On Saturday the MCA Winter League continued with Marsa C.C playing Krishna C.C. Krishna won the toss and elected to bowl first. Ronnie Sacco and Dave Borg opened the batting for the Marsa team. Borg was first to go being caught and bowled by Khosla making six runs including a four. Sacco found it hard to score runs and tried to force the play by dancing down the wicket to hit the ball over the fence, unfortunately the ball did not bounce as was expected and was bowled giving Kevin Krishna his first wicket. Sacco scored eleven runs.

Krishna was also involved in the next wicket, that of Javed Shah (no runs), taking a catch at backward point of the bowling of Adam Krishna. Mike Caruana and Chris Naudi both batted well and both retired and both managed to get back in to bat. Caruana finished with thirty one runs not out including three fours, while Naudi ended up being the last wicket to fall. He made twenty four runs from twenty five balls. John Farrugia made six runs, Sarfraz Ali made two runs, Darren Grech seven runs and Ben Hayes no runs. The Marsa team totalled 101 runs. Kevin Krishna, Adam Krishna and Nowell Khosla were the main wicket takers for the Krishna team with two a piece.

The Marsa team were eager to have a win and David Borg and Ronnie Sacco provided an excellent opening spell of twelve overs which conceded twenty nine runs and Sacco taken three wickets and Borg one. Nowell Khosla and Sam Aquilina opened the batting for the Krishna team. Khosla was first to go being caught. He made eleven runs. Aquilina made seven runs before being caught. Faraaz Bhatti made one run before being bowled. Derek Ali found it hard to make runs and was out on the twenty fourth ball of his innings for five runs. John Grima retired making nineteen runs. Robert Krishna made sixteen runs before being bowled. Adam Krishna (five runs) and Kevin Krishna (no runs) remained not out. Krishna totalled 73 runs giving the Marsa team their first win which earned them seven points and Krishna earned two points.

In the morning the Marsa Colts and Krishna Colts game could not be played due to the rain.

Next Saturday the Marsa team take on Melita Betfair C.C at 10.00am, while the Colts game will be from 9:15 till 10:00am.

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