St Mary's CC Dominates V Division 'A' Zone, National CC Triumphs in V Division 'B' Zone"
The TNCA League Championship 2023-24 got off to an exciting start on March 23, 2024, with some intense matches in the V Division ‘A’ and ‘B’ Zones. St Mary's CC had a big win over Madras Indians CC in the 'A' Zone, thanks to great batting by M. Vinith Kumar and V. Aiyappan. In the 'B' Zone, National CC won against Galaxy SC.
Noteworthy performances included T.S. Santhosh Kumar taking 7 wickets for St Mary's CC and G. Naveen Kumar getting a hat-trick for Egmore Club.
Brief scores:
V Division ‘A’ Zone:
Air India SC 75 in 35 overs (N Sriram 4/17) lost to Companions CC 81/2 in 15.1 overs.
Grove CC 169/9 in 50 overs (M Hariprakash 46) lost to Vepery CC 173/7 in 36.1 overs (A Arun Aanand 38, P Guhan 40 n.o, D Harshavardan 4/44).
St Mary's CC 297/6 in 50 overs (M. Vinith Kumar 66, V. Aiyappan 109 n.o, 75b, 5×4, 6×6) beat Madras Indians CC 207 in 46.2 overs (S. Vishnu Prabhu 61, R Dhanush Adit 52, T.S. Santhosh Kumar (leggie) 7/38).
Universal RC 169 in 41.3 overs (C. Karthick 62 n.o, J Syed Haseeb Pasha 34, S. Sabarinathan (offie) 6/64, S. Aravind 3/37) beat Egmore Club 148 in 40 overs (R. Naveen Kumar 59, V. Vignesh 38 n.o, G. Naveen Kumar (ramp) 5/16 (Incl. Hat Trick), B. Venkatesh 3/37).
Youngsters CC 299/7 in 50 overs (K Manoj 120, 123b n.o, 17x4, Selvakumar 67) beat GTUC 162 in 39.3 overs(B Siddharth 54, S Ilaiyarasu 30, A Vikash 4/40, M Eghanathan 3/28).
Kohinoor XI 262/9 in 50 overs (P. Anbu Kumar 45, V Ajay Kumar 65, Jayashankar Narasimhan 41, L. Karthikeyan 30, K. Danvanth 3/48, L Anantha Roopen 3/45) beat Nungambakkam SC 211 in 49.1 overs (M. Niruban Kumar 36, B. Kapil Ashwa 102 (lhb), 120b, 7x4, 5x6, L. Karthikeyan (las) 5/33).
V Division ‘B’ Zone:
Galaxy SC 118 in 29.1 overs (G Jai Vardhan Rajiv 51, A Sahayaraj (ramp) 5/34, S Sachin Sharma 3/36) lost to National CC 119/2 in 25 overs (R Francis Frankfort 46, K Pradeep 37).
Triplicane RC 157 in 43 Overs (S Sai Bharath 50, J Hemchudeshan (offie) 6/31) lost to Netaji CC 161/4 in 21.1 overs (S Vetrivel 49, S Rishikesh 49, SN Abbash 35 n.o).
Gopalapuram CC 272/8 in 50 overs (S Manoj Raj 88, J Naveen 62, V Marcraj 35, B Barath 3/51) beat C Appaiah Chettiar MCC 192 in 42 overs (B Barath 93, S Karthikeyan 32, R Rihan Ali 4/49).
Prasad CC 205/9 in 50 overs (S Manikandan 62, Jemoh Roshan 34, B Ashok Kumar 40, Y Jebaselvin (las) 5/40) lost to Singam Puli CC 211/7 in 44.5 overs (R Divakar 38, S Surya Sree 54, G Rajalingam 38, P V Ravi Theja (offie) 5/63).
Varsity Occasionals 254/4 in 50 overs (J Jeffery Philemon 47, R Raj Jamie Walsh 116 (147b, 9x4, 3x6) beat Grand Prix CC 223/9 in 50 overs (S Padmanaban 32, S Krishna Kumar 39 n.o, N Karthik Kumar 34, TR Pavan Kumar 3/45, M Dharshan 3/63).
HSBC RC 164 in 41.2 overs (R. Raghuram Sharma 32, DK. Vigneshwar 52, R. Mani Karthik (ramp) 5/45) lost to The Triplicane CC 165/6 in 34.2 overs (H. Abishai 59, E. Arun Kumar 61, K. Samarth 3/51).
