Over the weekend Marsa CC had two different adversaries to play, Harrow School, on their fifth tour to Malta, and first timers Radley College, both of England.

Harrow played on Saturday. The locals won the toss and elected to bat in the unusual 50-over game. F. Spiteri and J. Callus opened the innings with a partnership of 51 runs before Spiteri was caught.

The Harrow bowling was very steady and runs were hard to come by. A. Spiteri (21) and J. Grima (25 not out) were the main contributors after another steady innings from Callus who looked like making his second century but was bowled for 76.

Extras tallied 48 runs which left Marsa with a reasonable score of seven wickets for 230. For Harrow School M. Walters, M. Habib and H. Morrison took two wickets each.

Harrow opened with W. Spencer and Morrison. They scored the highest opening stand by a touring team against the locals so far - 231. That won them the game by ten wickets.

Spencer played a patient 60 not out, hitting only three 4s. The exciting innings was played by Morrison. He made 141 not out, hitting 11 4s and four towering 6s. Harrow School play Marsa CC again today.

On Sunday, Marsa had eight changes against Radley. Again, they batted first and had it not been for the reliable Spiteri, 82 runs, the 168 total, from 40 overs, would not have been so healthy.

Radley's batting was rather slow with only 58 runs of the first 20 overs bowled at a loss of two wickets. After that the tempo was raised by Darcy (19), Duffell (37 not out) and Cama (53 not out).

Radley soon reached their target of 169 to win the first game of a two-game series. The return will be on Thursday.

Next weekend sees newcomers Cryptics CC playing at Marsa.