Green Park Hostel drub MUC by 6 wickets in inaugural match of Kanpur Cricket League

Kanpur: Left-arm bowler Neeraj Kumar's deadly bowling (7 for 15) empowered hosts Green Park Hostel to beat MUC by 6 wickets in the inaugural match of the Kanpur Cricket League, held here on Sunday.Green Park, after winning the toss, invited MUC to bat first. The reason behind it was to exploit the cloudy and heavy atmosphere. They wrapped MUC's innings at 53 runs in 18 overs. Only opener Sourav Jha reached double figures, as he scored 19 runs. Three batsmen did not open their account. Besides Neeraj, Vishnu Saroj bagged 2 wickets for 11 runs.
Green Park, in reply, scored 54 runs, losing 4 wickets in 10.3 overs. Yatharth Nagvanshi scored the highest, 19 runs, for his side. Shubham picked 2 wickets for 7 runs.Earlier in the morning, chief guest Raghubeer Lal (Commissioner Police) inaugurated the league in a colourful opening function. The PAC band presented tunes. Sanjay Kapoor, chairman, KCA, welcomed the chief guest. Former Test cricketer Gopal Sharma, Ankit Rajput, Shashikant Khandekar, Rahul Sapru, Kapil Pandey, all former Ranji Trophy players, and KCA officials were present on this occasion.Brief score: MUC-53 (Sourav Jha 19, Neeraj Kumar 7 for 15, Vishnu Saroj 2 for 11), Green Park Hostel- 4 for 54 (Ajit Yadav 10, Yatharth Nagvanshi 19, Devendra Prajapati 11, Shubham 2 for 7, Sudheer Kumar 1 for 16, Harshit 1 for 16).Sunday League: Patel Properties, Matador Foam, Blue Warriors and Rising Warriors won their matches in the Sunday Cricket League, held here at different grounds on Sunday.HAL gound-Patel Properties beat Kalawati Super Kings by 8 wickets. Kalawati Super Kings-87 (Rahul Singh 34, Pranav 12, Ankul Jain 4 for 12, Shoaib Khan 3 for 19, Sushil Rai 2 for 16). Patel Properties-2 for 88 (Shailendra 26, Om Mishra 26no, Gurmeet 1 for 22). MOM- Ankul Jain.Kamla Club ground-Matador Foam beat Crazy Rangers by 8 runs. Matador Foam-161 (Brajesh Sharma 58, Divyanshu Trivedi 56, Naseeruddin 4 for 19, Bharat Pandey 3 for 31, Raja Nigam 3 for 31), Crazy Rangers-7 for 154 (Ayush Pathak 41, Ayush Shukla 35, Sarvan Jaiswal 21, Raja Nigam 33no, Ritesh Gupta 3 for 30, Mission Gupta 2 for 36). MOM-Ritesh Gupta.Sapru ground-Blue Warriors beat Dam Charges XI by 5 wkts. Dam Charges XI-133 (Devendra 58, Shailendra Shukla 25, Maninder 3 for 22, Ram Singh 2 for 43, Dinesh 2 for 21). Blue Warriors-5 for 134 (Ashish Dayal 37, Manindar 28, Prasoon Dosar 28, Moin Siddiqui 2 for 18). MOM-Maninder.PAC ground-Rising Kanpur Warriors beat Knight Scorchers by 20 runs. Rising Kanpur Warriors-8 for 226 (Karmendra Pandey 52, Avaneet 31, Kunal Pandey 25, Sanjay 36no, Arpit Tiwari 2 for 43, Anurag 2 for 43). Knight Scorchers XI- 206 (Avinash 63, Abhay 49, Gaurav 30, Shiv Pratap 5 for 30, Saurabh Gupta 2 for 58). MOM-Shiv Pratap.