Over the weekend, English team Linklaters CC, on their first tour to Malta, played the Marsa CC in a two game series.

On Saturday, a thirty over game was played, the Marsa team totalled 146 runs aided heavily by extras, forty three of them and thirty seven of them were wides, its tough bowling in a new country for a first time.

John Grima opened the Marsa innings and top scored with the bat making thirty nine runs which included five boundaries. Frank Spiteri was making his presence felt with twenty runs which included four boundaries before being caught.

Mark G.Sacco. who has been in good form recently, made eighteen runs. For Linklaters Dimitri Fomink took three wickets, T. Whittle took two, while E. Llewellyn and H. McAvaney took a wicket each.

However, if their bowling was affected by coming overseas, their batting was not, Linklaters made easy work of the run chase making the runs in the nineteenth over.

The assault was lead by A. Patel who retired after making sixty runs which included nine fours. T. Raper made twenty four runs, A. Ahmed made twenty nine and J. Zipfinger made twelve runs. There were twenty three extras from the home side all wides… Linklaters take a series lead of one nil.

On Sunday due to a late start the game was shortened to a twenty over game. This time the visitors batted first.

The Marsa opening bowlers bowled extremely well (Andrew Naudi and Haroon Majeed) and took two wickets each and put Linklaters on the back foot. T. Whittle was a saviour scoring forty five patient runs as was L. Wood who made twenty. N. Dhokia was not to be outdone batting at number eleven, he smashed his way to a quick twenty seven runs which include two sixes and two fours.

The final score was 130 runs. Young Suhrid Roy from the Marsa team took three wickets, while Bikram Arora and Haroon Majeed took a wicket each.

With the batting line up the home team was confident. Five batsmen – Joy Ghoseroy thirteen runs, Haroon Majeed ten runs, Bikram Arora twelve runs, Suhbas Roy twenty eight runs not out and Mike Caruana twenty six runs not out, all had starts but did not get the job done and this time there was only fifteen extras.

For Linklaters E. Llewellyn took three wickets while T. Raper took one. Liklaters whitewash Marsa.

Next Saturday sees another new team, Pontefract New College who will be playing a two game series, the second game will be played the following Saturday.

On Saturday the Sunoco Academy/nursery will be from 9.00am till 10.30am.

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