U-19 cricket: Madhya Pradesh drubs Railways by 27 runs

KANPUR: Madhya Pradesh humbled Railways by 27 runs in Central zone under-19 Vinoo Mankad trophy league match played at Green Park stadium here on Monday.
MP, with this match, completed its all league matches and collected 8 points from 5 matches. Out of 5 matches, MP won just two and lost three matches. On the other hand, Railways has 4 points from 4 ties, and it had lost three matches.Now, it has to play one more match. Like MP team, Rajasthan too completed its all league matches, and collected 12 points with 3 wins and two losses.
Host UP is at top place with 16 points. The host team has so far played four matches and recorded win in all of them. Vidarbha has 12 points from 4 matches and Chhattisgarh still waiting to open its account.
Madhya Pradesh team in the morning decided to bat first and posted a total of 193 runs. In reply, the Railways batsmen failed to click once again and despite their best effort could collect 166 runs and lost the match.
For MP, Siddharth Patidar was the highest scorer with 36 runs. Apart from him, Sanket Srivastava and Rahul Chandrol (31) and Ankush Singh (27) were the other main scorers. For Railways, V Meena captured 4 wickets for 33 runs. Yuvraj, S Mittal and Aditya Tomar took one wicket each.
Railways innings revolved between Rudrapratim Nayek and Kartikeya Kushwaha.
Brief score
MP: 193 (Nikhil Mishra 18, Siddharth Patidar 36, Ankush Singh 27, Yash Dubey 18, Sanket Srivastava 30, Rahul Batham 11, Yuvraj 1 for 44, S Mittal 1 for 12, Aditya Tomar 1 for 27, V Meena 4 for 33)
Railways innings : 166 (Rudrapratim Nayek 30, V Meena 15, Kartikeya Kushwaha 73, MA Khan 2 for 23, Rajarshi Srivastava 2 for 35, Pankaj Patel 2 for 33, Sagar sharma 3 for 31)