Kanpur Superstars outplay Gorakhpur Lions by 37 runs

Kanpur: Kanpur Superstars outplayed Gorakhpur Lions by 37 runs in their last league match of ongoing T-20 League here at Green Park Stadium on Tuesday.The result failed to make any impact on semifinal slots as Kashi Rudras had already booked fourth berth defeating Lucknow Falcons in the first match and obtained a clear difference of 3 points in the points table. With this victory, Kanpur team collected 7 points. Kashi has earned 8 points and have to play two more lmatches.Since this match has only academic value, both the teams adopted different approaches. Kanpur decided to bat first and plundered 212 runs for the loss of 4 wickets with the help of Sameer Rizvi’s fine century (104). Gorakhpur Lions, in reply, scored 7 for 175 runs. Sameer Rizvi was adjudged as Man of the match.For Gorakhpur team Siddharth Sarvan Yadav hit 50 runs before giving a return catch to Jasmer Dhankar. He hit 6 boundaries and 3 sixes in 27 balls. Abhishek Goswami scored 41 runs before giving a return catch to Vineet Panwar. Opener Dhruv Jurel also chipped 29 runs.Score board: Gorakhpur Lions- Dhruv Jurel c V Panwar b J Dhankar 29,Siddharth Sarvan Yadav c & b J Dhankar 50, Abhishek Goswamic & b V Panwar 41, Sameer Chaudhary c S Tomar b K Yadav 12, Yashowardhan singh c A Singh b K Yadav 12, Shivam Sharma run out 6, Vijay Kumar no 16, Rishav Rai c Sameer b Ajay Kumar 2, Abdul Rehman VI0Fall of Wkts: 1-64,2-85,3-119,4-142, 5-152,6-156,7-170Bowling-- Vineet panwar 4-0-24-1; Ajay KumarIII 4-0-43-1 ;Satnam Sinh 1-0-15-0; Kartikeya Yadav 4-0-22-2; Jasmer Dhankar 4-0-37-2; Shanu Saini 3-0-32-0
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