AIPS,RCA victorious

All India Public Sector and Rajasthan Cricket Academy won their league encounters comfortably in the ongoing Lala Raghubir hot weather cricket tournament on Friday.

AIPSs Sanjay Bamal (71) and Joginder Singh (64) piled on the runs to set up a 15-run victory after putting a competitive score of 229/9 on the board. Vidya Jain Academy could not string together consistent partnerships to threaten the opposition as Varun Sood (46 n.o.) eventually ran out of partners. Rohit Mehra received the man of the match for his brilliant spell of three wickets for 15 runs.

In the second match of the day,Rajesh Bishnois decision to bat first was backed by his splendid knock of 116,powered the team to a massive 172 runs victory over Malik Sports.

Malik Sports crumbled by the half way stage as they were bowled out for 120.

Brief scores: AIPS 229 for 9 in 40 overs (Sanjay Bamal 71,Joginder Singh 64; Vikas Mishra 3/33,Sumit Rana 3/46); VJ Academy 214 all out in 38.3 overs (Agnesh Surya 57,Varun Sood 46 n.o.; Rohit Mehra 3/15,Rajender Bisht 3/35); RCA 292 for 5 in 40 overs (Rajesh Bishnoi 116,Rohit Sharma 78; Mehraj Ahmad 2/45,Joginder Sharma 2/73); Malik Sports 120 all out in 21.4 overs (Rajiv Rawat 41; Gajender Singh 3/17,Madhur Khatri 2/03,Vivek Yadav 2/28)

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