Chennai: S Karthik (116*) hit an unbeaten century as Nelson ended day one at 293 for two against TI Cycles in the TNCA First Division ninth round match at the TI Murugappa Cricket Ground here on Thursday.
Batting first, Karthik played a patient knock for Nelson, hitting only 10 boundaries during his 265-ball stay at the crease. He stitched a 154-run second wicket stand with Anand (92), who missed a ton by eight runs.
Elsewhere, Grand Slam made 224 for eight versus India Pistons. Madras Cricket Club was all-out for 214 in its encounter against Crombest, which was 49 for two at stumps.
Brief scores: Young Stars 277 for 9 in 85 overs (R Sathyanarayan 86, Adithya Ganesh 83, R Silambarasan 32*, L Vignesh 3/52, Rahil Shah 2/68, M Mohammed 2/44) vs Vijay
Grand Slam 224 for 8 in 90 overs (S Lokeshwar 41, V Ganga Sridhar Raju 41, Bhargav Merai 69*, Maan K Bafna 3/53, Rajwinder Singh 3/86) vs India Pistons
MRC ‘A’ 266 for 4 in 90 overs (NS Chaturved 41, Arpit Vasavada 70, K Srikar Bharat 87*, Virat Singh 28*) vs Jolly Rovers
Alwarpet 91 in 28 overs (Manprit Juneja 23, L Sathiyannaarayan 6/39, Monish Satish 3/33) and 7 for no loss in 3 overs vs Globe Trotters 181 in 55 overs (S Aniruda 47, Sumant Jain 41, X Thalaivan Sargunam 34, Monish Satish 25, R Sanjay Yadav 5/61, M Siddharth 5/77)
MCC 214 in 67.2 overs (S Suresh Kumar 60, Akshay V Srinivasan 61, R Alexandar 4/77, S Mohanraj 3/64, Wilkins Victor 3/32) vs CromBest 49 for 2 in 21 overs
Nelson 293 for 2 in 90 overs (KH Gopinth 25, S Karthik 116*, Anand Subramanian 92, Manan Sharma 50*) vs TI Cycles