Over the weekend the Marsa CC took on new touring team Emperor’s CC in a two game series.

On Saturday the home team won the toss and elected to bat, unfortunately for them they were bowled out for 153 runs in the twenty sixth over. Had it not been for the wayward bowling, which included forty three wides, the Marsa team would have been in very deep water.

Ronnie Sacco was a shining light with the bat, scoring thirty eight runs. Tony Azzopardi scored thirty runs and Ramadeep Singh seventeen runs.

For the Emperor’s Jay Umar took three wickets, Charles Andy took two, while Gary Calvocoressi, John Wilkes-Green, N. Waller and Joe Crame all took a wicket each. In reply the visitors smashed their way to victory and in nineteen overs.

Joe Crame opening for the innings was exceptional and unstoppable, with sixty seven runs not out which included five fours and two sixes. J. Wilke-Green batting at number five made thirty five runs from seventeen balls which included five fours and a six. A great effort from the visitors.

For Marsa Tony Azzopardi, Simon Lavendar and Sarfraz Ali took a wicket each. Emperor’s take a one nil lead in the series.

On Sunday the visitors won the toss and they elected to bat first after the great batting of the day before. As in the previous day the first batting team was bowled out, this time in the thirty fifth over.

The Emperor’s score was more formidable, that of 182 runs. Five of their batsmen had good starts, N. Waller (twenty five runs), A. Greenfield (twenty two runs), J. Wilkes-Green (thirty four runs), C. Bennet (twenty two not out) and D. Crame (forty runs), unfortunately none went on to greater scores.

For Marsa, the experience of Tony Slater had him take three wickets while junior Ali Hamza took two. Mike Caruana, Malcolm Crabbe and Sumair Khan took a wicket each.

All was now in the hands of the Marsa batsmen to make the runs and level the series. A fantastic opening stand of fifty four runs between Nowell Khosla (thirty five runs) and Bikram Arora (thirty runs) had the team of to a flyer.

Then a fourth wicket partnership of seventy seven runs from John Grima (forty seven runs not out) and Frank Spiteri (forty two runs) put the home team in a winning position.

Once Spiteri’s wicket fell the home team lost a further three wickets before Grima sealed the game with a boundary.

The Marsa team level the series. For the Emperor’s, J. Wilke-Green took four wickets while G. Calvocoressi and C. Bennet took a wicket each.

Next Friday and Saturday the Marsa team take on new touring team Crouchend CC.

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