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Big win for Madras Cricket Club

Chennai: Madras Cricket Club, fielding Olympian Mohammad Riaz, State veterans Appiah and Shanmugam along with the evergreen goal-tender for two decades, Pannir Selvam, overwhelmed The Hindu HC 6-2 in the annual hockey fixture that precedes the Murugappa Gold Cup tournament on Wednesday. MCC led 5-0 at half-time.

The dominance displayed by MCC was pronounced, and reflected in the three-in-a-row goals show by guest player Sudarshan.

Sanjay Kulwadi had put the team ahead and Appiah netted the fifth in his inimitable style.

Determined to do better in the second half, The Hindu commanded the exchanges and struck twice to reduce the leeway.

Midfielder Brian and striker Balaji found the mark before Riaz completed the tally for MCC.

T.G. Thyagarajan, President, Madras Cricket Club, was the chief guest, and the teams were presented to him by the Organising Secretary, Arun Murugappan.

Natl. racing final round

The sixth and final round of the JK Tyre National racing championship begins at the Irungattukotai Motor Race Track here on Saturday.

After qualifying and the first race in each category on Saturday, the championship will conclude with the final races on Sunday.

Speed NK Racing’s Ashwin Sundar, who won both races in round five, leads the Formula Rolon category with 52 points. Just two points behind Ashwin is Red Rooster’s Gaurav Dalal, who won the championship last year.

In attempting to defend his title, Dalal will battle not just Ashwin, but also independent racer Saran Vikram, who is still in contention with 46 points and three races remaining.

Competition isn’t as heated in the Formula Swift category, where TVS Girling’s Sudarshana Rao, on 70 points, starts the final round 14 points ahead of Wallace Sports’ Prithveen Rajan, needing just eight points from the final two races to clinch the title.

Janani in last eight

T.G. Janani entered the girls’ under-14 quarterfinals of the TVS Tyres-Singaram Pillai State-ranking tennis tournament, beating Kathryn.S. Vanspall 6-3, 7-6(4), in the pre-quarterfinals here.

Other results

Under-14: Pre-quarterfinals: Lavanya Saravanan bt M. Sisina 6-1, 6-3; R. Sai Aventika bt Tharunika Gopi 6-0, 6-2; Reshma Ganapathy bt S. Mahalakshmi 6-4, 6-0; S. Praveena bt Kavya Balasubramanian 6-1, 6-2; M. Prithika Rani bt Swetha Premkumar 6-1, 6-1; Janis.I. Anjeline bt Likhitha 6-1, 6-2; A. Ankitha bt Shreya Mani 6-1, 6-4.

First round: Sisina bt R. Shraveena 6-0, 6-0; Tharunika bt M. Aishwarya 6-2, 6-1; Kathryn bt T. Shreya Shree 6-1, 7-6 (3); Mahalakshmi bt V.J. Varshini 6-2, 6-0; Kavya bt Priyanka Mahadevan 6-2, 6-2; Likhitha bt Abhinaya Rangarajan 6-2, 6-0; Shreya bt Thara Philip 6-2, 6-2.

Under-12: First round: Likhitha bt Rishika Ravi 6-2, 6-0; S. Sowmya bt V. Priyanka 6-1, 6-0; Abinaya bt Gayathri 6-4, 6-0; V.J. Varshini bt R. Anuja 6-1, 6-2; Reshma bt Tharunika 6-1, 6-1; Priyadarshini Raghu bt Shraveena 6-0, 6-0; Michele Joan bt Thara 6-2, 6-2; Shreya bt Abirami 6-0, 6-0.

TN girls start well

Defending champion Tamil Nadu opened its campaign in style in the girls’ section, defeating West Bengal 23-1, 29-1, in the National junior ball badminton championships at Velammal MHSS (Panchetti) here on Wednesday.

Other results:

Boys: Assam bt M.P. 29-13, 29-9; TN bt Gujarat 23-0, 29-1. Girls: Punjab bt Rajasthan 29-3, 29-6.

Karthik and Subramanian win

T. Karthik and Subramanian won the weekly pairs event at the T. Nagar Social Club, with a score of 63.94 per cent playing East-West.

A. Sridhar and T.M. Suri won from the North-South direction with a score of 60.42 per cent.

Other positions:

East-West: 2. Raghuraman and S. Kailasam; 3. Chandramouli and R. Vijayaraghavan. North-South: 2. P. S. Santhanam and V. Krishnan; 3. L. Subramanian and Ms Padmini Diwa.

Basketball tournament

The CBSE Cluster V basketball tournament will be held at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (K. K. Nagar) from October 5 to 7. Schools from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry are eligible to participate.

26 boys’ teams and 24 girls’ teams will take part in the tournament.

Those who finish in the top two in the boys’ and girls’ sections will take part in the National-level tournament to be held at Ludhiana from Dec. 13 to 17.

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