Aananda Blasters became first team to officially qualify for the playoffs for APL-6 when they beat Aananda Paltan by 4 wickets.
Paltan who are officially out of tournament won the toss and decided to bat first. Paltan who were now looking to give exposure to maximum of their players opened with yet another different pair of Hemant Kachchhawa and Kaushal Sharma.
The start was one of the best Paltan had in the tournament and from there, Paltan were scoring at good rate. At one point, owing to Dhan Kumar Jain’s knock of 15 of 12, Paltan were sitting pretty at 30 for 2 in just 5.4 overs. At that point, they were looking at a score of 40+ to defent.
However, Blasters pulled it back giving away just 2 runs of last 14 balls of the innings and restricting Paltan for just 32.
Chasing 33, Blasters had a disastrous start with half of their team back in pavillion in just 3 over with 13 runs on the board.
From there, Ashutosh Vyas and Karun Batra played sensibly and chased down this target without any further loss winning it at the end of over no. 7.
With this, Blasters moved to 16 points and have officially qualified for the playoff.
