Chennai: P Sugendhiran’s stellar knock of 100 paved the way for his team, Egmore RC, to achieve a six-wicket win over Sical RC in the TNCA Lower Division League.
Set to chase 193, Egmore RC reached the target with six wickets remaining and 17 overs to spare. Apart from the centurion, R Naresh contributed 60 to the winning cause.
In another low-scoring match, Jupiter Sports Club’s C Sarath Kumar did the star turn taking six wickets for 25 runs to bowl his team to a 21-run win over Twentieth Century Club.
Brief scores:
III-DIVISION ‘A’:
Bhimannapet Recreation Club 175 in 49.4 overs (M Santhosh Gopi 37, Huzefa M Patel 37, S Aravind 4/55, T Pravin 3/28) bt Central United Club 154 in 47.5 overs (S Nishanth Yadav 45, Hardik R Davey 3/34, S Shikapdeen 3/46);
Sical Recreation Club 192/9 in 50 overs (Bodavarapu Sudhakar 63, N Manish Kumar Yadav 4/31) lost to Egmore Recreation Club 193/4 in 33 overs (P Sugendhiran 100, R Naresh 60);
Jupiter Sports Club 130 in 47.4 overs (G S Samuvel Raj 3/27, K Sambasiva Sarma 3/24) bt Twentieth Century Club 109 in 43.3 overs (Ashwin Anand 33, C Sarath Kumar 6/25).
IV-DIVISION ‘B’:
Chennai Port Sports Council 138 in 37.5 overs (K Meganathan 35, S Kumar 5/31) lost to Vigneswara Cricket Club 139/2 in 16.4 overs (R Ramkumar 66, S Jayachandran 32);
Social Cricket Club 127 in 33 overs ( S Athreya Sudarshan 31*, R Sarath Kanna 6/46) bt GE T&D India Sports and Recreation Club 125 in 43.1 overs (M V Jeyamariyappan 38, K Arun Kumar 5/41, A Shriram 4/31).
VI-DIVISION ‘A’:
Singaravelar Memorial Cricket Club 230/6 in 30 overs (J Senthil Suderson 65, S Mohana Prasanth 35, F Riyas 34, K Vasantha Kumar 30, R Sanjay Sharma 3/53) bt South Indian Athletic Association 189/9 in 30 overs (SS Srinath 58, K Karthikeyan 35, W Jayakumar 4/55);
Egmore Club 220/7 in 30 overs (S Naresh 58, R Gowthaman 46, N Ganesh 46, P Girish Prabhu 3/17) bt Madras Indians Cricket Club 109 in 17.4 overs (B Rajinikanth 3/23, S Sathya Narayanan 3/22).
VI-DIVISION ‘B’:
Indian Oil Sports and Recreation Club 390/2 in 30 overs (S Suresh Kumar 100, K Om Nitin 105*, K Prabhu 104*, H Varun 42) bt Bank of India Sports and Recreation Club 64 in 16.3 overs (SV Sastha Prashanth 4/11);
Free Lancers Cricket Club 140 in 29.3 overs (Neeraj Ravikumar 37, S Sunilraj 31, G Bhaskaradipan 5/31, S Mahenthiran 3/23) bt Universal Recreation Club 131 in 29.5 overs (E Arun Kumar 60, D Vivekanandan 3/34, R Saravana Kumar 3/42).