Marsa CC has played against the first touring team from Tunisia, Carthage CC, in a two game series.

On Thursday the first game was in a twenty over format, the visitors batted first and made 111 runs. James Waters top scored of the bat with twenty three runs which include four boundaries, extras were the highest score with twenty five. Sixteen runs came off the blade of Arun, fifteen from John Phillips and Hemant chipped in with thirteen.

For the home side Sid Anand and Ravi Sharma took two wickets each while Tony Slater, Chris Naudi and Ian Pendelbury all took a wicket each.

From such a low score the local side almost pulled off a loss, only just making the runs with three balls to spare. Extras was second highest with twenty five while Niraj Khanna steadied the Marsa innings with thirty five runs. Frank Spiteri made fifteen and Pendelbury twelve.

For Carthage Sarat was the pick of the bowlers, taking three wickets, while Hwemant, Pradeep, Liam Waters and Sumesh took a wicket each. Marsa win the first game.

On Saturday Carthage batted first and put on a better batting exhibition in the forty over game. G. Bradley played a wonderful innings, top scoring with forty nine runs which included nine boundaries. Phillips was among the runs with thirty four, L. Waters made twenty seven not out, Sumesh twenty three and D. Wilson nineteen.

They were bowled out for 189 runs. For Marsa Andrew Naudi took four wickets, Sean Byrne took two, while Kevin Krishna, Bikram Arora, Ramandeep Singh and Sarfraz Ali all took a wicket each.

The Marsa team had a poor batting display with the Carthage bowlers bowling very well with three bowlers, Panraj, Hemant and Krishna taking three wickets each, G. Bradley took the other. Only Singh put up any resistance making thirty five runs not out.

Carthage win the game and square the series.

This was the sixteenth touring team for the year, and still eight more to come, starting September and one team in July. So far the Marsa team has played thirty six games winning seventeen and drawing one. Nowell Khosla is leading run scorer with 387 and Mike Caruana leading with 22 wickets.

Next Saturday will see the commencement of the Cric HQ MCA Cricket Summer League.

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