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Welcome to the Marsa Cricket Club housed within the facilities of its parent Main Club, the Marsa Sports & Country Club. Situated in the Mediterranean, the Maltese Islands boast a temperate climate enabling for all-year-round cricket. Very occasional rain showers might fall in the Winter months of Nov – Feb but matches are rarely cancelled or abandoned. However the opposite occurs during the Summer months of Jun – Sept with shade temperatures around 40°C in August. During the other months, expect exceedingly mild conditions with a slight breeze to top up your sun-tan.

Cricket has been played on the existing site for over a century. A cricket match is played every Saturday at the club, with touring sides offered both weekend and midweek matches. Any keen cricketer, on holiday or business, is very welcome to join the locals in one of the regular Saturday matches.

The club is centrally located but no tourists resort is in the adjacent vicinity. We organise transport to and from the cricket pitch for all visiting teams and the most you will have to travel would be for a mere 20 minutes. The Marsa CC is affiliated to the Malta Cricket Association.

The facilities include a well-grassed outfield, net-practise area and a colonial-style pavilion. The oval measures some 125 metres by 90 metres wide. The pitch is a concrete strip with an artificial mat (Wimbledon Unreal Grass) glued on top. This makes rubber-soled shoes a pre-requisite. Maltese limestone building-bricks demarcate the boundary and make up the large sight-screens.

The pavilion is also built from these bricks and houses a changing-room with showers and a kit-room. Outside the pavilion is a wooden-fenced enclosure. To one side of the pavilion are two practise-nets of similar construction to the central pitch. The grass outfield is kept green throughout the year by means of a sprinkler system. Surrounding the ground are mature trees and bushes which have been known to claim the odd cricket-ball.

Numerous touring sides have enjoyed playing at Marsa with many returning on a regular basis. Most tourists come from England however there have been teams from many other countries, including America, Australia, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Switzerland and Wales.
Many Royal Navy ships have enjoyed playing at the club during their short breaks in Valletta’s Grand Harbour.

Interest in touring to Malta is constantly on the increase. We suggest that you make your enquiries as early as possible. To avoid disappointment, some clubs book their dates as early as two years prior to travelling. The busiest months tend to be mid-March to early-May for pre-season outdoor match practise and late-September to early- November for post-season social matches.

Cricket Tours including airport transfers, 7 nights accommodation in
3 Star accommodation on BB, all match fees and transfers
for 3 matches with 40 overs along with light lunches and
water during match days start from only GBPounds 250


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