Rovers Club defeat Khandekar Academy by 76 runs, enter final

Kanpur: Faiz Ahmad and Kamil Khan’s knock of 71 and 72 runs respectively helped Rovers Club beat Khandekar Academy by 76 runs and sailed into the final of Dinesh Mishra memorial T-20 cricket tournament played at the Palika stadium on Thursday.Rovers Club, batting first, posted a total of 194 runs in 19.3 overs. Faiz Ahmad and Kamil Khan were the main scorers. Shyam, Himanshu and Abhishek of the Academy bagged 3 wickets each. Khandekar Academy in reply mustered 118 runs in 16 overs and lost the match. Muzzamil scored the highest 52 runs for the Academy. For Rovers Club, Sachin picked 3 wickets while Rishabh and Deepak Yadav took 2 wickets each.Brief Score:Rovers Club-194 (Faiz Ahmad 71, Kamil Khan 72, Rishabh Rai 12, Pankul Kumar 24, Shivam 3 for 31, Himanshu 3 for 37, Abhishek Jaiswal 3 for 33, Ishan Khanna 1 for 46) Khandekar Academy–118 Abhay 10, Amrit Raj 10, Muzzamil 52, Shivam Upadhyaya 12, Sachin 3 for 16, Aqib Abbas 1 for 22, Rishabh Rai 2 for 25, Deepak Yadav 2 for 21, Noorain Ali 2 for 14).KDMA league- Kanpur Eaglet, Bachelors, Friends Sporting, Southern and Kanpur Gymkhana defeated their rival teams in KDMA league matches held at different grounds on Thursday. Brief score:HAL ground-Kanpur Eaglet beat Kanpur Starlet by 4 wickets. Kanpur Starlet-8 for 168 (Aftab 47, Rajal Srivastava 46, Imran Ahmad 24, Rohit 2 for 25, Husain Raza 2 for 28) Kanpur Eaglet- 6 for 169 (Hasan Raza 74, Satya Prakash Yadav 36, Anmol Tiwari 27, Anshul Tekchandani 2 for 23, Devendra Kumar Yadav 2 for 28).Bhatt ground-Bachelors Club outplayed National Club by 9 wickets. National Club-109 (Diwakar Singh 29, Faiz Khan 21, Devansh Tiwari 4 for 14, Deepak Kumar Rana 2 for 12,) Bachelors Club-1 for 110 (Devansh Tiwari 64no, Inam-ul Haq 30, Yash Tiwari 1 for 29).Sapru ground-Friends Sporting beat Paramount Club by 7 wickets. Paramount Club-113, Aqib Abbasi 31, Ayan Ahmad 22, Anant Bajpai 3 for 22, Bharat Pandey 3 for 29, Rahul Verma 2 for 14) Friends Sporting-3 for 114 (Mohd Amir 49, Karan Yadav 37, Sahil 2 for 12).Chandra ground- Southern Club humbled Rashtriya Youth by 147 runs. Southern Club-223 (Suraj Yadav 75, Ayan Raini 33, Anurag Shukla 42, Divyanshu Chitranshi 4 for 32, Ashutosh Pandey4 for 62, ) Rashtriya Youth-76 (Atul Yadav 48no, Krishna Awasthi 3 for 19, Sumit Pal 3 for 25, Suraj Yadav 2 for 13).Ram Kali ground-Kanpur Gymkhana beat Friends Club by 7 runs. Kanpur Gymkhana- 8 for 13 8(Devansh Srivastava 56, Lokesh Sahu 25, Suraj Yadav 3 for 27, Atharva Gupta 3 for 32,) Friends Club-131 (Vicky Manjhi 45, Shailendra Verma 44.