CHENNAI: B Indrajith will lead the TNCA President’s XI in the Kalpathi AGS-All India Buchi Babu invitation cricket tournament to be held here from September 2.
The state selection committee also picked the TNCA City XI and the Districts team to take part in the tournament.
Teams: TNCA President’s XI: B Indrajith (captain), Ganga Sridhar Raju, L Suryapprakash, B Aparajith, MS Washington Sundar, R Rohith (wk), Malolan Rangarajan, Rahil S Shah, L Vignesh, V Lakshman. R Vishal, S Abhishek, Ashwath Mukumthan, R Sonu Yadav, S Mohan Prasath. TNCA City XI: K Bharath Shankar (captain), K Mukunth, M Shahrukh Khan, K Vishal Vaidya, B Anirudh Sita Ram, S Swaminathan, S Lokeshwar (wk), S Karthik, Yo Mahesh, M Raja, Aushik Srinivas, S Kishan Kumar, Kiran Akash, X Alexander, M Siddharth. TNCA Districts XI: N Jagadeesan (wk) captain, Hari Nishanth, NS Chaturved, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, S Radhakrishnan, J Kousik, W Antony Dhas, R Rohit, M Mohammed, Anand Subramanian, RS Jaganath Srinivas, R Sai Kishore, DT Chandrasekar, R Sanjay Yadav, M Abhinav.
Alexander scalps six
Left-arm spinner R Alexander’s 6/86 enabled CromBest to restrict Grand Slam to 266/8, on the first day of the fifth round of the Senior Division League of the TNCA, at Murugappa grounds on Monday.
Brief scores: Group A: India Pistons 190 in 77.2 ovs (S Chandrasekar 42; M Prabhu 45, S Ashwath 3/50) vs Young Stars 23 for no loss in 6 ovs. UFCC (T Nagar) 245 in 87.1 ovs (M Vijay Kumar 48, Aditya Barooah 43, R Rishi Kumar 56; S Aswin Kumar 5/64, AC Prathiban 5/80) vs AG’s Office. At VB Nest: (Due to wet outfield match started at 2 pm): Jolly Rovers 28/0 in 9 ovs vs Nelson SC. Group B: TI Cycles 171 in 64.2 ovs (R Nilesh Subramanian 60, Sumant Jain 54; Malolan Rangarajan 5/44) vs Vijay CC 64/1 in 25 ovs. Alwarpet 290/5 in 90 ovs (K Vishal Vaidhya 49, U Mukilesh 94 no) vs Globe Trotters. Grand Slam 266/8 in 83 ovs (Bhargav Merai 91; R Alexandar 6/86) vs CromBest.
Akash shines
IS Akash’s 78 helped St Patrick’s to beat PS SSS by 32 runs in the inter-school tournament for Indian Bank Trophy.
Brief scores: Govt HSS, Ashok Nagar 142/9 in 15 ovs (S Bharath Raj 27 no, Risha Rajas 3/16) bt PSBB KK Nagar 100/9 in 15 ovs (R Aravindan 4/14). Vidya Mandir SSS 107/7 in 15 ovs (R Rohit 27) bt Modern SSS 62 in 15 ovs (S Siddharth Sai Kumar 3/4). St Patrick’s AIHSS 125/2 in 15 ovs (IS Akash 78, R Vivek 38) bt PS SSS 93/7 in 15 ovs (V Prasanna Hari 35). SBOA 90/3 in 15 ovs (R Kawin 41) lost to PSBB Millennium School 93/4 in 13 ovs (S Dipen 30 no). Bala Vidya Mandir 38 in 10 ovs (P Vidyuth 4/9) lost to St Bede’s AIHSS 42/1 in 6 ovs (Sham Vikram 26). Nellai Nadar MHSS 129/3 in 15 ovs (Saffin 48) bt MCC 74/9 in 15 ovs (Milan 3/9).
RCF win
RCF defeated Arise BC 96-88 in a league match of the 53rd All-India basketball tournament for PSG Trophy held at Coimbatore.
Results: RCF 96 (Harmandeep 29, Rajan Sharma 26) bt Arise BC 88 (Harish 34, Vijay Baskar 14).
Natarajan to start academy
Tamil Nadu and Kings XI Punjab player Thangarasu Natarajan is set to start a cricket coaching institute, Natarajan Cricket Academy, in Chinnappampatti (Salem), his hometown. The academy will be inaugurated on Thursday, with Baba Aparajith, Baba Indrajith, and Washington Sundar as chief guests. TN girls team that won gold in 28th Junior National Throwball Championships sports@newindianexpress.com