CHENNAI: In a match where 20 wickets fell on the first day of the tenth round of the TNCA First Division League, Alwarpet CC secured a lead of 45 runs against Jupiter SC.
Opting to bat, Jupiter was bowled out for 83 with Alwarpet’s left-arm spinner P Vidyuth taking six for 39, his sixth fifer this season.
Off-spinner R Pravin took three for 11.
In reply, Alwarpet was dismissed for 128. Elsewhere, Singam Puli’s left-arm spinner Dharmendra Jadeja scalped seven for 35, including a hat-trick, as Sea Hawks was bundled out for 101.
At the close of play, Singam Puli was on 122/7, a lead of 21 runs, with skipper U Mukilesh scoring 51.
Brief scores:
Jupiter 83 in 32.3 overs (P Vidyuth 6/39, R Pravin 3/11) vs Alwarpet 128 in 26.5 overs (R Sasidharan 4/46, Subhan Krishnan Sridhar 5/47); Sea Hawks 101 in 46 overs (RS Mokit Hariharan 64*, Dharmendra Jadeja 7/35 (incl. hat-trick) vs Singam Puli 122/7 in 42 overs (U Mukilesh 51, N Selvakumaran 3/55); SKM CC 197 in 68.2 overs (C Hari Nishaanth 51, V Maaruthi Raghav 50*, RD Pranav Ragavendra 4/51, R Srinivasan 3/51) vs Globe Trotters 59/0 in 16 overs (D Santhosh Kumar 40 batting); MRC ‘A’ 218/5 in 90 overs (M Boopathi Vaishna Kumar 42, B Anirudh Sitaram 55 batting) vs Vijay; Jolly Rovers 265/7 in 90 overs (R Vimal Khumar 70, B Sachin 43, B Indrajith 40, R Bharat Srinivas 4/80, S Mohan Prasath 3/51) vs Young Stars; Grand Slam 104 in 45.5 overs (R Sanjay Yadav 5/25, A Esakkimuthu 3/38) vs Nelson 174/2 in 42 overs (Shoaib Mohd. Khan 60 batting, T Saran 42)