CHENNAI:R Girish of Tamil Nadu, who represents Railways, defeated Karnataka’s Balaji Reddy 3-1 to enter the fourth round of the RKG Pro Snooker Series.
Results: R Girish (Rly) bt Balaji Reddy (Kar) 18-81 (62), 64-17, 76-60, 82(69)-0; Abhimanyu Gandhi (Guj) bt L Nagaraj (Kar) 80-14, 81-35, 61-27; Bharat Sisodiya (MP) bt Anand Raghuvanshi (Mah) 27-72, 83-14, 35-65, 84 (72)-37, 70-32; Akshay Kumar (UP) bt Kingshuk Saha (WB) 59-48, 69-1, 101(46)-39; Peter Paul (TN) bt SA Saleem (TN) 71(56)-30, 69-6, 65-21.
Vinod Scalps 5
Vinod’s 5 for 9 helped Fox Trotters beat Kohinoor CC in the SICGIL Trophy for non first division TNCA teams.
Brief scores: Krishnaraj Memorial Club 183/9 in 30 ovs (Niranjan S 46, Vasanth 3/37) lost to Prem CC 184/3 in 29.2 ovs (Aussain 74, Vivek 55, Chidambaresh 42). Prasad CC 215/9 in 30 ovs (Guruprasad 51, Narender Jain 4-29, Arivalagan 3-47) bt Harnath CC 206/9 in 30 ovs (Narender Jain 46). GTUC 164 in 29.5 ovs (K Venkatesh Prabhakar 4-14, M Chandrasekar 3-39) lost to Social CC 166/3 in 24.5 ovs (K Venkatesh Prabhakar 75). Kohinoor CC 151 in 25.1 ovs (Muralidharan 42, Vinod 5-9) lost to Fox Trotters 155/6 in 29 ovs (Prabhu 60).
Adithya Shines
Adithya Venkatesh’s 45 helped Budding Star CA beat Anna Violet CA in an U-16 match of the Stag Little Champ Trophy.
U-12: TDCA 132/1 in 20 ovs (Pradeep Visha 50, S Karan 51 no) bt Annai Violet CA 45. U-16: Budding Star 115/9 in 22 ovs (Adithya Venkatesh 45, Akshay 34) bt Annai Violet 90 (L Mohanraj 40, J Akshay 3-14).