Chennai: B Gopi delivered a great spell with the ball as Madras Emmanuel Cricket Club defeated Triplicane Friends United Cricket Club by nine wickets in the TNCA Fourth Division ‘A’ match here.
Gopi took a six-wicket haul to skittle out Triplicane for a meagre 97 in 38.3 overs. He gave away only 23 runs during his spell.Madras Emmanuel cruised to the target, losing just one wicket.
In another match, S Sabarinathan scored an unbeaten hundred as Madras Aryan Club beat State Bank of India Recreation Club by 92 runs.
Brief scores:
IV-DIVISION A:
Perambur Club 216 for 9 in 50 overs (Arjun Raam 57, P Arun 34, Manoj Vasan 34, K Palani Samy 4/37) beat Bharathi CC 124 in 40.4 overs (HI Waseem Ahmed 52)
Madras Aryan Club 268 for 7 in 50 overs (S Sabarinathan 101 n.o, E Mukesh 83, S Karthick 32) beat State Bank of India RC 176 in 45.3 overs (K Dhilepan 56, R Deepak 3/6, G Maharaja 3/33)
Park Town RC 177 in 49.1 overs (M Boopathy Vaishna Kumar 65, K Aravind Ramanan 30, N Vikraman 4/54) beat Book Sellers XI 163 in 47 overs (R Ramesh 40, U Sreenath 39, Koonal A Khedkar 5/34)
Triplicane Friends United CC 97 in 38.3 overs (B Gopi 6/23) lost to Madras Emmanuel CC 99 for 1 in 22.5 overs (B Dinesh 43 n.o, K Rajesh Kumar 40)
II-DIVISION A:
Indian Overseas Bank Staff Club 218 in 49.3 overs (Abhishek M Hegde 60, S Tarun Srinivas 43, Gonnabattula Chiranjeevi 4/28) lost to Southern Railway Institute 219 for 4 in 44.3 overs (M Suresh 73 n.o, S Deepakraja 40)