Kanpur: Kherepati club defeated National Youth club by 38 runs in the second semi-final and sailed into the final of 15th Krishna Sahay Saxena Memorial Cricket tournament being played here at Palika stadium on Thursday.
They will clash in the final with YMCC on Friday.
Deciding to bat first Kherepati club scored 201 runs. Shashank Singh hit the highest 56 runs for his side.
For National Youth Anuj sahu bagged 3 wickets.
National Youth in reply could collect 163 runs with the help of Monish Gautam’s half century (52).
Balram Verma of YMCC caused maximum damage claiming 4 wickets for 40 runs.
Brief score:Kherepati club—201 (Gurmeet Singh 14,Aryan Saxena 25,Shashank Singh 56,Alok Srivastava 38,Ripul Anand 22,Anuj Sahu 3 for 17,Manish Kumar 2 for 47,Ashish Bhatt 1 for 44, Keshav 1 for 28, Ashish Yadav 1 for 24)
National Youth –163 ( Vansh Nigam 22, Suraj Singh 22, Vaibhav Bhadoria 37,Monish Gautam52, Ashish Yadav 13, Balram Verma 4 for 40, Aryan Saxena 2 for 9,Gurmeet Singh 2 for 31, Lun Pandey 1 for 33).