Over the weekend, Marsa CC took on Staffordshire University who were here on their second tour in consecutive years.
The visitors won the toss and elected to bowl first. Sam Dhandapani and Joy Ghoseroy opened the batting but were out for 18 and 27 runs respectively. After that, only John Grima (25), Sagar Krishna (10) and Sarfraz Ali (11 not out) made it to double figures.
The Marsa side only managed 147 runs from their allotted overs. For Staffordshire, G. Singh was the pick of the bowlers, taking three wickets.
Staffordshire went on to score 137 runs in 24 overs before rain stopped play. Singh had opened the batting and scored 59 runs before being caught. N. Pryce also scored 59. The game was awarded to the visitors.
On Sunday, the scheduled 40-over one-dayer was changed to two 20-over games.
In the first, Marsa bowled first. Their bowlers were on fire with Andrew Naudi and Gordon Hewitt taking two wickets each while Ronnie Sacco blasted the lower order with an impressive five-wicket haul from five overs. The visitors were bowled out for a mere 44 runs.
In reply, Marsa only lost one wicket, that of Tim Edwards who had scored nine runs in an opening partnership of 40 with Sunny Krishna who remained unbeaten on 20 runs.
Nadeem Ashraf sealed the game for Marsa by hitting a huge six. M. Reid was the only wicket-taker for the University lads.
In the second game, Marsa elected to bat first. Again, they only lost one wicket, this time that of Javed Shah. He scored 42 runs from 35 balls faced and was involved in a 105-run partnership with Mike Caruana.
Caruana remained till the end, scoring 74 runs. Nadeem Ashraf hit 38 from 16 balls which included four 6s and two 4s. The Marsa team totalled 171 from their allotted overs. M. Richards was the wicket-taker for the visitors.
In reply, the opening Staffordshire bats put their team in a good position with R. Muaf scoring 44 runs and D. Leushab 30. Singh scored 17 runs but the visitors could only manage 117 from their allotted overs.
For Marsa, Nadeem Ashraf was the pick of the bowlers taking two wickets. Marsa won the series 2-0.
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