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South Zone veterans’ cricket tournament from today

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Cricket Veterans’ Association (TNCVA) will conduct the 10th annual South Zone inter-State tournament from February 20 to 23 here under the auspices of the Board for Veteran Cricket in India.

Speaking to newspersons here on Tuesday, P.R. Venkatsubramanian, Joint Secretary, TNCVA, said popular names such as Syed Kirmani, Raghuram Bhat, David Johnson, Kanwaljeet Singh and K.N. Ananthapadmanabhan will be taking part in the tournament, which will see participation from Andhra, Karnataka, Kerala, Hyderabad, Goa and Tamil Nadu.

Six teams have been divided into two groups and the top team from each group will compete in the final scheduled for February 23 at the RKM-Viveka on a 40-overs-a-side basis.

The league matches will be held at the SPIC-YMCA on a 30-overs-a-side basis.

The zonal winner will participate in the all-India knock-out tournament likely to be held in Kolkata or Kerala in April or May.

The all-India final will be shown live on Doordarshan.

Phoogeswaran bats well

S.B. Phoogeswaran’s unbeaten 126 helped CVRDE to victory in the LUCAS TVS-TDCA cricket Trophy for industrials recently.

The scores:

Stag Brand 185 for nine in 30 overs (V. Ramamurthy 58) bt R.V. Printers 182 for nine in 30 overs (B. Annadurai 45).

R.V. Printers 163 for seven in 30 overs (D. Magesh 40) bt Wheels India Ltd. 118 in 21.3 overs (C. Sathya Kumar five for 13).

Stag Brand 190 for eight in 30 overs (M. Muthaiyan 63 n.o., Vijay Chakravarthy five for 56) bt CVRDE 163 in 29.1 overs (Vijay Chakravarthy 47, P. Vijaya Kumar 56, V. Ramamurthy five for 75).

Wheels India 189 for four in 30 overs (R. Shyam Kumar 51, L. Ashwin 50 n.o.) bt Indo Japan Lighting 101 in 21.1 overs (M. Srinivasan six for 20).

Schwing Shetters 248 for five in 30 overs (B. Senthil Kumar 101 n.o.) bt Indo Japan 95 in 24 overs (Raghunath Rao four for 35).

O.C.F. (Avadi) 191 in 30 overs (R. Umapathy 56) lost to Wheels India 192 for four in 28 overs (L. Ashwin Kumar 41, M. Seenuvasan 48 n.o.).

Indo Japan 34 in 13.1 overs (B. Amarnath five for 13 including a hat-trick, E. Jerish Rajadurai four for 10) lost to Delphi TVS 37 for two in 6.4 overs.

R.V. Printers 146 for eight in 30 overs (S. Vinoth Kumar 44 n.o.) bt Delphi TVS 61 in 21 overs.

Schwing Shetters 188 for six in 30 overs (B. Senthil Kumar 101 n.o.) bt Stag Brand 143 in 24.5 overs (Raja 52, M. Balaji five for 20, K. Pradeep four for 35).

ELCOMACH 231 in 29.5 overs (P. Charles 100) lost to CVRDE 235 for three in 23 overs (S.B. Phoogeswaran 126 n.o., John 51).

OCF 104 in 26.2 overs (A. Venu five for 23) lost to Stag Brand 106 for eight in 24.4 overs.

Vam Soft 220 for eight in 30 overs (R. Rochin 62 n.o., S. Seetharaman five for 87) bt Indo Japan 114 in 20 overs (Vasanth Singh four for 17).

Stag Brand 204 in 29. 5 overs (Rajesh 46) bt Delphi TVS 122 in 23.3 overs (Venu five for 29).

Nirmala College posts win

Nirmala College (Kerala) outplayed Loyola Yellows 2-1 in a second round league match of the Father Murphy Memorial football tournament, organised by Loyola College, here on Tuesday.

The results:

Nirmala College 2 (Nikil Babu 22, Sajesh 36) bt Loyola Yellows 1 (Vinoth 55).

Loyola Whites 5 (James Selvakumar 15, Rgegin 30, Chinnaya 40 & 67, Chacho 72) bt PSG (Coimbatore) 0.

Sree Kerala Varma College 3 (Ashiq 35, Masood 54, Chals 74) bt New College 0.

Jamal Mohammed College (Tiruchi) 3 (Kalimullah 59, Ramanan 60, Nallaiyan 75) bt Voorees College (Vellore) 0.

