Saravanan’s good spell goes in vain

Batting first, Ordnance could only muster 100 runs before getting bowled out. But it gave Royal Enfield a run for its money in the second phase, thanks to Saravanan’s five-wicket haul. The victor however got to its target, in 21.5 overs. In another duel, Wheels India defeated Ashok Leyland (Ennore) by four wickets.

Brief scores: Group A: Ashok Leyland (Ennore) 175 for 6 in 30 overs (C Bernard Felix 29, BM Balu Rajkumar 45, T Muniyandi 35, D Krishna Kumar 28*, D Alexander David Raj 3/55) lost to Wheels India 176 for 6 in 23.5 overs (C Sathiya Kumar 55, M Sakthivel 32, D Alexander David Raj 59);

Ordnance Clothing Factory 100 all-out in 27 overs (N Saravanan 34, M Prashanth 4/22, C Dilli Babu 3/13) lost to Royal Enfield 101 for 9 in 21.5 overs (A Kumar 38, M Kaleeswaran 27, N Saravanan 5/34);

Group B: MFL 156 all-out in 28.5 overs (M Murali 38, M Vaigopalsamy 4/27) lost to Lucas TVS 159 for 7 in 26.4 Overs (U Vinoth Kannan 37, M Ramesh 26, Ganesh Aridoss 4/45).