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Vijay Kumar bowls Minerva to victory

Chennai: Minerva CC’s J. Vijay Kumar picked up seven for 10 to dismiss Universal for 24 in the TNCA fourth division ‘A’ league here. Minerva was home in 2.4 overs.

In the second division league, V. Nishanth scored 140 to take MCC to a 75-run win over DSS Club.

The scores: II div: MCC 277 for eight in 50 overs (V. Nishanth 140, P.Ramajayem five for 79) bt DSS Club 202 in 39.3 overs (M. Satish Kumar 41, R. Madhavan four for 69).

III div ‘B’: Bunts CC 213 for nine in 50 overs (S. Avaikarasan 69, R. Vijay Chakaravarthy four for 48) lost to Book Sellers XI 219 for seven in 48.1 overs (K. Vidyuth 69).

Falcon CC 249 in 50 overs (G.R. Sadhashiv Iyer 67, S. Vignesh 48, Jitinder Scidanandh six for 59) bt Galaxy SC 131 in 49.1 overs.

Sir Theagaraya RC 179 in 46 overs (T. Joseph James 64) lost to Magnet CC 181 for five in 34 overs (S. Palanivel 83).

Rising Stars CC 147 in 43.1 overs lost to Bharathi SC 151 for two in 34.1 overs (Santhosh 73).

Jupiter SC 268 for eight in 50 overs (K. Velmurugan 77 n.o., Sivakumar 54) bt Venkateswara CC 263 for seven in 50 overs (Sajjad Hussain 109, N.N. Leenesh 62, Bharath 41).

Madras Port Trust 168 for nine in 50 overs (S.V. Ramkumar four for 57) lost to CCL 169 for one in 33.4 overs (S. Raghav Srinivas 81 n.o., S. Kumaresan 56).

IV div ‘B’: TUC 131 in 42.2 overs (V.Boopathi four for 49) lost to Sea Hawks CC 132 for four in 30 overs.

IV div ‘A’: Royapettah CC 311 for six (decl.) in 45 overs (D. Jai Shankar 102, S. Saravana 80, S. Sriram four for 48) bt Grand Prix CC 69 in 33.5 overs (R. Venkatesh four for 19, C. Rajesh four for 19).

Vigneswara CC 228 in 49.4 overs (S. Ramesh 58, Varun 42, N. Srinivasa Raghavan four for 58, M. Sriram five for 71) bt Bharathi CC 118 in 30.1 overs (Narasimiah five for 26).

MRC ‘B’ 264 in 49.3 overs (R. Prabhu Dhev 82, S. Arjun 51) bt Prasad CC 262 in 50 overs (Promodh Sharma 43, Satish Ganesan 56, P.S. Raghavan four for 75).

Fox Trotters CC 283 in 50 overs (Prabhu 97, V. Thulasidaran 68, G. Chan Basha five for 40) bt Appaiah Chettiar MCC 262 for seven in 50 overs (D. Sathish 93, T. Aravind 55).

Universal RC 24 in 7.1 overs (J. Vijay Kumar seven for 10, T. Sriram three for 12) lost to Minerva CC 27 for no loss in 2.4 overs.

V div ‘B’: Singaravelar MCC 113 in 37.3 overs (Ramani Chandran seven for 55) lost to Sounder CC 116 for three in 21.3 overs.

Egmore Excelsiors 125 in 36 overs (Vinod 46 n.o.) lost to Prem CC 126 for two in 19.2 overs (T.G. Ashwin Narayanan 52 n.o.).

Trip.Cosmopolitan Club 266 for nine in 50 overs (J. Hariprasad 67, T. Ragavendar 55) bt TVS MSC 146 in 32.4 overs (Kothandaraman 45, Pon Marimuthu five for 54).

Chennai Corporation OA 271 in 48.1 overs (K.P. Ramesh 111, Sunish Kapoor 55, M.K. Shiva Kumar four for 86, M.S. Kiran four for 50) bt Indian Airlines SC 179 in 33 overs (M.S. Kiran 44 n.o., C. Vijayakumar five for 45).

Gopalapuram CC 211 in 47.4 overs (N.M.K. Ramesh 54, A. Sri Gopinath four for 43) bt TSR MSC 157 in 26.4 overs (B.A. Syed Iqbal six for 44).

V div ‘D’: Nungambakkam CC 282 in 50 overs (B. Eswaran 127 not out, M. Sushi 40) bt Harnath CC 127 in 34.1 overs (R. Prabhu four for 31).

