Mixed fortunes for Marsa

Last Tuesday, Marsa played their fourth game against Bradstad and Sundridge. The hosts elected to bat first and Gordon Hewitt opened with a 36, including a big six over the square leg boundary.

Tim Wheeler batted extremely well for his 72 runs and another fine innings came from Alan Kyle. He scored 50 off 40 balls with one six.

Aided with 35 extras, Marsa totalled 236 runs. For the visitors, T. Ervine took three wickets.

Bradstad and Sundridge started their run chase with opener Vinnie Reynolds hitting 53 and M.Toms 46.

N. Hubbard scored 33 and D. Holden 29 not out but Bradstad and Sundridge fell short by 23 runs.

For Marsa, Michael Caruana was the pick of the bowlers taking two wickets. Marsa won the game and the series four-nil.

On Saturday, Marsa played against Krishna in the first game of the 25-over Winter League.

M.G. Sacco opened the batting for Krishna. He made 52 runs and retired (local rule for competition).

Angelo Spiteri also retired with 50 runs. Mike Smith batted on for 22 as Marsa's bowling became wayward and gave away 39 extras. Krishna finished with a tally of 192 runs.

Marsa tried hard to match that total and were doing well with openers Mike Caruana and Jaya Krishna taking it to the bowlers.

But then, Jaya Krishna was caught in the deep by Mike Smith off the bowling of Sagar Krishna.

Caruana went on to retire on 51 runs. Ronnie Sacco had 26 as Marsa could only manage 130. Krishna won the match and earned nine points. Marsa had to settle for only one.

Next Saturday the two teams will battle it out again at 12.30 p.m.