Marsa C.C. host Ampthill C.C.

On Saturday the Marsa C.C played against returning team Ampthill C.C who are on there third trip.

Ampthill  won the toss and elected to bat first. After a poor start losing both openers to the bowling of Bikram Arora, D.Thompson (fifty four runs) and R.Haxell (forty runs) guided their team to wards the 177 run total.

They put on a partnership of seventy one runs. N.Lewin (eleven runs),R.Hardy (ten runs) and N.Key (thirteen runs) all had starts but were unable to go on and make big scores. For Marsa Ronnie Sacco was the pick of the bowlers taking four wickets. Gordon Hewitt also took two wickets.

The run chase by the Marsa team ended in misery only totalling 111 runs. Seven batsmen had starts, Nowell Khosla (fourteen runs), Tim Wheeler (twelve runs), Malcolm Crabbe (eighteen runs), Javed Shah (eleven runs), Tony Azzopardi twelve runs) , Ronnie Sacco (seventeen runs) and Andy Lenard (ten runs), but none were able to go on and make a big score.

One must not take away the brilliant bowling from J.Marsh who took five wickets for eleven runs from eight overs bowled, very impressive. S.Baxter and A.Passman chipped in with a couple wickets each. Ampthill C.C win the game.

The previous Thursday the first game was played. This time Marsa C.C batted first in the twenty over contest.  The home team totalled a brilliant score of 150 runs. Malcolm Crabbe top scored with thirty three runs, Mike Caruana made thirty two runs not out, Javed Shah twenty six runs and Nowell Khosla nineteen runs. Fot the visitors A.Passnan was the main wicket taker with two.

In reply R. Haxell  took his team into a great position when he made sixty one runs of forty four balls, this included nine fours and a six. Once his wicket was taken the home side were able to control the game and kept the visitors to 121 runs. For Marsa , Sarfraz Ali was the main wicket taker with three while Ronnie Sacco took two. The series was tied.

Next week sees the return of Milan C.C who will be on their fifth tour to Malta. So far eight games have been played between the two sides, the home team have only lost once. This will be as three game series starting on Friday.