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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2015 Sport 23 Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Partly cloudy VISIBILITY: Good WIND: North Northwest force 3 SWELL: Low Easterly becoming negligible Sea Temp.: 25 °C A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 White to play and mate in four moves A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Last week's solution Sudoku rules are extremely easy: Fill all empty squares so that the numbers 1 to 9 appear once in each row, column and 9x9 box. PARTLY CLOUDY 24 º C / 14 º C UV INDEX: 4 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits Across 1. Morning meal 8. Later 9. Liverpool airport 10. Knapsack 12. Bloodsucking insect 14. Leave out 15. Sterile 17. Vision 18. Cut 20. Institution for orphans Down 2. Decay 3. Antenna 4. Clenched hand 5. Person who spells words 6. Horse used for carrying loads 7. Remaining part 11. Part of a gun 13. High-kicking dance 16. Engrave with acid 19. Worthless piece of cloth Rxg6+ Ke7 Qf6+ Kf8 Nf5 d5 Qe7# Nf5 d5 Qxf7# ... Ke8 Rg8# CRICKET Marsa win hard fought series with London Nigerians FRANK SPITERI IN the latest cricket matches at the Marsa Oval, the Marsa Rep- resentative team hosted the Lon- don Nigerians Cricket Club from UK. It was the visitors' first visit to Malta and although they went home without a win, they played their part in an entertaining week- end of cricket. In Friday's T20 match, Marsa batted first and scored their 3rd highest T20 score of the season; 176 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. National team captain, Nowell Khosla hit 5 boundaries in his 33 runs, while Bikram Arora (59) and Haroon Majeed (38) shared in a 74 run partnership which included 6 sixes. David Marks also chipped in towards the end of the innings with 15 runs off only 10 balls. For the London Nigerians, all 6 bowl- ers took a wicket however Sam Ayinde was the pick of the bowlers with his 4 overs conceding only 17 runs. In reply, LNCC lost their open- ing batsmen Gabbay and Etteh within the 6 over Powerplay. Ade Ojomo (36) and Clifford Edebiri (23) resurrected the innings, how- ever wickets at regular intervals put pay to the visitors' chances. Sam Ayinde backed up his bowl- ing performance scoring 16 runs but the LNCC could only manage 153 for 8, to hand Marsa victory by 23 runs. For Marsa, Feroz Ahmed captured 3 wickets for 19, while Amar Gorania and the junior academy's Ethan Xuereb took two wickets apiece. Saturday's 30 over match began with Marsa batting first. John Gri- ma (19), Malcolm Crabbe (27) and Bikram Arora (31) made signifi- cant contributions, while Sumair Khan played a superb knock of 38 to steer Marsa to the final tally of 172 for 7. Michael Gabbay (2 for 22) and Segan Bucknor (2 for 15) were the pick of the bowlers for LNCC. In reply, the visitors started cau- tiously with openers Gabby and Ojomo putting on 40 for the first wicket. A triple-strike by Amar Gorania swung the game in Mar- sa's favour until the prized wicket of Michael Gabbay (55) sealed the visitors' fate. Roland Illube (20) and Segun Bucknor (26) provided some late resistance but they were left with too much to do in the last few overs. Player of the Match, Sumair Khan took 3 wickets for 16 and wicket-keeper John Grima contin- ued his fine form to take 2 catches and a stumping. The LNCC were dismissed for 153 in the final over, giving Marsa the series victory by 2 matches to nil. London Nigerians Cricket Club