Mankad: Vidarbha beat UP, MP stun Railways

Indore, Oct 30 (UNI) Vidarbha defeated Uttar Pradesh by 2 wickets in an under-19 Vinoo Mankad one-day cricket league match here today while in another encounter hosts Madhya Pradesh derailed the Railways by 8 wickets.

Wielding the willow first, Uttar Pradesh scored 142/8 in the allotted 50 overs.

Eklavya Dwivedi contributed 43 while Srikant Wagh scalped 3 batsmen for Vidarbha. In reply, Vidarbha made 146 in 43.2 overs for 8 wickets, thereby earning 4 points.

In the other match, Madhya Pradesh bundled out the Railwaymen in 30.3 overs with the scoreboard reading a paltry 76 runs. Gaurav Tiwari scored 34 while Mayank Jagdale and Amarjit Singh took 3 wickets each, Rohan Shrivastava scalped 2 and Asif Ali claimed 1.

Madhya Pradesh reached the target of 77 in 23.4 overs losing only 2 wickets and earned 5 points including 1 bonus. Madhav Saxena made 42 runs for the hosts.

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