KDMA league: Avero Club drub Amar Club

Kanpur: Abhinav Sharma’s fine century (105 runs) helped

Avero Club

beat

Amar Club

by a big margin of 156 runs and booked a berth in the knock-out phase in KDMA league played here on Wednesday.Avero Club, batting first at the HAL ground, posted a sound score of 8 for 276 in 40 overs. Abhinav Sharma,

Atul Ranjan

and Aviral Rahul contributed 54, 105 and 45 runs respectively. Mayank Sharma picked 3 wickets.Amar Club in reply could not bear the pressure of a big score and collapsed on 120 runs. Atul Ranjan scored 49 runs and Tanay Kapoor and Sparsh Tiwari bagged 3 and 2 wickets respectively.In another match, Ashoka Jyoti Club drubbed South Gymkhana by 2 wickets and moved into the knock-out phase. South Gymkhana, deciding to bat first, scored 9 for 173. In reply, Ashoka Jyoti hit 176 runs for the loss of 8 wickets and earned the gate pass of knockout phase.In the third match of the day played at the Sapru ground, BCA outplayed Gandhi Gram Club by 8 wickets. Gandhi Gram, batting first, scored 158 runs and BCA Club hit the required 164 runs for the loss of two wickets in 25.5 overs.Brief scoreAvero Club-8 for 276 (Atul Ranjan 54, Abhinav Sharma 105, Aviral Rahul 45no, Mayank Sharma 3 for 34, Aman Yadav 2 for 29), Amar Club-120 (Atul Ranjan 49, Ujjwal Rajput 20, Tanay Kapoor 3 for 19, Sparsh Tiwari 2 for 6).South Gymkhana-9 for 173 (Brijesh Kumar Rai 32, Harsh Singh 22, Sachin Gupta 21, Gurvinder Singh 2 for 21, Yuvraj Singh 2 for 30) Ashoka Jyoti-8 for 176 (Maninder Singh 53, Vineet Monga 34, Gurvinder Singh 28, Ashish Bajpai 3 for 34, Satyendra 2 for 24).Gandhi Gram Club-158 (Tarun Dwivedi 25, Aditya Bhushan 68no, Yogesh Singh 3 for 13, Akash Gaur 3 for 41, Abhishek Jaiswal 2 for 22 ) BCA-2 for 164 (Akash Gaur 70, Brajendra Singh 74no, Sachin Yadav 1 for 28)