CHENNAI: Left-handed Pradosh Ranjan Paul’s maiden double ton (203; 363b, 22x4, 1x6) enabled Grand Slam to declare at 437 for seven against IOB on Day 2 of the fourth round of the TNCA Senior Division Plate Group match. In reply, IOB riding on Abhishek Hegde’s 52 were 123 for three at stumps.
Brief scores: At MAC: Grand Slam 437/7 decl in 138 ovs (L Suryapprakash 60, J Kousik 50, Pradosh Ranjan Paul 203, V Maaruthi Raghav 82 no; M Shanmugham 3-148, P Akash Ram 3-130) vs IOB 123/3 in 37 ovs (Abhishek Hegde 52, S Siddharth 46); At IC–Guru Nanak: TSC 287 in 109.5 ovs (MUB Sriram 76, V Arunkumar 3-78, Mihir Hirwani 3-47) vs UFCC (T Nagar) 213/2 in 68 ovs (Chirag Jani 90 batting, Kaushik Ram 41 batting). At SSN: AG’s Office 139 & 70/3 in 30 ovs vs CromBest 299 in 90.1 ovs (U Vishal 56, G Hanuma Vihari 54; Vignesh Kannan 5-69).
Vikram grabs limelight
S Vikram’s unbeaten 85 was the highlight of TI School, Ambattur’s 81-run win over Kendriya Vidyalaya HVF in the Rahul Dravid Cup T20 inter-school knock-out cricket meet.
Brief scores: TI School, Ambattur 168/3 in 20 ovs (S Vikram 85 no) bt Kendriya Vidyalaya HVF 87 in 13.2 ovs. VKP ‘A’ 144/9 in 20 ovs (S Ajay Kumar 46; Sangameshwaran 4-29) bt Padma Sarangapani School 79 in 17.1 ovs (Mohammed Shafeequddin 3-10, Manav Patel 3-6). VKP ‘B’ 60 in 20 ovs (R Vishal 4-9, RS Akash 3-13) bt Modern SSS 54 in 19.3 ovs. St Ann’s 116 in 20 ovs (R Mokithariharan 3-27) lost to Vyasar Vidyalaya 118/2 in 14.2 ovs (Mokithariharan 48 no). PSBB Millennium 148/5 in 20 ovs (Pranav Kumar 70 no) bt JJSIS 132 in 18.4 ovs (P Sujay 53; Adithya Varadarajan 3-15). Chinmaya Virugambakkam 63 in 17.2 ovs (P Kummaravel 3-10) lost to Muslim School 67/2 in 10 ovs.
Sunny’s basketball class
About 150 students took part in the Sports Nation-CV Sunny Basketball Academy four-day coaching camp held at the JN Indoor Stadium. Sunny, a former captain and coach of the Indian basketball team, and noted Indian woman basketball player Meena Latha trained the players.
High-scoring draw
Chennai United FC were involved in a 4-4 draw with ICF in a St Joseph’s–CFA Senior Division league match held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
Results: Senior Division: ICF 4-4 Chennai United FC; First Division: Chennai City Police 1-0 SD Somasundaram FC.
Summer coaching camps
Cunnan Cricket Academy and N Kanniah Cricket Academy will conduct their annual cricket summer coaching camp (for boys and girls above 8) from April 15 at DRBCCC Hindu College, Pattabiram and Perambur Railway grounds, respectively. Contact: 9841302434, 9444435689 (Cunnan) 9840499160 & 9840499160 (Kanniah).