P Arun Kumar’s spell of five for 56 went in vain as his team Minerva CC lost to Prithvi CC by a huge 148-run margin in the TNCA lower division league.

Chennai:
Setting off in pursuit of 226, Minerva CC surrendered meekly getting dismissed for 77 with none of the batsmen offering any resistance. Elsewhere, T Siddhartha took five for 78 but that wasn’t enough to prevent his team, Grove CC, from losing to Harnath CC by 41 runs.
Brief scores: IV-DIVISION ‘C’: Prithvi Cricket Club 225 in 45.3 overs (S Prasanth 59, K Sathish Kumar 32, P Arun Kumar 5/56) bt Minerva Cricket Club 77 in 17.4 overs (B Parthiban 3/21, A Aasrit 3/10, R Bharath Rajan 3/12); Bharathi Sports Club 158 in 49.1 overs (Krish Jain 49, SG Karneswaran 4/33, CS Santosh 3/46, M Suriya Narayanan 3/55) lost to Tiger Cricket Club 159/8 in 46.5 overs (H Sathish Babu 57, G Ramaswamy 41*, P Akarsh 4/38, M Ved Prakash Raja 3/33); BSNL Chennai Telephones Recreation Club 93 in 36.3 overs (S Balaji 32, S Mohana Sundaram 3/24) lost to Ranji Cricket Club 94/5 in 14.2 overs; Chatnath Recreation Club 150 in 38.2 overs (M Vasisht 48, R Aravindan 37, S Vivek Athinam 4/49, S Muthu Kumar 3/17) lost to Krishnaraj Memorial Club 151/5 in 30.2 overs (S Prabhu 50, J Manivannan 3/63); Venkateswara Cricket Club 131 in 40.1 overs (R Mithun 4/18) lost to Bharath Petroleum Corporation Club 132/8 in 23.3 overs (S Gowtham Raj 62, R Sunil Kumar 3/45). V-DIVISION ‘A’: C. Appaiah Chettiar Memorial Cricket Club 194 in 47 overs (S Kalicharan 66, Miriyun Jai Sendhil 60, D Suresh 5/43, P Murugan 3/44) lost to Perambur United Club 195/6 in 43.3 overs (NG Dinesh 50*, P Murugan 47*). V-DIVISION ‘B’: Prasad Cricket Club 146 in 45.4 overs (S Mohammed Maaz 54, Bhargav Ramani 31, S Kumar 4/29, V Rajesh 3/19) lost to ICI Sports and Recreation Club 148/3 in 26.4 overs (K Shankar 72, S Sethupathi 30*); Harnath Cricket Club 316 in 50 overs (GB Sathish Kumar 57, T Baskar 49, R Prasad 48, T Adhavan 47, K Arun Kumar 47, T Siddhartha 5/78) bt Grove Cricket Club 275 in 48.3 overs (A Periyasamy 66, SP Nandakumar 57, Rakesh Ramani 46*, R Shreyas 37, M Naresh Kumar 4/71, R Sai Bharat 3/63). V-DIVISION ‘C’: Gandhi Cricket Club 257/7 in 50 overs (Anirudh Krishnan 83, Harish Sasi Kumar 31, Avinash Upadhyay 4/49) bt Milkyway Cricket Club 201/9 in 50 overs (Avinash Upadhyay 35, Vignesh Kaliappan 33, Y Aswath Kumar 31); Sir Ashley Biggs Institute 137 in 40.1 overs (K Sudhakar 57, N Rashul Haseef 37, E Saravanan 4/52) lost to Chennai Corporation Official Association 141/5 in 38.4 overs (S Pavan 52*, C Kishore Kumar 35*, RS Thilak 4/45)
Conversations