Saturday’s second round of the CRIC HQ MCA Cricket Summer league came to a thrilling end, and it was again involving the Marsa CC, but this time against Krishna CC.
The Marsa team, after being rattled the previous week by the Marauders, needed to respond and both teams were at full strength which made the game more enjoyable.
The Marsa team batted first, Malcolm Crabbe opened the innings and did pretty well scoring twenty four runs which included a couple of boundaries. Bikram Arora sent out his intentions smashing a six of the sixth ball he faced, but six balls later he was caught of the bowling of Suhrid Roy (one of the juniors with plenty of potential) for fourteen runs.
This game also had the return of John Callus who played a decent innings, retiring after thirty balls and making thirty four runs which included two boundaries. Matthew White took off where he left off from the previous week and made twenty seven runs from twenty balls, which included two fours and plenty of running.
Andrew Naudi chipped in with sixteen runs towards the end of the innings. The Marsa team with extras totalled 144 runs.
For Krishna, Kevin Krishna took two wickets while Frank Spiteri and Nowell Khosla were the other wicket takers.
The Krishna team batted with determination with the master blaster Haroon Majeed back to his best, hitting fifty runs from the thirty balls faced, including two sixes and two fours. Nowell Khosla hit thirty five runs, which included four boundaries, Joy Ghoseroy fifteen runs not out and Sid Anand twelve runs.
The game came to a crunch with Krishna needing four runs to win off the last ball of the innings. Ghoseroy could only manage two. The penultimate over was a crucial one, with Andrew Naudi bowling out of his skin taking two wickets and only giving one run. Naudi ended taking three wickets while Bikram Arora took four.
From the win Marsa earned fourteen points and are leading with forty one points, while Krishna earned two points and have a total of thirty points. Marauders have fourteen points.
Next Saturday sees the full and final third round being played with three games scheduled, Marsa v Krishna, Marsa v Marauders and Krishna v Marauders.
Photograph of John Callus