M David’s twin strikes (60th and 74th) enabled Integral Coach Factory to defeat Arrows 3-2 in the St Joseph’s-CFA Senior division league at Nehru Stadium on Tuesday. Venkatesan scored the other goal for the winners in the 55th minute. For Arrows, Arun (19th) and Justice (65) scored a goal each.
In another match, Hindustan Eagles FC and Southern Railway were involved in a 1-1 draw. Christian Taylor scored for Eagles in the 48th minute, while Riju got the equaliser for Railways a minute later.
Dinesh To Lead TN
Dinesh Karthik will lead Tamil Nadu in the absence of L Balaji (out due to leg injury) against Baroda in the crucial Ranji tie to be played at Baroda from December 15 to 18.
Team: Dinesh Karthik (Captain), Abhinav Mukund, K.B. Arun Karthick, S. Badrinath, R. Prasanna, B. Aparajith, Vijay Shankar, V. Yo. Mahesh, R Aushik Srinivas, Sunil Sam, J. Kaushik, Malolan Rangarajan, M. Mohammed, Kaushik Gandhi, R. Rohith, Rahil S. Shah. Support staff: Chief coach: VB Chandrasekar; Bowling coach: DJ Gokulakrishnan; Fielding coach: M Sanjay.
TN bag three points
M Sharukh Khan’s 4 for 35 helped Tamil Nadu Under-19 to bag a lead of 40 runs against Bengal Under-19 in the drawn match of the Cooch Behar Elite ‘C’ match at Murugappa grounds here on Tuesday. The lead enabled TN get three points. The hosts were 143 for 6 in their second essay.
Earlier, Bengal managed to come close to TN’s target, thanks to a magnificent 160 by Ankit Keshri.
Brief scores: Tamil Nadu U-19 370 and 143 for 3 in 61 overs (K.Bharath Shankar 60 n.o.; J Kaushik 64 n.o.) drew with Bengal U-19 330 in 158.4 overs (Ankit Keshri 160, Himadri Chakraborthy 55, Shubham Dey 33, Abhimanyu Eashwaran 40, M.Sharukh Khan 4-35, K Vignesh 4-113) Pts: Tamil Nadu 3; Bengal 1.
St Patrick’s Post Win
S Vignesh’s 3 for 22 and R Vignesh’s unbeaten 26 was the feature of St Patrick’s thrilling two-wicket win over Don Bosco ‘A’ (Egmore) in the TNCA-City Schools Under-14 tournament of the B Somasundaram trophy quarterfinals match (played on league basis) on Tuesday.
Brief scores: Santhome Hr.Sec.School ‘A’ 175 in 46.3 overs (D. Aditya Barooah 33, AH Mohamed Suhail 38, P Ajith Kumar 51, Aryandas Gupta 3-27) bt PSBB Sr.Sec.School ‘A’ KK Nagar 69 in 24.1 overs (Adhithya Raghuraman 39, P. Ajith Kumar 3-20, A.H. Mohamed Suhail 3-22). Union Christian HSS (Ch-31) 22 in 18.3 overs (G. Dilip 3-14) lost to St.Bede’s ‘A’ 24 for 1 in 7.2 overs. Don Bosco MHSS ‘A’, Egmore (Ch-8) 136 in 50 overs (G. Hemanth Kumar 35, S. Vignesh 3-22) lost to St.Patrick’s 137 for 8 in 49.3 overs (L.P. Nikesh Raj 26, R. Vignesh 26 n.o., G. Karthick Shanmugam 3-30). PS Sr.Sec.School, Mylapore 227 for 6 in 50 overs (V. Shudeshwaran 40, R Karthik 31, G. Varun 29, L J Mukund 67 n o.) bt Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Taylors Road 111 in 39.2 overs (R. Praveen 45, CR Karthikeyan 38, H. Siddharth 3-2, S. Sathya Narayanan 3-11).