The first round of the Cricket Winter league came to end when the much anticipated game between Krishna C.C and Melita Betfair C.C was played on Saturday. Both teams had beaten the Marsa team in their encounters and both had nine points.

Melita Betfair batted first with Chris Naudi and Justin Farrin Thorne opening the batting. Naudi could not believe his eyes (and luck) when facing the first ball of the game he saw Ronnie Sacco drop his catch. Naudi went on to make eighteen runs before being bowled. Farrin Thorne had been bowled earlier for one run. Both were dismissed by Kevin Krishna. Frank Spiteri took off from where he left off last week and made another thirty two runs smashing five fours along the way. The only difference was that this week he was bowled. Dave Mansfield batted well and scored ten runs while he first partnered Spiteri, then Eamond Dolan (no runs), Mike Grima (one run) and Andy Naudi (twenty one runs) before being run out. Andy Naudi in his innings hit two boundaries. It was not a memorable innings for John Claffey playing in his first game, he was bowled on the first ball he faced. Tim Wheeler and Thomas Rusher batted through the last over scoring one run and no runs respectively. Aided with fifteen extras the Betfair team totalled 99 runs from their allotted overs.

Nowell Khosla and Ronnie Sacco also took two wickets each while Daniel Galea took his first wicket in the Winter league series.

The Krishna reply started off well enough with Nowell Khosla on seven runs and John Grima on three runs after one point two overs when the heavens above opened up and had all players scattering for cover in the pavilion. It rained hard for approx 15 minutes which was enough to water log the ground and the game had to be abandoned, even though the sun shone afterwards. The two teams were awarded three points each.

Next Saturday the second game of the forty over series takes place. The Sunoco Cricket academy/nursery will be from 9:00am till 10:30am.

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