Local League: Santhosh stars in Tiruchirapalli win

Other major contributions came from M Thamarai Selvan (50) and C Sakthi Santhosh (71) as Tiruchirapalli ended up scoring 301 for eight. 

Pondicherry’s D Jawahar waged a lone battle scoring a valiant 100 but lack of support from others led to his team getting dismissed for 252.

Brief scores: At Pudukottai: Thiruvarur 102 in 39.1 overs (S Kumar 30, K Baladharan 5/11) lost to Coimbatore 104/6 in 20.1 overs; Pudukottai 189/9 in 50 overs (M Surya 52*, D Durai 5/24, K Gokulnathan 3/20) lost to Tiruvannamalai 190/6 in 37.1 overs (N Jayasuriya 40, SL Lawrence Nova 69*, H Dinesh 31, PC Arun Kumar 3/54). At Tirupur: Tirupur 196/8 in 50 overs (M Manikandan 57, K Dravid 37, AS Amarnath 3/45) bt Tirunelveli 119 in 32.2 overs (P Nithesh Babu 3/20, Karthik Venkatesh 3/38); Karur 235 in 49.2 overs (K Meganathan 122, A Boopalan 3/28, K Kalaiarasan 3/37) bt Namakkal 131 in 32.2 overs (A Mahi Veddanth 54, P Praveen Kanth 4/18, K Meganathan 3/21). At Thoothukudi: Dharmapuri 47 in 26.4 overs (J Naveen 4/10) lost to Vellore 50 for no loss in 6.1 overs; Perambalur 79 in 25.1 overs (T Senthil Kumar 3/26, B Thamarai Kannan 5/21) lost to Thoothukudi 80/3 in 13.5 overs. At Thanjavur: Thiruvallur 246 in 48.3 overs (R Ram Arvindh 36, Aditya Venkatesh 62, R Raja Guru 34, D Vignesh Yadav 35, T Dinesh 4/44) bt Dindigul 167/7 in 50 overs (Aashiq Kaleel Rahman 75*, M Mathivanan 3/39); Ramanathapuram 111 in 30.3 overs (S Vikram 5/4) lost to Thanjavur 114/4 in 26.5 overs (R Dhyanesh 33*). At Salem: Kanyakumari 115 in 41.5 overs (S Dhanish Kumar 33, L Sonu Singh 4/21) lost to Salem 119/5 in 32.3 overs (C Prem Kumar 38*, SJ Krithick 40*, JS Abish 3/10); Tiruchirapalli 301/8 in 50 overs (M Thamarai Selvan 50, C Sakthi Santhosh 71, V Santhosh 100*, V Saie Sharan 3/38) bt Pondicherry 252 in 47.5 overs (D Jawahar 100, R Mohan Doss 33, R Sowmya Narayanan 36, P Mariyappan 4/60). At Theni: Krishnagiri 358/7 in 50 overs (R Sonu Yadav 129, Mohamed Shafeequddin 118, S Ganesh 54*, S Reshikesh 3/90, K Mahendran 3/65) bt Virudhunagar 97 in 35.3 overs (N Shashantha Rajagopal 4/36, K Deeban Lingesh 3/10, R Sonu Yadav 3/9); Nilgiris 185 in 41.1 overs (CR Nanda Kishore 72*, MN Vishnu Priyan 5/40) bt Theni 159 in 43.3 overs (A Akash 5/39). At Nagapattinam: Madurai 62 in 23.5 overs (P Prasanna Kumar 5/24, V Hariharan 4/16) lost to Nagapattinam 64/2 in 17.1 overs; Sivagangai 78 in 36 overs (K Subramaniyan 5/18) lost to Villupuram 79/4 in 15.2 overs (A Kamaleeswaran 32). At Cuddalore: Cuddalore 42 in 15.5 overs (Surya Prakash Subramaniam 6/17, S Arun Kumar 4/20) lost to Erode 46/1 in 10.5 overs