LEG spinner RS Murali Mohamed’s 5 for 21 helped BSNL Chennai Telephones to beat St Bede’s AIHSS by 13 runs in the 48th All-India YSCA trophy tournament.
Brief scores: BSNL Chennai Telephones 126/in 26.3 ovs (Mohamed Adnan Khan 3/0, Raghavendra 3/36) bt St Bede’s AIHSS 113/in 27.3 ovs (Tushar Raheja 54, RS Murali Mohamed 5/21, Velmurugan 4/24). MoM: RS Murali Mohamed; St Patrick’s 144/9 in 30 ovs (Joel Roshan 47, V Mohankumar 3/32) lost to Gopalapuram CC 147/3 in 20 ovs (N Radhakrishnan 74, Rohan Jebaraj 52). MoM: N Radhakrishnan.
Phoobalan, Shazuli joint top
P Phoobalan and Syed Anwar Shazuli (both ICF, Chennai) shared the lead with five points each after the fifth round of the St Peter’s School 1st All-India Open FIDE rated chess tournament held at St Peter’s International School in Kodaikanal. Sharing the second spot with 4.5 points were nine players. Important results (Round 5): Sivakumar C (4) lost to Syed Anwar Shazuli (5), Ram S Krishnan (4) lost to Phoobalan P (5), Karthik P M (4.5) drew with Lakshmi Narayanan M V (4.5), Balasubramaniam R (4.5) drew with Gowtham K K (4.5), Anup Shankar R (4) lost to Saranya Y (4.5), Lokesh N (4.5) bt Aravindaswami T (3.5), Mani Bharathy (4.5) bt Rahul Bharadwaj B (3.5), Mrithyunjay Mahadevan (3.5) lost to Rohit Ramanan TG (4.5), Senthil Kumaran TH (4.5) bt Sathananthan I (3.5), Vignesh B (3.5) lost to Kanishk SK (4).
Income Tax win
Income Tax, Chennai, beat Indian Bank, Chennai, 25-19, 25-13, 25-16 in a men’s match of the Aqua Group-49th state level volleyball tournament for the Texmo Cup, held at Coimbatore.
Selection trials The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association will conduct an open selection trials for the state women U-23 (born on or after September 1, 1994) and senior women’s camp on May 27 at 6.30 am at MAC ‘B’ grounds.