Local League: Sivakumaran helps Gopalapuram win

National was restricted to 134 in 24.4 overs courtesy Sivakumaran’s five-wicket haul. The winner sailed to the target in 21.2 overs with Nivethan Radhakrishnan top-scoring with 65 not out. 

Brief scores: Global Associates 157 all out in 28.4 overs (Ram Aravind 82, Santosh kumaran 3/42, S Partha sarathy 3/41) lost to YSCA A 158 for 6 in 28.5 overs (G Nagarajan 32, V Naveen Kumar 52)

Chennai Customs 78 all out in 20.3 overs (Franklin 5/11, D Karthik 3/24) lost to Friends CC 82 for 4 in 9 overs (Karthikeyan 3/27)

National CC 134 all out in 24.4 overs (A Arun Anand 31, S Devaneswaran 31, M Sivakumaran 5/10, Nivethan Radhakrishnan 3/50) lost to Gopalapuram CC 156 for 5 in 21.2 overs (Nivethan Radhakrishnan 65*, Aneesh 30, S Badrinathan 3/38)

P Dinesh Kannan scored an unbeaten century as IBM defeated RR Donnelley by 74 runs in the GR Kuppuswamy Memorial cricket tournament here. 

Dinesh scored 103 runs off 82 balls to propel IBM to 202 for six in 30 overs. IBM later restricted RR Donnelley to 128 runs in 26.5 overs. 

Brief scores: IBM 202 for 6 in 30 overs (P Dinesh Kannan 103*, Sudhakar 28, NG Dinesh 3/38) beat RR Donnelley 128 all-out in 26.5 overs