Eccentrics 196 in 48.3 overs (N.C. Deepak 43, A. Srinivasa Raju four for 60) lost to Madras Indians CC 198 for five in 44.2 overs (M. Ravi 45, A. Srinivasa Raju 73 not out).

Chennai P&T 186 in 45.1 overs (Ashok 46, Jai Ganesh five for 72) lost to Purasawalkam CC 189 for three in 28.2 overs (Abinandan 41, Kalyan Sridhar 46).

Perungalathur CC 167 in 39.3 overs lost to TCC 170 for seven in 40 overs.

Venkat CC 193 in 44.2 overs (K. Vivek 86, Avinesh Brighton 47, J. Ashok five for 63, R. Rajan four for 72) bt Presidency College 87 in 26.1 overs. Perungalathur CC 182 in 42.1 overs (A. Jaiesh 61, Sridar Rajaram four for 39, Albert Francis four for 31) lost to Purasawalkam CC 188 for six in 38.2 overs (Ravindar John 59, Albert Francis 58 n.o.).

Presidency College 263 in 49.5 overs (D. Nithya Murugan 88, G. Nagaraj 43, J. Davis Nayagam six for 84) bt Chennai P&T 141 in 32.2 overs (J. Ashok eight for 40).

Eccentrics CC 128 in 36.2 overs (N. Ramesh five for 35) lost to Venkat CC 134 for four in 16.2 overs (R. Karthik Saravana 40 n.o.)

TCC 258 in 49.2 overs (K. Sundar 80, K. Vasantha Kumar 67, Mustafa Basu four for 43) bt Youth Centre CC 226 in 47.1 overs (Mustafa Basu 77, K. Sundar four for 26).

Nungambakkam CC 164 in 42.5 overs (G. Saravanan 45, B. Karikalan six for 59) bt Social CC 139 in 29.3 overs (S.Thyagarajan 48, S.R. Balaji 43, B. Prabhakar six for 17).

Harnath CC 253 in 45.5 overs (K. Natraj 73, M. Ganapathy 47, A.M. Saravanan 42, K.M. Pradeep Kumar 40, V. Kannan) bt Madras Indians CC 185 in 44.1 overs (Srinivasa Raju 69).

Thangavelu College defeated Mar Gregorios by 56 runs in the Kumararaja Muthiah Memorial inter-Collegiate cricket tournament at the A.M. Jain College, here.

The scores:

TMG 106 (Hariharan 39, Prem Kumar five for 21, Prashanth four for 23) lost to KRMM 109 for two in 16.3 overs (Kajavathanan 32).

Thangavelu 185 for five in 22 overs (Udaya 52, Abhilash 38) bt Mar Gregorios 129 for six in 22 overs (Vijay Kumar 33).

S. Dinesh Kumar’s all-round effort (four for 38 and 51) trumped B.M. Balu Raj Kumar’s century as Standard CC defeated Aththis by two wickets in a recent Thiruvallur DCA first division league cricket match.

The scores: First division: Aththis CC 208 for seven in 45 overs (B.M. Balu Raj Kumar 104, S. Dinesh Kumar four for 38) lost to Standard CC 212 for eight in 36.1 overs (S. Dinesh Kumar 51, M. Venkatesh 43, J. Prasanth 42, K. Sriram 41).

Fine Star CA 239 for six in 45 overs (P. Shijith Chandran 49, M. Mukundan 49 n.o., B. Karthik 41 n.o.) bt SRF RC 72 in 27.3 overs (S. Rahunath five for 23, R. Dinesh four for 27).

Second division: Seshadri MCC 281 for six in 30 overs (R. Sahorish 137 n.o., B. Harish 52) bt Mugappair CC 102 in 24 overs (N. A. Vaidyanathan six for 26).

Parthasarathy MCC 112 in 30 overs (R. Padmanaban four for 34) lost to Seshadri MCC 114 for three in 16.3 overs (D. Venkata Krishnan 49 n.o.).

IEC RC 106 for eight in 25 overs (D. Vijaya Kumar 42) lost to Autolec ERC 107 for three in 17.4 overs.

Korattur CC 191 in 24 overs (Mohammed Ali 71, S. Surendar 40) bt TPL RC 162 in 22.3 overs (Bharath six for 52).

Stag CC 116 in 19 overs (R.J . Deepak five for 36) lost to Mugappair CC 118 for six in 20 overs (K. P. Vishnu Chandar 40); CPCL RC 104 in 20 overs (V. Ramaawamy 43) lost to TPL RC 105 for six in 18 overs.

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