CHENNAI: SUJITH Govindaraju’s 107 paved way for Salem to get the better of Virudhunagar by 38 runs in a pre-quarterfinal match of the TNCA inter-districts U-23 tournament on Saturday.
Brief scores: Salem 235 in 49.3 ovs (Govindaraju 107, Kumar 50, Sathish Kumar 4/30) bt Virudhunagar 197 in 45.4 ovs (G Samraj 75, Rajan 54, Jasvanth 3/33); Nagapattinam 167/9 in 50 ovs (Aravindh 49, Siddharth 54, V Jawahar 4/24) lost to Tirunelveli 172/7 in 46 ovs (Stephen 57, Rajasekaran 3/35); Tiruchirapalli 34 in 15.4 ovs (Divakar 5/12, Ram 5/14) lost to Thiruvallur 36/0 in 6.2 ovs; Tiruvannamalai 123 in 42.5 ovs (Sornakaleeswaran 3/11) lost to Madurai 124/5 in 39.2 ovs (Periaswamy 51, Ibrahim 40); Kancheepuram 201/8 in 50 ovs (Arun 51, Kumar 45, Abbas 3/33) bt Thoothukudi 161 in 43.3 ovs (R Pavithran 51, Anton Andrew Subikshan 4/28); Erode 193/8 in 50 ovs (M Ajith Kumar 48 n.o, N Karmegam 45, R Ram Thilak 3/36) lost to Dindigul 194/4 in 41.4 ovs (T Ayyanarmoorthy 41, Y Surya 39); Coimbatore 258/8 in 50 ovs (N Mohammed Ashik 101, S Sujay 40, A Ajay Sabarish 3/47) bt Ramanathapuram 48 in 17.4 ovs (K Guru Vignesh 5/26, S Dinesh Kumar 3/9); Tiruppur 268/9 in 50 ovs (K Sabari Gowtham 77, M Jayaprakash 53) bt Namakkal 131 in 34.4 ovs (K Karthick Raaj 38, B Logu 4/34, G Saran Prethium 3/23).
Manoj stars in Vels’ victory Manoj’s four-wicket-haul helped Vels College peg back Alpha college of by one run in a thrilling T20 game of the SIVET inter-collegiate knock-out tournament on Saturday.
Brief scores: Vels College 141/7 in 20 ovs (Praveen 4/22) bt Alpha college 140 in 20 ovs (Moorthy 46, Manoj 4/33); DB Jain 127/8 in 20 ovs (Rajesh 3/21) lost to Muthukumaran 129/4 in 16 ovs (Rajesh 64 no); Mohamed Sathak 198 in 20 ovs (Ahmed 49, Raja 64, B Sarvanan 5/34) bt Sir Theagaraya College 86 in 17.3 ovs (Saravanan 3/13, M Vimal 3/13); Sindhi College 149 in 18 ovs (Akilan 6/35) bt New Prince 125 in 19 ovs (Yogavannan 3/22).
Rajalakshmi triumph Rajalakshmi Engineering College blanked Meenakshi College of Engineering 4-0 in the SSN College state level inter-engineering college football tournament on Saturday.