Chennai: Riding on S Siddharth’s whirlwind knock of 138 not out (66b, 15×4, 7×6), Nagapattinam defeated Karur by 34 runs in the TNCA Inter Districts Under-23 T20 tournament.
Brief scores:
At Salem:
Thiruvallur 140/7 in 20 overs (G Gogul 64, T Pravin 3/18) lost to Kancheepuram 142/7 in 20 overs (S Santosh Shiv 69);
Villupuram 133/9 in 20 overs (Raji Boobalan 37) bt Pondicherry 95 in 17.5 overs (R Karthikeyan 38, A Kamaleeshwaran 3/26);
Salem 157/8 in 20 overs (S Sharun Kumar 42, M Rooban Raj 30, LM Sadiq Bash 4/42) bt Tiruvannamalai 105 in 17 overs (S Manigandan 32*, M Nandha Kumar 3/23);
Nagapattinam 192/4 in 20 overs (S Siddharth 138*) bt Karur 158 in 19.5 overs (T Aravinth 35, P Logeshwaran 31)
In Thoothukudi:
Thoothukudi 99 in 19.1 overs (T Madhu Aravind 3/16) lost to Tirunelveli 101/9 in 20 overs (G Jones Samraj 31*, S Karthikeyan 3/11);
Tirupur 184/6 in 20 overs (R Kamagodeeswaran 32, PS Manikandan 77) bt Pudukottai 170/7 in 20 overs (K Manikandan 60, G Saran Prethium 3/28);
Kanyakumari 145 in 19.4 overs (T Saran 31, P Sunil Kumar 31, J Naveen 4/15, S Risheek Kumar 3/29) lost to Vellore 151/3 in 18.3 overs (K Raj Kumar 83, S Ajith Kumar 43*).
