Kanpur: Paramount Club overwhelmed Southern Club by a substantial margin of 123 runs, advancing to the semi-final of first Jaipal Singh Memorial cricket tournament at Rashtriya ground on Tuesday.
Paramount Club, batting first, amassed 295 runs in 35 overs. Samraddh Dubey and Mohib Ansari were principal scorers, contributing 72 and 63 runs respectively. Southern club managed merely 172 runs in response.
Brief score: Paramount club—8 for 295 (Samraddha Dubey 72, Mohib Ansari 63, Atif Aslam 57, Arush Kashyap 46, Prakhar Dubey 2 for 29, Adarsh Tripathi 2 for 34, Gaurav Yadav 2 for 51)
Southern club—172 (Krishna Bali 42, Gaurav Yadav 34, Himanshu 2 for 16, Ayan Ahmad 2 for 24)
KDMA league—Priyanshu Rawat's century (101) proved insufficient as Winners club succumbed to host Kanpur South by 6 wickets in KDMA A division league tie on Tuesday. Rashtriya Youth and MUC secured victories in B division league matches.
Kanpur South Ground: Winners club—176 (Priyanshu Rawat 101, Sarvan Jaiswal 23, Mishon Abbas 3 for 33, Anuj Pal 2 for 28) Kanpur South 4 for 177 (Jatin Chauhan 54, Sagar Sharma 42, Lakshya Singh 41, Mohd Basit 21 no, Sarvan Jaiswal 1 for 7, Saurabh Yadav 1 for 24)
Bhatt Ground: Rashtriya Youth vanquished Friends sporting by 240 runs. Rashtriya Youth—9 for 283 (Kushal 88, Abhay Pandey 25, Krishna Yadav 4 for 48, Sandeep Pal 2 for 45) Friends sporting—43 (Abhay Pandey 6 for 10, Sonika 3 for 11) Sapru ground: MUC prevailed over Unique club by 4 wickets. Unique club—95 (Yash Seth 34, Omkar 3 for 42, Saurabh 2 for 7, Sajal Srivastava 2 for 10) MUC—6 for 99 (Aniket Kumar 22, Sudhir Kumar 31 no, Saurabh Jha 26 no, Tarundeep 1 for 17, Ayush Nigam 3 for 38, Adnan 2 for 18)
Registration date extended: Kanpur Cricket Association has extended the registration date for Kanpur Premier League until Jan 24. According to secretary KCA, Kaushal Kumar Singh, registration forms are available online. Cricketers must submit completed forms with fees at KCA office.