Varanasi26 December. Garde XI opened its account by defeating Lalji XI by four wickets with 19 balls remaining with the help of the all-round performance of ‘Player of the Match’ Pankaj Chaubey (1-14 and 36 runs, 46 balls, four fours) in the Group ‘B’ match of the 38th Kanishkadev Gorawala Memorial Media Cricket Competition here on Friday. After the second consecutive defeat, the challenge of Lalji XI ended.
Opting to bat first at the Dr. Sampurnanand Sports Complex, Lalji XI had scored 114 runs for six wickets. In response, Garde XI achieved an easy victory by scoring 115 runs for six wickets in 16.5 overs.
Lalji XI captain Chandra Prakash’s versatile performance in vain
In fact, the captain of Lalji XI, Chandra Prakash, who was bundled out for 44 runs in front of Hriday Prakash XI a day earlier, today showed a little shine of his sports college days. In this order, with the fifth position, he played an aggressive inning of 30 unbeaten runs (20 balls, one six, two fours) and took the team beyond 100. Later he also took three wickets for 20 runs. But his versatile performance proved meaningless in front of Pankaj.
Partnership of 45 runs between Ajit and Devesh
In the innings of Lalji XI, apart from Chandra Prakash, Ajit (20 runs, 26 balls, two fours) and Devesh (14 runs, 42 balls, one four) made a partnership of 45 runs for the second wicket. Apart from Pankaj, captain Santosh Singh, Abhishek Mishra, Ravish and Ashish Shukla also got one success each.
Openers Pankaj and Varun added 45 runs for the second wicket.
While chasing the target, opener Pankaj made a partnership of 45 runs with Varun (14 runs, 116 balls, two fours) on the second wicket and with the help of other batsmen, the team took the score to 92 runs. After that, Abhishek Mishra (12 runs not out, 10 balls, one six) along with Anurag Shukla (one run not out) put the final seal on the team’s victory. Mr. Extra also contributed 38 runs in this victory. Apart from Chandra Prakash, Ajit Singh took two wickets for 20 while Aishwarya got one success.
Social worker Awadhesh Pathak, the chief guest of the third day of the cricket competition of Anand Chandola Sports Festival organized under the banner of Varanasi Press Club run by Kashi Journalist Association, got introduced to the players of both the teams. Manohar and Krishna Tiwari umpired the match and Nand Kishore Yadav was the scorer.
saturday match , Paradkar XI vs Ishwardev Mishra XI (Group A, 10.30 am).
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