KDMA League: Olympic Club beat Veenus Club

Kanpur: Pritesh Dikshit's unbeaten century and Abhijit Singh's five-wicket haul helped Olympic Club beat Veenus Club by a big margin of 212 runs in KDMA league match held at Kanpur South A Ground on Thursday. Olympic Club, deciding to bat, posted a total of 5 for 289. Thereafter, they wrapped up the innings of Veenus Club for a mere 77 runs.Glory Club, in another match, outplayed Friends Club by 60 runs at PAC Ground. Glory Club, put in to bat, scored 189 runs, and Friends Club, in reply, could collect 9 for 129 runs. Brief score: Olympic Club — 5 for 289 (Akash Yadav 46, Lakshya Yadav 33, Rudraksh Yadav 27, Pritesh Dixit 100 no; Shubham Goswami 2 for 70, Sanskar Sharma 1 for 31). Veenus Club — 77 (Akash Singh 17, Rishabh Prajapati 15; Ahhijeet Singh 5 for 15, Piyush Pal 2 for 15, Aniket Kumar 2 for 20). Glory Club — 189 (Harshit 52, Viraj Bajpai 46, Aman Yadav 33, Virat Gupta 22; Anant 5 for 37, Ayush Kumar 2 for 6). Friends Sporting — 9 for 129 (Bhanu Pratap Singh 49, Anant Shukla 28; Utkarsh 3 for 21, Utkarsh Singh 2 for 13).Tiwari Memorial Inter Academy Cricket: Guru Govind Singh, Kapil Cricket and Blue Star cricket academies defeated their rival teams and earned full points in the first Sunil Tiwari Memorial Under-13 Inter Academy Cricket Tournament matches held at different grounds on Thursday. Guru Govind Singh Ground: Guru Govind Singh Academy beat GDS Academy by 7 wickets. GDS Academy — 97 (Rudra Singh 16, Virat Chauhan 15; Tejas 5 for 31). Guru Govind Singh Academy — 3 for 101 (Mohit Yadav 29 no, Arav Singh 26 no; Shantanu Singh 1 for 10, Anshuman 1 for 12). RPCA Ground: Kapil Cricket Academy beat RPCA by 125 runs. Kapil Academy — 4 for 241 (Prince 61, Aarav Yadav 28, Krishna Yadav 24, Siddharth Sinha 22, Unmukt Singh Rathore 52 no, Kabir Yadav 27 no; Vansh 1 for 23). RPCA — 116 (Kushagra 11, Ayush Nishad 10; Kabir Yadav 3 for 19). Kanpur South B Ground: Blue Star Academy beat Commercial Cricket Academy by 9 wickets. Commercial Academy — 162 (Anant Kumar Mishra 50, Kartikeya Yadav 38, Sumit Kumar 24; Nayan Singh 3 for 19, Lavish Gupta 39, Rudra Rawat 84 no).Dhaneshwari Devi Cricket: Bharat Club defeated Graduate Club by 9 runs in a quarter-final tie and sailed into semi-final of Dhaneshwari Devi Memorial Cricket Tournament, at Chandra Cricket Academy Ground on Thursday. Bharat posted a total of 8 for 265 runs with the help of Prince's 133 runs. Graduate Club, in reply, could score 256 runs. tnn