Kanpur clubs secure league victories

Kanpur: Ishan Singh's fine performance with bat and ball (43 runs and 4 wickets) helped Olympic Club beat Reserve Bank of India by 2 runs in KDMA league match played here at Everest ground on Monday. Olympic Club batting first collected 193 runs with the help of Lakshya Yadav's unbeaten knock of 96 runs and thereafter they successfully defended it by restricting the innings of Reserve Bank of India on 191 runs.

In other league matches, Friends Club, City Club, Kesco and KCC also posted victories over their rivals.

Brief scores: Olympic Club 4 for 193 (Ishan Singh 43, Lakshya Yadav 96 no, Nikhil Vishwakarma 2 for 36)

Reserve Bank of India 9 for 191 (Rajnish Kumar 71, Satish Jaiswal 36, Ishan Singh 4 for 37, Piyush Pal 3 for 22)

Friends Sporting 123 (Ujjwal Singh 28, Anant Shukla 27, Anshul Yadav 3 for 22, Aditya Pal 2 for 12, Abhishek Kumar Tiwari 3 for 24)

Civils Club 97 (Gauav 18, Abhishek Kumar Tiwari 16 no, Sandeep Pal 4 for 36, Anant Shukla 4 for 38)

HAL ground – City Club beat Vedic Union by 40 runs.

City club 194 (Priyanshu Gupta 43, Shashank Pal 4 no, Vikas Pathak 3 for 48, Neerav Sachan 2 for 30, Hardik Pathak 2 for 44)

Vedic Union 155 (Tanush Awasthi 31, Asit Yadav 29, Rudra Singh 22, Shivam Rajput 22, Utkarsh Sharma 4 for 28, Rudra Mishra 3 for 25)

Rashtriya Ground – Kesco outplayed Golden Sporting by 18 runs.

Kesco 186 (Mayur Tiwari 45, Prashant Kushawaha 26, Ankut Verma 42 no, Raj Singh 3 for 43, Saumya Pal 2 for 16, Mony Pal 2 for 37, Adarsh Tripathi 2 for 40)

Golden Sporting 168 (Pranshu Chaturvedi 32, Ujjwal Rajput 31, Prem Srivastava 26, Pradeep Tiwari 3 for 28, Ankur Verma 2 for 30, Jai Kumar 2 for 33)

IIT ground – KCC beat IIT Kanpur by 177 runs.

KCC 5 for 270 (Samyak Trivedi 95, Ansh Patel 50, Dravya Kushwaha 32, Rituraj Singh 38 no, Himanshu Nagar 2 for 21, Daksh Singh 2 for 41)

IIT Kanpur 93 (Ashish 20, Suraj 18, Abhay Singh 5 for 9, Rajdeep Singh 3 for 31, Aksah Gupta 2 for 27)

KCPL cricket – Home Furnish 11 drubbed the challenge of Blue Warriors by 5 wickets under flood light match of Kanpur Cricket Premier League being played here at Bharat Cricket Academy ground on Sunday evening. Blue Warriors batting first scored 9 for 101 and Home Furnish hit 5 for 105 in 16.1 overs and won the match.