On Friday and Saturday, Marsa took on North London side Crouch End who were playing their first series in Malta.

On the opening day, the hosts batted first in the twenty over encounter. A great opening partnership of 50 runs from John Callus (27) and Chris Naudi (26) helped set the innings.

Frank Spiteri was on fire, smashing 40 runs from 19 balls which included eight boundaries.

Sam Aquilina chipped in with 18 runs and Tim Wheeler made 14 from a reasonable total of 145 runs. For Crouch End, Jack Goldberg, Mike Barely and Adam O’Shea all took a wicket.

Goldberg played an amazing innings of 52 runs not out, which included six fours and a six. His innings almost had his team over the line but, when the overs were up, they were still six runs short.

James Down and O’Shea both made 13 runs and there were 21 extras. Fine bowling from Paul Bradley had him earn four wickets, John Callus took two while Kevin Krishna, Ravi Sharma and Joy Ghoseroy took a wicket each.

Marsa went one up in the series.

On Saturday, in a forty-over game, Crouch End batted first.

Parker, who made a few runs the previous day, opened the innings and played a superb knock, making 68 runs which included seven boundaries.

Olly Greally, who also missed out on the previous day, made a gritty 38 runs while Root compiled 28 from a fair total of 185 runs... they were bowled out in the 39th over.

For Marsa, Jaisel and Tony Azzopardi took two wickets each while Ramadeep Singh, Sarfraz Ali, Ronnie Sacco and Paul Bradley claimed one.

The Marsa team would normally be happy when chasing 185 runs and, by the 29th over, they had 173 runs on the board. This was the case, the only problem was that they were bowled out.

Sumair Khan batted well, top scoring with 40 runs which included five boundaries. Nowell Khosla made 22 and Singh 17.

Extras were at 28. The Marsa team lost by 12 runs.

For Crouch End, a great bowling spell from Goldberg had him take five wickets. Josh Innes and David Wyn Bennis picked two each while Ali took one. Crouch End thus managed to draw the series.

On Friday, the Marsa team play CMS in a twenty-over game while over the weekend they take on Eton Ramblers in a two-game series.

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