Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) outplayed Ordinance Equipment Factory (OEF) by 12 runs in Red Chief office league of Kanpur Cricket Association played at OEF stadium on Saturday.
HAL put into bat scored 124 runs in 24.1 overs. Opener Arun Mehrotra scored highest 27 runs for his side. For OEF, Manish Yadav and Ved Prakash Vishwakarma both bagged 3 wickets each.
OEF in reply collapsed on 112 runs. Middle order batsman Arun Verma was lone fighter and he chipped 41 runs in team’s run coffer. Their nine batsmen could not reach the double figure, and two of them could not even open their account. For HAL Amir Mazhar and Amod Kumar both captured two wickets each.
Jal Sansthan, in another match of the office league, humbled Kanpur Revenue by a huge margin of 130 runs. Jal Sansthan, batting first, hit 177 for 8 in stipulated 30 overs. Chandra Shekhar hit fine half century. He scored 54 runs hitting 2 sixes and 4 boundaries in 47 balls.
Opener SP Shukla also contributed 47 runs consisting 7 boundaries. Sanjay Dixit and
Jitendra Kumar were successful bowlers of Kanpur Revenue and both took two wickets each.
Kanpur Revenue in reply crashed on mere 47 runs in 13.1 overs. Only Madan Singh Rawat could reach the double figure by scoring 17 runs. Prashant Dixit and Dharam Raj both scalped 3 wickets each.
Brief score
HAL---124 (Arun Mehrotra 27, Amarjeet 18, Amit Arora 10, Javed Asghar 13, Ravi Kumar Singh 10, Manish Kumar Yadav 3 for 27, Ved Prakash Vishwakarma 3 for 20, Vikas 1 for 20, Deependra Singh 1 for 16,) OEF--112 (Lal Bahadur Yadav 20, Arun Verma 41, Yatish Kumar 1 for 25,
Sandeep Sachan 1 for 7, Moloy Das 1 for 15, Amir Mazhar 2 for 11, Javed Ashgar 2 for 14)
Jal Sansthan--177 for 8 (SP Shukla 47, Mohd Arif Khan 16, Vijay Gopal 10, Chandra Shekhar 54, Roshan Bharti 11, Sanjay Dixit 2 for 38, Jitendra Kumar 2 for 15, DK Maurya 1 for 26, Madana Singh Rawat 1 for 18) Kanpur Revenue--47 (Madan Singh Rawat 17, Prashant Dixit 3 for 23, Dharam Raj 3 for 19, Arvind Kumar 2 for 5, Raghvendra Kumar 1 for 0 )