Kanpur: Kanpur South outplayed Diamond Club by 6 wickets and moved into the semi-final of the Mukta Malviya Memorial cricket tournament at Kanpur South A Ground on Thursday. Brief score: Diamond Club – 154 (Shivansh Yadav 33, Adityaraj Tiwari 27, Vibhav Kushwaha 20, Adarsh Tiwari 20; Shaurya Deep 3 for 20, Raunak Singh 3 for 21, Ashutosh Pandey 2 for 25); Kanpur South – 4 for 158 (Prithvi Raj 48, Himanshu Singh 45, Aman Bhadoria 55no; Amitesh Shukla 2 for 23, Pankaj Kumar 1 for 31) MOM – Himanshu SinghTiwari Memorial cricket: RVS and Cric IT Academy defeated their rival teams and earned full points in the first Sunil Tiwari Memorial Under-13 inter-cricket academy league being played here at different grounds.Brief score: Sapru Ground—RVS Academy beat Kapil Academy by 6 runs. RVS Academy – 7 for 173 (Utkarsh Dwivedi 65, Krishna Yadav 43; Kabir Yadav 4 for 28, Siddhant Bajpai 2 for 41) Kapil Academy – 8 for 167 (Arav Yadav 37, Siddharth Sinha 29, Prince 25, Krishna Yadav 22; Harshwardhan 3 for 32, Viraj Pal 2 for 26); Kanpur South B Ground—Cric IT beat Panki Cricket Academy by 81 runs. Cric IT Academy – 9 for 257 (Dev Dubey 65, Shivansh Kumar 61, Akhand Tripathi 26, Shaurya Tiwari 20; Rachit Trivedi 2 for 4, Rishabh Vishwakarma 2 for 40, Udairaj 2 for 46, Ishant Rawat 2 for 48) Panki Academy – 9 for 176 (Adarsh 68, Udairaj 30; Akhand Tripathi 4 for 35, Yashraj 2 for 27)KDMA league: Sonnet Club, Green Park hostel, Paramount and Kanpur Sporting Union Club collected full points, defeating their rival teams in KDMA league matches held at different grounds on Thursday.District-level junior cricket: The Sports Directorate will organise a district-level junior boys’ cricket tournament on the occasion of UP Day 2026 at Green Park from January 24 to 26, 2026. Interested teams may contact deputy sports officer Amit Pal (9451873545).). TNN
