Chennai: C Chandra Kumar scalped seven wickets to help St Mary’s Cricket Club register a two-wicket win over Gopalapuram Cricket Club in the TNCA Fifth Division ‘E’ match here.
Gopalapuram was skittled out for a meagre 112 in 35.5 overs courtesy Chandra’s efforts. He did the majority of the damage, but conceded only 34 runs.
The winner got to the target in 45 overs, losing eight wickets. In a Fifth Division ‘C’ match, G Anand slammed a century as United Friends Cricket Club beat Venkat Cricket Club by 61 runs.
Brief scores:
V-DIVISION ‘A’: C Appaiah Chettiar Memorial CC 204 in 49.5 overs (T Vijay Abimanyu 99, C Herald Prabhudas 4/39, Mustafa H Basuwala 3/52) lost to Youth Centre Cricket Club 208 for 5 in 37 overs (Hussain J Darbar 91, V Taher Moiz 35)
Triplicane RC 205 for 9 in 50 overs (N Saiprasad Reddy 70*, K Arun Kumar 31, L Vignesh 31, V Prasath 5/43) beat Amar CC 151 in 42.2 overs (M Mangalanathan 47, P Dinesh Kumar 30, R Yogender Sharma 4/36, K Siddeshwaran 4/36)
V-DIVISION ‘C’: Vijay’s RC 100 in 43.3 overs (K Sukumar 4/48, D Alexander David Raj 4/14) lost to Hunters XI 102 for 4 in 22.1 overs (D Manoj 47*)
United Friends CC (Chengalpet) 241 for 7 in 33 overs (G Anand 103, V Santhana Sekar 53, R Ram Kumar 5/49) beat Venkat CC 180 for 9 in 33 overs (P Prithivi Rajan 89, R Ajith Kumar 3/45)
V-DIVISION ‘E’: Netaji CC 257 for 9 in 50 overs (R Sriram 54*, P Murugan 40, S. Soundararajan 38) beat Companions CC 117 in 39.3 overs (D Dharmaraj 35, V Arjun 4/45, L Naveen 3/31)
Gopalapuram CC 112 in 35.5 overs (S Rizwan 37, C Chandra Kumar 7/34) lost to St Mary’s CC 113 for 8 in 45 overs (LJ Mukund 32*, TS Siva Sankar 5/28)