Rolland Club drub Sky Club by 76 runs in final, win second Samuel Bali cricket tournament

Kanpur: Rolland Club drubbed the challenge of Sky Club by 76 runs in the final and won the second Samuel Bali & BD cricket tournament which concluded at the RPCA ground here on Wednesday.

Rolland Club, batting first, scored 178 runs in 33.3 overs and thereafter wrapped the innings of Sky Club on 102 runs. After the final, chief guest Himanshu Pradhan, manager Jwala Devi School, presented trophies to the winner and runner up teams. Manish Verma and Amrit Sachan were adjudged as best batsman and bowler respectively while Amrit Sachan was adjudged as player of the tournament.

Brief score: Rolland Club-178 (Manish Verma 50, Saurabh Mishra 33, Gopal Singh 23, Vijay Verma 20, Ankit Madhav Gupta 4 for 47, Ankit Sachan 3 for 33), Sky Club-102 (Veer Singh 28 no, Sumit Vashisht 5 for 17, Satvik Sharma 3 for 19, Aryan Diwakar 2 for 29).

Moti Ram Advocate Cricket-Bhola Singh and Arun Awasthi XI won their matches of the late Moti Ram U-15 cricket tournament played here on Wednesday.

Brief score: Rashtriya ground: Bhola Singh XI beat Bhatnagar XI by 3 wkts. ML Bhatnagar XI-170 (Tanush Awasthi 83, Shaurya Upadhyaya 29, Raj Singh 24, Sajal Srivastava 4 for 6, Anand Tripathi 2 for 34), Bhola Singh XI-7 for 173 (Abhay Kumar 49, Sajal Srivastava 20, Amarendra 66 no, Raj Singh 3 for 22).

Kanpur South ground: Arun Awasthi XI defeated Narendra Tiwari XI by 83 runs. Arun Awasthi XI-195 (Kanha Bhatia 116, Skand Sengar 4 for 4, Jyotirmoy Dwivedi 2 for 20) Narendra Tiwari XI-112 (Shikhar Srivastava 23, Ansh Gaur 4 for 11, Anant Kumar 2 for 15).

KDMA league: Wanders Club, National Youth and Friends Union Clubs won their league matches and collected full points on Wednesday.

Brief score: PAC ground-Wanders Club beat Graduate Club by 7 wickets. Graduate Club-187 (Abdul Altaf Khan 66, Shivansh Singh 21, Hemendra Yadav 2 for 22, Neelesh Kaul 2 for 22, Rohit Kumar 2 for 23, Yash Yadav 2 for 47) Wanders Club-3 for 188 (Mohd Obaid 36, Neelesh Kaul 86, Abhay Yadav 50 no, Ayush Kumar Nishad 1 for 34).

Gems ground-National Youth drubbed Superior Spirit by 23 runs. National Youth-204 (Yash Pal 42, Devansh Swarup 34, Arman Tiwari 26, Abhishek Rai 31 no, Nishkarsh Srivastava 2 for 30, Shranjul Tiwari 2 for 34, Madhav Sharma 2 for 42) Superior Spirit-181 (Kumar Abhinav 52, Amit Bhagat 42, Madhav Sharma 30, Dhanesh Chauhan 3 for 36, Divyanshu Pandey 2 for 30).

Sapru ground-Friends Union defeated Kanpur Starlet by 7 wkts. Kanpur Starlet-119 (Devendra Yadav 27, Shyam Kumar 23, Aditya Singh 3 for 13, Anupam Tiwari 2 for 11), Friends Union 3 for 122 (Ayush Mandhani 56 no, Sahil Verma 41 no, Vikas Singh 2 for 26).