Kanpur: Khendekar XI will clash with Diamond Club in the final of the Second Ajay Sharma T-20 Cricket Tournament for the V Guard Trophy at Kanpur South ground on Saturday.
In the first semifinal, Khandekar XI defeated Rovers Club by 7 runs. Invited to bat first, Khandekar XI scored 146 runs in 19 overs. In response, Rovers Club crumbled on 139 runs in 19.4 overs. In the second semifinal, Diamond Club defeated Olympics Club by 6 wickets. Opting to bat first, Olympics Club accumulated 138 runs in 19.3 overs. Chasing the target, Diamond Club achieved the required 139 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 18.5 overs.
Brief scores: Khandekar XI: 146 (Anant Nandan 31, Dipanshu Singh 21, Almas Shaukat 13, Mukul Yadav 16; Shivam 1/28, Faiz Ahmad 1/20, Noorain Ali 3/20, Anmol Pandey 2/36, Himanshu 1/25, Mohd Aquib 1/16)
Rovers Club: 139 (Salman Khurshid 30, Pankaj Kumar 22, Yash Upadhyaya 27, Ayush Kumar 10*; Dipanshu Singh 3/33, Himanshu Pratap 3/21, Ishan Khanna 1/19, Aditya 1/25)
Player of the Match: Dipanshu Singh (Khandekar XI)
Olympics Club: 138 (Sumit 30, Shubham Chaudhary 10, Aman Singh 27, Nikhil Rao 30, Saurabh 34; Akhil Kashyap 1/22, Abhijeet Singh 3/13, Aditya Singh 1/17, Suvrat 1/30, Divyanshu 1/3)
Diamond Club: 4/139 (Sachin Tiwari 81*, Devansh Pathak 11, Divyanshu Yadav 21, Akhil Kr 11; Vaibhav Pal 1/17, Abhishek Yadav 3/25)
Player of the Match: Sachin Tiwari
Basketball: IIT Campus Club overwhelmed ABC Club in a high-scoring encounter, winning 97-55 in the district senior basketball championship 2024 played at IIT-Kanpur court on Friday.
Other results in the men's category: CSJMU (B) trounced Maratha Regiment (B) 69-20
CSJMU (B) defeated HBTU 49-38; women's category: CSJMU beat IIT 42-21;
CSJMU defeated HBTU (A) 35-04; CSJMU overcame HBTU (B) 50-00