Marsa break their duck in league

The 20-over Winter League continued on Saturday with Marsa still looking to chalk up their first win of the competition in the match against leaders Krishna.

Marsa batted first but lost three early wickets – Sumair Khan, Sunny Krishna and Robert Krishna. Between them, they had only managed seven runs. Daniel Galea took two of these wickets.

Tony Azzopardi and Javed Shah rescued their team, scoring 18 and 29 runs respectively, both hitting a couple of fours along the way.

Derek Ali added 13 before he and Malcolm Crabbe were out in consecutive balls from Ronnie Sacco.

Sam Aquilina (13) and Mike Caruana (17 from 13 balls) took their side to 124 runs from the allotted overs. For Krishna, Kevin Krishna and Nowell Khosla also picked up a wicket each.

Krishna also had a bad start at the crease, losing three of their top order for nine runs.

Nowell Khosla, the pick of the batsmen, was doing extremely well. In fact, he had scored 36 runs from 24 balls when he was bowled by Crabbe.

Sacco was going along at a-run-a-ball rate until he was caught on 28 runs.

His departure opened up the tailend of the Krishna batting and only Ian Pendelbury (13) and Kevin Krishna (eight) showed any resistance.

Krishna totalled 105 runs and Marsa were finally able to celebrate their first league win.

Sarfraz Ali and Crabbe took three wickets each for the winners as Aquilina, who was wicket-keeping, managed three stumpings and a catch.

Marsa earned eight points for their victory while Krishna only had one point to show at the end of the match.

Melita are second in the standings. Next Saturday, they play Marsa in another league match.