CHENNAI: K Sambsiva Sarma (70, 4/40) helped UFCC, T Nagar beat Young Stars by four runs in the 111th VAP Trophy limited-over tournament organised by TNCA at the SSN College grounds.
Brief scores: UFCC (T Nagar)-India Cements 268/8 in 50 ovs (R Ananth 93, S Sarma 70) bt Young Stars, Kalpathi Investments 264 in 49.5 ovs (W Victor 65; S Sarma 4/40). Points: UFCC 4 (0); Young Stars 0 (0). India Pistons 298/7 in 50 ovs (H Kumar 100 n.o, M Prabhu 71, A Subramanian 50) bt Nelson 173 in 42.3 ovs (R Singh 4/33, R Karthikeyan 3/29). Points: IP 4 (4); Nelson 0 (4). Alwarpet-Sanmar 89 in 36.4 ovs (A Mukunthan 3/18, MS Sanjay 2/28, W Sundar 2/8) lost to MRF-Globe Trotters 90/6 in 17.5 ovs (DT Chandrasekar 2/25). Points: GT 4 (8); Alwarpet (0). IOB 258/8 in 50 ovs (AG Pradeep 86 n.o) bt ICF 178 in 44.1 ovs (M Siddharth 2/23 J Joseph 2/21, A Kumar 2/25). Points: IOB 4 (4); ICF 0 (2).
Suthanthiraraj bags seven
Medium-pacer Suthanthiraraj’s 7 for 25 was the highlight of Apollo Tyres’ two-wicket win over YSCA in the GR Kuppuswamy Memorial league cum knockout tournament.
Brief scores: YSCA 129 in 29.1 ovs (Suthanthira Raj 7/25) lost to Apollo Tyres 130/8 in 29.2 ovs (C Kubendran 76; R Ganesh 5/18). Accenture 207/9 in 30 ovs (Raghuram 64, Ajay Nataraj 38; Muthu Kumar 3/37) bt Ashok Leyland 85 in 23 ovs (K Anurag 3/16, K Kishore 3/14). RR Donnelley 231/6 in 30 ovs (NG Dinesh 61, Ashok 58, Chandru 43) bt IBM 129/5 in 28 ovs (Nitish 103 n.o; Jhonson 3/41) via better run rate.
Sai bowls Viveka to victory
Sai Kishore’s 3 for 24 helped Vivekananda College beat Crombest by 11 runs in the 47th All-India Lava YSCA trophy.
Brief scores: RKM Vivekananda College 153 in 29.4 ovs (N Raghavendran 4/32) bt Crombest 142/6 in 30 ovs (AS Govindaraj 58; S Kishore 3/24). Durairaj Memorial 193/8 in 30 ovs (Rajeel 64) lost to Lusuraj 195/5 in 29 ovs (Tariqwal 84, M Adithya 3/20). Pazhavanthangal CC 123 in 29.2 ovs (Sanjay Yadav 3/9) lost to Loyola College 125/4 in 20.3 ovs (Akshay Srinivasan 67 n.o).
National taekwondo
The Indian International Taekwon-Do Federation (IITF), affiliated to International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), conducted the first Open National ITF Taekwondo Cup in New Delhi last month. Thirteen states took part in the two-day event. Tamil Nadu bagged two gold, six silver and three bronze medals in the tournament.