Grand opening of cricket tournament in Madhepura: Khagaria defeated Saharsa in the first match, huge crowd of spectators gathered

Khagaria defeated Saharsa in the first match

Ekta Cup cricket tournament was inaugurated in the memory of Rameshwari Devi, Harsh Chandra Khandelwal alias Subal Babu at Maveshi Haat ground under the aegis of XI Star at Singheshwar in Madhepura. Social worker Dilip Khandelwal inaugurated the match by cutting the ribbon. The inaugural match was played between Khagaria Cricket Club vs Saharsa Cricket Club.

Khagaria defeated Saharsa on the first day

Batting first after winning the toss, Saharsa’s team scored 83 runs losing all wickets in 16.2 overs in the stipulated 20 overs match. Aftab contributed 29, Anshu 14 and Rohit contributed 10 runs from Saharsa. Apart from this, no player of the Saharsa team could touch the double digit figure. Devraj got 3, Rohan Raj got 2 successes from Khagaria. Playing later, Khagaria’s team achieved the target in 14 overs losing 7 wickets and confirmed their place in the semi-finals. Vishwajit 18 and Murali contributed 11 runs from Khagaria side, while Saharsa bowler Sonu Jha got 3 and Anant Mishra 2 success for his team.

a large number of spectators were present

And before the tournament, the children of Kids World and Green Field Inter School showed their skills by dancing on patriotic songs and left the audience mesmerized. Gauri Shankar and Pramod Prabhakar played the role of judges in the match while Sunil Modi was playing the role of scorer. Whereas Nirmal, Sushil Jha and Mukesh Jha were playing the role of commentary one by one. During this, District Cricket Association Secretary Rajiv Sharma, Former Secretary Amit Kumar, Sumit Kumar, Mukesh Yadav, Rohit Singh, Amrit, Ashish, Chanchal Pathak, Daroga Yadav, Keshav Sharma, Lal Baba, Green Field International’s Kundan Kumar, Rupesh Kumar, Sunil Yadav etc. were present.