Crazy Rangers XI winTSH Challengers Trophy

Kanpur: Crazy Rangers XI won first Azad Kumar Jain TSH Challengers Trophy defeating Mayur Miracles by 2 runs in a thrilling final held here at BCA ground on Thursday evening. For Crazy Rangers, Shaurya Singh was the best performer as he first scored 52 runs and thereafter picked two wickets for 27 runs. Rangers batting first posted a total of 166 runs in 20 overs. For Mayur Miracles Arijit Dubey and Kunal Nishad picked 3 and 2 wickets respectively.Mayur Miracles in reply could collect 164 runs in 20 overs. DhananjayYadav hit highest 75 runs. For Rangers besides Shaurya Singh , Saurabh Tripathi and Shivam shukla both picked two wickets each. Shaurya Singhwas adjudged as man of the match and player of the tournament. Dhananjay Yadav and Divya Prakash were adjudged as best batsman and bowler of the tournament.

Brief score: Crazy Rangers – 7 for 166 ( Shaurya Singh 52, Abhishek Yadav 37, Raunak Singh 26no, Arijit Dubey 3 for 19, Kunal Nishad 2 for 33) Mayur Miracles 8 for 164 ( Dhananjay Yadav 75, Shubham Chaudhary 29, Shaurya Singh 2 for 27, Saurabh Tripathi 2 for 36, Kunal Nishad 2 for 33)GPL league – Malik lions, Crazy Crowd and Allrounders XI defeated their rivals and collected full points in the GPL cricket league on Friday.Brief score: Malik Lions beat Éclair Zafran by 9 wkts, Zafran Éclair – 5 for 219 ( Vishal Jain 118, Ashwani Kohli 31, Vikky 2 for 29, Pulkit Lohati 2 for 45) Malik Lions – 1 for 222 ( Pulkit Lohati 48, Ketan Agrwal 109 no, Aviral Sharma 57no, Abhishek Singh 1 for 49) MOM – Ketan AgarwalCrazy Crown Blasters beat Spujblanders Challengers by 5 wickets. Spujblanders Challengers-6for 174 ( Mohit Agarwal 41, Jasmeet Singh 22, Vaibhav Agarwal 21, Saurabh Agarwal 51 no, Jai Bhargava 20 no Sumit Dhawan 2 for 36, Gurmeet 1 for 36) Crazy Crown Blasters 5 for 176 ( Gurmeet 95 no, Amit Jain 33, Arjun Kohli 2 for 31, Jai Bhargav 2 for 36) MOM – GurmeetAllrounders beat Fortune fighters by 8 wickets. Fortune Fighters – 6 for 222 ( Manav Luthara 63, Gagandeep Singh 59, Prashant 26, Nishant Saxena 20, Tushal Syal 2 for 21, Sunny 2 for 41) Allrounds XI—2 for 244 (Sunny 97, Tushal Syal 32, Sahaj Agarwal 69no, Gagandeep Singh 1for 46, Manav Luthra 1 for 71 ) MOM—1 for 71)Badminton Academy inaugurated: General secretary of UP Olympic Association, Anandeshwar Pandey inaugurated Net Crusher Badminton Academy at Ram Kripa Estate Mainawati Marg on Thursday evening. Shuttlers at lower level used plastic shuttles and in big events they failed to establish the coordination of flight of feather shuttles. He hoped that this academy would prepare national level players.Founder Pooja Khatri and coach Rahul Shukla stated that the academy had two courts and stands for around 200 badminton lovers.