Kanpur: Fine half centuries of Aadesh and Samanvay helped KCA XI beat NRCA Lucknow XI by 50 runs and pushed their team to step in the quarter-final of the fourth late Om Prakash Pathak memorial cricket tournament played at KK Boarding ground Kannauj on Wednesday.
KCA XI, batting first, scored 7 for 200 in 25 overs. Aadesh, Samanvay and Mohd Sharim scored 60, unbeaten 57 and 38 runs respectively for their team. Varun picked 3 wickets for the Lucknow team. In reply NRCA Lucknow XI could collect 150 runs. Jivesh scored 59 runs. Sharim bagged 2 wickets for Kanpur. Sharim was later adjudged as man of the match.
Brief score
KCA XI-7 for 200 (Aadesh 60, Mohd Sharim 38, Samvay Dixit 57 no, Varun 3 for 27), NRCA Lkw XI-150 (Jivesh 59, Mufeesh 19, Shashank Awasthi 3 for 24, Rishabh 2 for 12, Mohd Sharim 2 for 34).
KDMA league: Kanpur Sporting Union, Rolland and Kanpur Grand Club outplayed their rival teams and collected full points in the KDMA league matches held at different grounds on Wednesday.
Brief score: Ram Lakhan ground-Kanpur Sporting Union beat Adarsh Club by 7 wkts. Adarsh Club-82 (Devesh Tiwari 20, Jitendra Gautam 12, Saurabh Yadav 6 for 23, Mohd Hashim 2 for 21) Kanpur Sporting Union-3 for 83 (Gaurav Mishra 26, Rahul Gupta 32no, Afaq Siddiqui 2 for 14).
PAC ground-Rolland Club beat Kherapati Club by 9 wkts. Kherapati Club-112 (Aditya Shukla 20, Alok 23no, Aryan Diwakar 3 for 21, Anuj Kumar 2 for 23, Deepak Verma 2 for 23) Rolland Club-1 for 113 (Tanishq Gupta 35, Utkarsh Yadav 51no, Aryan Saxena 1 for 21).
Ramkali ground-Kanpur Grand beat Golden Sporting by 118 runs. Kanpur Grand Club-5 for 229 (Priyansh Kumar 49, Divyansh Mishra 30, Dev Khas 78 no, Astik 1 for 30, Luvkush Yadav 1 for 38) Golden Sporting-111 (Piyush Nath 40, Aman Chaturvedi 21, Divyansh Mishra 4 for 26, Uma Shankar 3 for 10, Virat Singh 2 for 13).