Local League: Rahil, Malolan star in Vijay CC victory

Spinners from both the sides called the shots on a dramatic day where 20 wickets fell. With a first innings lead of 118 runs, Vijay CC was skittled out for 72 in its second innings. Promising left-arm spinner S Mohan Prasath took five for 35 to finish with a match haul of 11 for 82. 

The other five wickets were accounted for by off-spinner S Swaminathan (5/33). Set to chase 191, Young Stars never looked like getting there as it collapsed to 74 all out. Vijay’s spinners Rahil Shah (4/32) and Malolan Rangarajan (5/40) did the star turn sharing nine wickets between them. Rahil finished with match figures of 10 for 74. S Swaminathan was the top scorer for Young Stars with 16. 

BRIEF SCORES: Nelson 606 for nine declared in 145.1 overs (S Karthik 117, M Sridhar Raj 54, K H Gopinath 31 retd hurt, Shoaib Md Khan 121, Swapnil K Singh 101, Anand Subramanian 32, R Srinivasan 50, D Tamil Kumaran 34*, Sunil Sam 3/125, Ashwath Mukunthan 3/126, S Radhakrishnan 3/82) versus Globe Trotters 100 for one 29 overs (K Mukunth 26, A S Govindaraajan 34*, C Hari Nishaanth 34*) Vijay 219 and 72 in 27.4 overs (R Prasanna 18, S Mohan Prasath 5/35, S Swaminathan 5/33) beat Young Stars 101 in 40.2 overs (Wilkins Victor 31, Rahil Shah 6/42, Malolan Rangarajan 3/40) & 74 in 21.2 overs (S Swaminathan 16, Rahil Shah 4/32, Malolan Rangarajan 5/40) Grand Slam 402 for nine declared in 144.3 overs (L Suryapprakash 37, PS Raghul 58, Shubham Sharma 139, R Sathyanarayan 62, V Yo Mahesh 61, M Prabhu 3/107, Nidhish S Rajagopal 2/37) versus India Pistons 89 for three in 33 overs Jolly Rovers 495 for five declared in 90 overs (V Ganga Sridhar Raju 32, B Anirudh Sitaram 44, M Kaushik Gandhi 205*, M Shahrukh Khan 183, R Venkatesh 2/94) versus CromBest 138 for three in 57 overs (Varun M Totadri 77, M Affan Khader 44, D T Chandrasekar 2/26) TI Cycles 276 versus Alwarpet 289 for seven in 90 overs (M Kamalesh 32, B Rahul 77, Ashwin Venkataraman 69, Abhishek Tanwar 39*, Karan Kaila 28, R Sonu Yadav 3/79, R Sanjay Yadav 3/98) AG’s Office 418 in 118.4 overs (S Dinesh 53, M Adithyan 26, S Aswinkumar 42, P Francis Rokins 99, R Karthik Adithya 47, R Rajkumar 61, V Arun Kumar 5/150, Mihir Hirwani 2/113, M Abhinav 2/84) versus UFCC (T Nagar) 139 for four in 56 overs (V Maaruthi Raghav 72*, Sreekumar Nair 37*, Vignesh Kannan 2/43)