On Saturday the MCA Cricket Winter league came to a close on Saturday with Marsa C.C taking on Melita C.C in what was a low scoring match, just as was the first game of the league.
The Marsa team batted first and thanks to the efforts of Joy Ghoseroy who powered his way to a great fifty runs before being caught. He hit five boundaries along the way. Frank Spiteri made twenty runs before being stumped by the swift John Grima of the bowling of Niraj Khanna. Khanna is a quick bowler. Tony Azzopardi had made a run a ball eight runs when he took on Khanna in a quick single and lost. Great pick up and throw by Khanna who had just bowled the ball. Paul Bradley stabilised the innings as best he could making seventeen runs not out but ran out of partners.
The Marsa team totalled a mere 128 runs. For Melita Khanna, Gordon Hewitt, Tim Wheeler and Chris Naudi were the wicket takers.
The Melita team cruised to victory with Andy Naudi demolishing the bowling making forty three runs from twenty one balls including six fours and a six. Naudi retired and his team stumbled, losing three wickets for three runs. John Grima (thirty two runs) showed his experience along with Chris Naudi (eighteen runs) and Khanna (thirteen runs) to take Melita to victory.
For Marsa, Will Nichols, Frank Spiteri, Tom Newell and Tony Azzopardi were the wicket takers.
The Melita team earned 14 points from the victory while Marsa earned one.
Final standing for the league – Krishna C.C 84 points, Melita C.C 59 points and Melita C.C 32 points.
Andy Naudi had a great tournament making the most runs (201) and taking the most wickets (8). Tony Azzopardi came in second in the runs making 153 while Kevin Krishna and Kamar Abbas (both Krishna C.C) took seven wickets each..
This coming weekend sees the Marsa C.C take on a new touring team Ploughman’s C.C from London in a three game series commencing on Friday.
On Saturday the Sunoco Cricket Academy will be from 9:00am till 10:30am. The Academy continues until mid June, so it’s not too late to join in the fun.