Dhadeus nets winner

ICF beat RBI 1-0, in the CFA senior division football league, on Tuesday. Dhadeus headed in a cross from Ashok Kumar in the 35th minute.

In the first division, Rangoon defeated CPT 3-0. Karthikeyan scored in the fourth and 52nd minutes, while Vigneshwaran netted one in the 73rd minute.

Aishwarya on song

Aishwarya Agrawal (MP) blanked Rimple Deep Kaur (Punjab) 6-0, 6-0 in the girls’ under-16 pre-quarterfinals of the UC MAS-Singaram Pillai all-India junior tennis tournament here on Tuesday.

Other results:

U-14, pre-quarterfinals:

Boys: Surya Pavan (AP) bt T.S.I. Raymond (AP) 6-3, 6-1; Abhishek Alla (AP) bt T.G. Subhash Koushik (TN) 6-0, 3-6, 6-3; Vishal Passi (Mah) bt Rithvik Anand (TN) 6-3, 6-2; Bava (Mah) bt S. Siddharth Reddy (TN) 7-5, 6-0; R. Ram Kumar (TN) bt Anirudh (Lar) 6-2, 6-1; Karan P. Kurup (TN) bt S. Thanmay Reddy (AP) 6-3, 6-1; Arjun Kadhe (Mah) bt R. Sharadh (TN) 6-1, 6-1.

Girls: Prarthana Thombre (Mah) bt S.A. Shree Sanjana (TN) 6-1, 6-0; K. Bhuvana (AP) bt M. Saranya Sivani Varma (AP) 6-4, 6-2; Riddhi R. Hegde (Mah) bt Sanjana Saraswathi (TN) 6-0, 6-0; Zainab Ali Sajjad (AP) bt Kavya Bharat (TN) 6-1, 6-3.

Handa (Del) bt Priya Selvakumar (TN) 6-2, 6-1; Surya Tejaswani (AP) bt C.Sai Samitha (TN) 6-1, 6-4; Swetha Sreehari (TN) bt Sabatini Ankaraju (AP) 6-3, 6-2; Vaidehi Bhagvat (Mah) bt A. Ankita (TN) 6-0, 6-1.

U-16, pre-quarterfinals: U.M. Shalaka (Kar) bt B. Nithya Raj (TN) 7-6(4), 6-3; D. Yamini Reddy (Kar) bt Spurti Sivalingaiah (Kar) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; Surya Tejaswani (AP) bt H. Madhumitha (TN) 6-0, 6-2.

P.A. Sindhu Nila (TN) bt Sanjana M. Kumar (TN) 7-6(3), 6-4; Prarthana Thombre (Mah) bt S.A. Shree Sanjana (TN) 6-1, 6-0; Vaidehi Bhagvat (Mah) bt Zainab Ali Sajjad (AP) 6-2, 6-1; Riddhi R. Hegde (Mah) bt Natallia Khaniejo (Mah) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.

First round:

Aishwarya bt Dhruthi T. Venugopal (Kar) 6-1, 6-0; Rimple bt Preethi Ujjini 6-0, 6-0; Nithya bt Tarrnnum Handa (Del) 6-2, 7-5; Shalaka bt Roma Chandran (TN) 6-2, 6-3; Yamini (Kar) bt Ashwini Suresh 6-1, 6-0; Spurti bt Akshaya Chandran (TN) 6-2, 6-3; H. Madhumitha (TN) bt Lavanya Saravanan (TN) 6-4, 6-1; Surya bt Saranya Sivani Varma (AP) 6-2, 6-3.

Sindhu bt Sabatini Ankaraju (AP) 6-3, 6-2; Sanjana bt T.G. Janani (TN) 6-1, 6-0; Shree Sanjana w/o K. Nivedha; Prarthana bt A. Ankita 6-0, 6-1; Vaidehi bt Swetha Sreehari (TN) 6-2, 6-4; Zainab bt M. Vidya Purani 6-1, 6-2; Natallia bt Bhavani Ravisankar (TN) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.
Goalless draw

Madras Blues and State Bank of India figured in a goalless draw in the senior division hockey league championship at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium on Tuesday.
SRM takes title

SRM University defeated Thitachery VC 21-19, 21-19 in the final of the three-day 10th Republic Day Puducherry State-level open beach volleyball men’s tournament, organised by the Karaikal Regional Sports Development Centre, at Thitachery (Nagapattinam) on Monday.

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