Date:07/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/07/stories/2008100760891800.htm

Sport - Sports : General

Superb spells by Mahadevan, Sundra Moorthy and Sudarsanam

CHENNAI: R. Sundra Moorthy and R. Sudarsanam starred in the TNCA third division ‘A’ cricket league, their seven-wicket hauls driving Prithvi and Garnet respectively to victories.

In the fifth-division league, Grove’s A.K.G. Vijay Anand slammed 191, while Eccentrics’ S. Mahadevan scalped eight for 51.

The scores:

Third Div. ‘A’: Prithvi CC 235 for nine in 50 overs (I. John Baptist 40, S. Manikandan four for 48) bt Madras Aryan Club 145 in 43.5 overs (R. Sundra Moorthy seven for 48).

Cosmopolitan Club 251 in 49.3 overs (T. Venkat Parthiban 87, D. Sudhakar 48, N. Mani seven for 93) bt TNEB 136 in 43 overs (Kunal A. Khedkar five for 32).

Perambur Club 177 for nine in 50 overs lost to Mambalam Mosquitos 180 for five in 35 overs (N.S. Chaturved 57 n.o., Balaji Ramanathan 57).

Garnet CC 207 for eight in 50 overs (G. Terrance Savio 76, R. Sreekanth five for 73) bt Netaji CC 90 in 32.2 overs (R. Sudarsanam seven for 21).

Fifth Div. ‘A’: YMCC 86 in 32.1 overs lost to PUC 90 for one in 12 overs (R. Sivakumar Sukkal 48 n.o.).

Hunters XI 197 in 45.1 overs (N.A. Vaidyanathan 54, B. Prem Anand seven for 48) lost to PTRC 198 for seven in 48.5 overs (R. Devendran 49).

Grove CC 375 for five in 50 overs (A.K.G. Vijay Anand 191, C. Nanda Kumar 67 n.o.) bt Free Lancers CC 142 in 31.4 overs (J. Mathan Kumar 5 for 47).

Chatnath RC 217 for nine in 50 overs (Sandeep 65, T. Devendra Kumar five for 81) lost to Gems CC 219 for three in 39.1 overs (Hari Prasaath 75 n.o., S. Avinash 71).

Fifth Div. ‘D’: Presidency College A&A 84 in 26 overs (S. Mahadevan eight for 51) lost to Eccentrics CC 87 for five in 20.1 overs.

Perungalathur CC 231 in 45 overs (Eswar 51, Mohammed Rafi 43, B. Eswar five for 66) bt Nungambakkam CC 130 in 35.5 overs (Ambrish Rangan six for 41).

Chennai P&T Audit RC 228 for nine in 50 overs (P.K. Senthil Kumar 59 n.o., J. Venkata Subramanian four for 37) lost to Venkat CC 234 for three in 33.1 overs (Thiyagarajan 69 n.o., K. Vivek 68, Avinesh Brighton 41 n.o.).

Saravanan and Bharath shine

Six-wicket hauls by Adambakkam’s K. Saravanan and Gurunanak Combines’s Bharath helped their side register victories over Fine Star and Kattankulathur respectively in the Canara Bank-Kancheepuram DCA first division cricket league here.

The scores:

I div.: Adambakkam CC 247 for nine in 46 overs (S. Vignesh 59, N.P. Balaji 41) bt Fine Star CC 150 in 34 overs (K. Saravanan six for 56, P.J. Varadharaman four for 24).

Krishnaraj RC 230 for nine in 45 overs (M. Vignesh 77, Manohar 40, Ravindra Babu four for 37) bt Fine Star CC 182 in 43.2 overs (Barath 78, K.R. Sivaprakasam five for 54, G. Umapathy four for 58).

Kattankulathur CC 159 in 44.3 overs (Rafiq Mohamed 77, Bharath six for 32) lost to Gurunanak Combines 162 for six in 42.2 overs (K.C. Ramasubramanian 41, Balachandra Bharath 41).

Brindavan CC 225 for eight in 45 overs (S. Janakiraman 41, P. Rajkumar 59) lost to Flakt India RC 226 for seven in 43.2 overs (Shyam 47, Kaviarasan 62).

II div.: Madras Christian College 128 for eight in 30 overs (Karthikeyan 58, V. Lakshminarayanan four for 38) lost to Syndicate Bank RC 130 for four in 28 overs.

Bharath CC 146 for nine in 27 overs bt Blue Bird CC 92 in 21 overs (Mani four for nine).

Inter-district u-14 match at Erode: Erode DCA ‘A’ 92 in 65.4 overs (S.R. Hari Krish five for 12, J. Deepak three for 16) & 57 for two in 24 overs (Sriram 25) lost to Kancheepuram DCA 168 in 81.5 overs (Ajith Samuvel 31, B. Vasanth 64, Mithun three for 53).

Star of Mackey’s hockey tournament

Star of Mackey’s Hockey Club will conduct a nine-player one-day tournament on October 19 at the SDAT-Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium under the aegis of the Chennai Hockey Association.

The winner will take home Rs. 10,000, while the runner-up will receive Rs. 5,000.