Kanpur: Priyanshu Rawat and Rituraj Singh's fine centuries powered Winners club to a 4-wicket victory over Khandekar Cricket Academy in the KDMA league match at Everest ground on Thursday. Khandekar Academy, opting to bat first, put up a solid score of 258 in 33.5 overs with ranji trophy player Almas Shauqat playing a remarkable innings of 131 runs. Winners club comfortably chased down the target in 26 overs. Priyanshu Rawat and Rituraj Singh's knocks of 104 and 123 runs respectively ensured the win, with Winners club reaching 260 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 26 overs.
In another league match, host PAC outperformed Graduate club by 6 wickets. Graduate club, sent in to bat, posted 6 for 289 and PAC chased successfully, scoring 292 runs for the loss of 4 wickets. Sandeep Mittal remained unbeaten with a commanding 135 runs for the winners.
Vedic Union claimed victory against all women club ‘Wonder Women club' by 7 wickets in another league clash held at Bhatt ground.
Brief scores:
Khandekar Cricket Academy – 258 (Mukul Yadav 32, Abhishek Jaiswal 23, Almas Shauqat 131, Aditya Dixit 3 for 49, Vishal Yadav 2 for 36, Priyanshu Rawat 2 for 49)
Winners club – 6 for 260 (Priyanshu Rawat 104, Rituraj Singh 123, Rishabh Rajput 2 for 27, Abhishek Jaiswal 2 for 34)
Graduate club – 6 for 289 (Devashish Srivastava 49, Bilal Firoz 45, Yuvraj Pandey 41, Tanishq Sharma 31, Vinayak Singh 89 not out, Adarsh Srivastava 2 for 59, Shivendra Srivastava 2 for 69)
PAC – 4 for 292 (Virat Jaiswal 54, Mayank Singh 53, Anand Dubey 25, Sandeep Mittal 135 not out, Devashish Srivastava 1 for 12)
Wonder Women club – 8 for 133 (Shibu Singh Pal 56, Bhavi Singh Patel 31, Vikas Pathak 3 for 15, Neerav Sachan 2 for 17)
Vedic Union – 3 for 137 (Anant Sharma 52, Prithvi Yadav 21, Tanush Awasthi 23, Asit Yadav 37 not out, Priyanshi Singh 2 for 15)