CHENNAI: SA Saleem of MCC beat Shoaib of FB 4-2 in the second round of the Tamil Nadu 6 Red snooker state ranking tournament.
Results: Round 2: Goutham (Snook City) bt Kishore (TC) 4-2; Balaji (Mr Q) bt Sajiv Mathew (TC) 4-1; Senthil (USA) bt L Kishore (Namakkal) 4-1; Edward Kennedy (TNBSA) bt Himanshu (Snook In) 4-0; Prabhu (MGC) bt Karthik (BB) 4-3; Rajesh Bothra (TNBSA) bt Prakash (BZ) 4-2; Hariharan (TNBSA) bt Sathish (INSC) 4-0; Damu (SIAA) bt Azar (USA) 4-0; Dharshan (TNBSA) bt Prasanth (Snook City) 4-0; Vadivel (FB) bt Allan Barry (SC) 4-1; Tharun (Mr Q) bt Mothinath (TNBSA) 4-0; D Bhuvaneswaran (MyC) bt Kamal (Q Zone) 4-2; SA Saleem (MCC) bt Shoaib (FB) 4-2; Vinod (SC) bt Sharath (USA) 4-0; Vasanth (MCC) bt Aditya (Mr Q) 4-1; Dharmaraj (Karur) bt Magesh (MRC) 4-3; Shoaib (FB) bt Sanjay (SC) 4-2; Mustaq (Q Tricks) bt Chandru (Q Zone) 4-1.
Hariesh shines
J Hariesh’s 84 enabled Madras Cricket Club to thrash Madras Port Trust Staff Institute by 132 runs in a Third Division B-Zone TNCA league match.
Brief scores: III Division B: Madras Cricket Club 248/7 in 50 ovs (J Hariesh 84; B Ragvasisht 5/75) bt Madras Port Trust Staff Institute 116 in 42.1 ovs (R Ram Kumar 4/17); Central United Club 176 in 48.4 ovs (K Anok Raju 49; K Kiran Kasshyap 5/44) bt Reserve Bank Recreation Club 155 in 47 ovs (R Chandrasekar 5/42); Cosmopolitan Club 172/9 in 50 ovs (K Krishna Babu 52; H Raja 4/33) bt Mambalam Mosquitos 167 in 48.5 ovs.