Chennai: Rajwinder Singh (5/23) picked up a five-wicket haul in the second innings as India Pistons defeated CromBest by an innings and 37 runs in the seventh round of the TNCA First Division league match at the CPT IP Turf Ground here on Sunday.
Left-arm spinner Rajwinder helped his side bundle out CromBest for a paltry 79 in 29.4 overs. It is to be noted that the winner had a 116-run first innings lead. In another match at the MRF – Pachaiyappa’s College ‘A’ Ground, Nelson’s Shoaib Md Khan (5/16) took five wickets to enforce follow-on on Globe Trotters.
Trotters was all-out for 76 in the first innings, courtesy Shoaib’s stunning spell. At the close of play, it was 138 for three in the second innings.
Brief scores:
Vijay 275 in 112.5 overs (KB Arun Karthick 69, M Shahrukh Khan 43, G Rahul Singh 74, DT Chandrasekar 6/74) vs Jolly Rovers 188 for 1 in 57 overs (Smit Patel 85*, B Aparajith 86*)
Grand Slam 169 and 80 for no loss in 32 overs (S Lokeshwar 33*, V Ganga Sridhar Raju 43*) vs Young Stars 222 in 67.1 overs (R Sathyanarayan 98, Ganesh Satish 53, M Abhinav 5/55)
Alwarpet 460 in 133.3 overs (Swapnil Gugale 48, Jiwan Jot Singh 41, A Muhammed Adnan Khan 65, U Mukilesh 79, R Kavin 54, R Rajkumar 78, M Silambarasan 4/78) vs MRC ‘A’ 84 for 5 in 44 overs
CromBest 148 and 79 in 29.4 overs (Rajwinder Singh 5/23, S Harish Kumar 3/19) lost to India Pistons 264 in 78.4 overs (Rajat Paliwal 38, A Venkatesh 85*, R Alexandar 4/88, Wilkins Victor 3/51)
Nelson 348 in 106 overs (Anand Subramanian 131, Shoaib Md. Khan 43, Manan Sharma 42, MS Sanjay 3/104, Monish Satish 3/65) vs Globe Trotters 76 in 40 overs (Shoaib Md Khan 5/16) and following-on 138 for 3 in 20 overs (K Mukunth 46*, Sumant Jain 82)
TI Cycles 216 vs MCC 264 for 5 in 91 overs (R Nilesh Subramanian 119, J Syed Mohammed 43*, SS Jasvanth 3/58)