For Marsa, Gordon Hewitt was the pick bowler taking three wickets for nine runs. Marsa won the first game.

On Saturday, the visitors batted first and after a reasonably good start, V. Renolds (21) and M. Toms (32), the rest of the batting order fell apart.

Only a late display from the Rutter brothers saved the innings - 157.

In reply, the Marsa batsmen made light work of the run chase. Mike Smith (33 runs), Sam Dhandapani (32) and top scorer Robert Krishna (60 not out) made the required runs by the 23rd over.

Toms was the only one who took wickets (three) for the visitors.

On Sunday, another century was made, this time by Ronnie Sacco. He scored a 95-ball 104 not out, including ten 4s. His brother Mark scored 31 and the other Mark Sacco made 36. They were among the main scorers in a total of 242 runs.

In a gallant effort to keep up with the run rate the English side lost early wickets which then left the lower order struggling. Toms batted well for 45 runs and M. Rutter 21.

They were bowled out for 121 runs as Marsa made a clean sweep of the week's three meetings.

The fourth and final game from the series will be played today at 10 a.m.