CHENNAI: Off-spinner Jalaj Saxena (4/35) and medium-pacer R Rohit (3/7) bowled in tandem to help Young Stars beat Alwarpet CC by 134 runs in a TNCA fourth round Senior Division Elite Group league match, at SSN College grounds on Sunday.
Alwarpet were comfortably placed at 80/2 in 19.3 overs, but suddenly collapsed to 98/6 in the space of 9.3 overs. They never recovered after that. Young Stars got eight points from this successful outing.
Brief scores: Elite At SSN: Young Stars 283 and 123/6 decl bt Alwarpet 135 and 137 in 33.4 ovs (Kamalesh 51; Jalaj Saxena 4/35, Rohit 3/7, Siddharth 3/54). Points: Young Stars 8 (12) ; Alwarpet 0 (16); At MRF-Pachaiyappa’s: Jolly Rovers 583 drew with Globe Trotters 297/7 in 113 ovs (Washington Sundar 127 no, Gnaneswara Rao 55; Chandrasekar 3/73). Points: Rovers 3 (18); Trotters 3 (8); At CPT–IP: India Pistons 217 and 288/4 in 68 ovs (Jiwan Singh 56, Venkatesh 90 no, Guru Raghavendran 51 no) drew with Vijay CC 501. Points: Vijay 5 (23); Pistons 2 (12).
Danush shines
S Danush of TSPA with a timing of 00:28.60 created a meet record in the Group I 50 meters breaststroke event, at the 34th sub-junior and 44th junior state aquatic championships held at the Velachery Aquatic Complex on Sunday. Danush broke the record held by Sethu Manickavel of TDSA-Tirunelveli who had a timing of 00:28.81 set in 2014.
AA Deepankar of SDAT-ASP clocked 00:29.40 and came second, while Siva Santosh of TSPA came third with a timing of 00:30.12.
Results: Boys: Group I: 1500m Freestyle: 1.Ahamed Azraq (Turtles) 17:24.82 (NMR); 2.Charan (Turtles) 17:38.53; 3.Rakesh Kumar (Turtles) 18:41.77; 50m Backstroke: 1.Danush (TSPA) 00:28.60 (NMR); 2.Deepankar(SDAT-ASP)00:29.40; 3.Siva Santosh (TSPA) 00:30.12; 200m Breaststroke: 1.Danush (TSPA) 02:26.66 (NMR); 2.Joel Singh (TDSA-Tirunelveli) 02:39.51; 3.Akash Navin (TSPA) 02:39.63.
Group II: 1500m Freestyle: Alen Roi (TDSA-Tirunelveli) 19:39.04; 50m Backstroke: Vinayak (SDAT-Velachery) 00:30.53; 200m Breaststroke: Benedicton Rohit (TDSA-Tirunelveli) 02:46.28. Group III: 200m Freestyle: Krishna Pranav (ORCA) 02:22.07; 100m Breaststroke: Jashua Thomas (Balakrishna MHSS)01:24.89. Group IV:100m Freestyle: PR Kathiroli (Turtles) 01:14.03. Girls: Group I: 1500m Freestyle: PM Abishiktha (ORCA) 18:46.82; 50m Backstroke: Jaahnavi (TSPA) 00:31.90 (NMR); 200m Breaststroke: Kaviya (SDAT-Dolphin) 03:08.81. Group II: 1500m Freestyle: DS Srenethi (SDAT-Theni) 19:42.06; 50m Backstroke: Sindhu Sundar (Waves) 00:34.29; 200m Breaststroke: Abisha Angelin (TDSA-Tirunelveli) 03:11.81.Group III: 200m Freestyle: Mugilavanika (SDAT-Madurai) 02:30.22; 100m Breaststroke: Shriya Ishwar Prasad (ORCA) 01:24.40. Group IV: 100m Freestyle: Haasini Prabhakar (TSPA) 01:12.79.
Yash cracks ton
Yash Dubey’s century (123) helped Central Zone to post a total of 314 and draw the match against South Zone in the BCCI inter-zonal U-19 two-day game, at Southern Railway grounds on Sunday. Prateek Yadav also contributed with the a half century.
Brief scores: At VB Nest: East Zone 207 and 85/2 in 33 ovs (Shresth Sagar 40) drew with North Zone 340 for 6 decl in 59.2 ovs (Qamran Iqbal 82, Manjot Kalra 109, Parbh Simran Singh 61; Sankar Paul 3/60); At S Rly: South Zone 334 drew with Central Zone 314 in 85.4 ovs (Prateek Yadav 57, Yash Dubey 123; Aan Khan 3/45).