Local League: Naresh century helps Prem CC win thriller

Chasing 286, the winner got to the target with only a single ball to spare thanks to Naresh’s heroics with the bat. In another match, Raghu Shivam Sharma took five wickets as Jupiter Sports Club registered a comfortable nine-wicket win over Madras Aryan Club in a fourth division ‘A’ game.

BRIEF SCORES: III-DIVISION ‘B’: Bunts CC 285 in 50 overs (Srinivas Anoop Pai 107, K Sreekanth 82, D Bala Subramani 3/82, G Madan Kumar 3/62) lost to Prem CC 286/9 in 49.5 overs (R Naresh 137, J Prabhu 52, R Naveen 3/33); Sical RC 197 in 49.1 overs (MS Raja 60, S Kishore Kumar 32, M Sabari Prabhu 3/66, Dinesh Rex Fernandez 3/31, S Suraj 3/41) lost to Southern Railway SA 198/9 in 45.5 overs (A Nirmalraj 60, G Umapathy 37, K Vignesh 4/48, S Krishna Kumar 4/25); DSS Club 337/5 in 50 overs (J Suresh Kumar 77, V Anbarasan 70, M Shajahan 67*, M Santhosh Gopi 47, G Dilip 3/77) beat Gems CC 177 in 48.4 overs (S Prasanna 69, S Thilak 3/47); Central UC 159 in 50 overs (S Parameeswaran 33, V Sasikaran 4/38, D Giripal 3/31) lost to Cosmopolitan Club 161/9 in 45 overs (R Aravindraj 35, R Chandrasekar 3/41, R Prabhuram 3/46); Rising Stars CC 236 in 49.2 overs (AR Anand Kumar 52, AK Suresh 44, V Siddanth 39, M Guhan 4/68) beat Krishnaraj Memorial Club 130 in 30.2 overs (ES Dheena Dhayalu 4/42, Hardik R Davey 3/26).

IV-DIVISION ‘D’: Madras Aryan Club 142 in 44.1 overs (R Deepak 37, Raghu Shivam Sharma 5/35) lost to Jupiter SC 146/1 in 29.2 overs (D Gowri Shankar 75*, TK Gowthama Raj 40*); Triplicane Friends United CC 199/9 in 50 overs (A Adithya Narayan 62, Ajay Kumar Dhaka 52, B Sai Sudharsan 35, K Jagadish 5 for 41) beat Youngsters CC 133 in 33.1 overs (M Vetrivel 36, P Nirmal Kumar 3/20); Triplicane UC 120 in 46.1 overs lost to Triplicane CC 121/7 in 29.3 overs (E Karthick 48, Anup Mandal 3/16); Vigneswara CC 231 in 49.4 overs (V Rohit 52, RA Aravind 43, S Jayachandran 40, R Nikhil 3/35) lost to Madras UC 232/7 in 46.3 overs (Prateek Bokaria 46, A Kapil Sharma 33); Bharathi SC 235/9 in 50 overs (S Sai Sabareesha 124*, Sameer Mukund Shah 5/63) beat Prasad CC 214 in 47.5 overs (Gaurav Jain 65, M Sujendran 36, S Ashwin 4/50)