Chess, cricket glory for Kanpur schools

Kanpur: Pt Deen Dayal Vidyalaya is leading in the boys group of Kanpur Sahodya School inter-school chess championship being played at Prabhat Senior Secondary School, Sarvodya Nagar, on Friday. After three rounds on day one in the boys group, Deen Dayal School is leading with 6 points. DPS Azad Nagar and Gardenia Public School are at second and third place with 5 and 4 points respectively.
In the girls group, Sanatan Dharam Vidyalaya, JK Singhania, and Nurture Schools all have 6 points after three rounds. Earlier, chief guest Sanjeev Pathak, former international TT player, inaugurated the two-day event. According to Dilip Srivastava, secretary of Kanpur Chess Association, 90 boys from 18 schools and 75 girls from 15 schools are participating. The last two rounds will be played on Saturday.
Sahodaya School Zone – B girls chess – Har Milap Mission School is leading with 6 points in Kanpur Sahodya School Zone B (class 6 to 8th) chess championship being held at Sriram Public School, Kidwai Nagar, on Friday. Archies Higher Secondary, UP Kirana, Sriram Education Center Panki and Dr V Swarup Jajmau are jointly at second place with 5 points after three rounds. Four schools are jointly at third place with 4 points. Around 125 girls of 22 CBSE schools of Zone B are participating in this event, which was inaugurated by Pratibha Asthana, principal of the host school.
Cricket -- Rashtriya Youth, Kesco, City, and Kherapati Club defeated their rival teams at different grounds and collected full points in KDMA cricket league being played here on Friday.
Brief score: Kanpur South ground—Rashtriya Youth beat Yashraj Cricket Academy by 7 wickets. Yashraj Cricket Academy 9 for 111 (Vivek Kushwaha 18, Sonika Kushwaha 3 for 22, Vedic Dixit 2 for 3, Hari Om Yadav 2 for 16, Abay Pandey 2 for 22), Rashtriya Youth Club 3 for 115 (Soumitra Pal 35, Vedic Dixit 24, Hari Om Yadav 24, Shlok Verma 1 for 19).
Sapru ground – Kesco defeated Kings Club by 119 runs. Kesco 8 for 285 (Jai Malhotra 49, Vishnu Kumar 44, Mayur Tiwari 42, Hashmat Husain 39, Pradeep Tiwari 29, Anuj Gupta 26, Rudransh Saxena 2 for 21, Ansh Verma 2 for 53), Kings Club 166 (Pawan Gupta 57, Rehan Ahmad 39, Shivam Yadav 28, Ram Prakash 3 for 25, Mayur Tiwari 3 for 35, Anuj Gupta 2 for 19).
HAL ground – City Club humbled Wonder Women Club by 2 wickets. Wonder Women 9 for 136 (Bhavi Singh Parihar 55no, Shashank Pal 3 for 25, Utkarsh Sharma 2 for 23), City Club 8 for 137 (Anant Agnihotri 3, Utkarsh Sharma 15no, Diksha Kushwaha 2 for 29, Priyanshi Singh 2 for 32).
RL ground—Kherapati Club beat Eleven Star by 169 runs. Kherapati Club 9 for 325 (Shashank Singh 73, Virat Singh 58, Gurmeet Singh 34, Sahil Katiyar 60no, Sharad Yadav 3 for 52), Eleven Star 156 (Vansh Yagnik 33, Rohit Kumar 32, Sharad Yadav 26, Abbas Ali 32no, Aryan Saxena 4 for 21).