The star studded bowling line of Aananda Warriors was blown away by Deepak Aster’s power hitting with Aananda Invincibles registering their fourth with of the tournament.

Batting first, Warriors began well and despite loosing wickets, they kept on the scoring rate with Mohit, Vijay and captain Yashpal keeping up.

From being 29 for 2 in just 5 overs, with the wicket of Yashpal, Warriors lost their way and could only manage 8 runs from there and were bowled out in just 7.2 overs.

Deepak Aster when came in to bat was in different mood today and started hitting the ball from first ball itself.

Scoring 31 of just 7 balls with the help of 5 sixes, Deepak finished the chase in record 9 balls.

Yashpal registered the worst figures of APL with 19 runs of just 3 balls at the economy of 38 runs per over.

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Aananda Gladiators also qualify for the playoffs after Blasters.

They beat Aananda Dynamites by 6 wickets to qualify for playoffs in match # 56 of APL-6.

Batting first, the batting disaster continued for Dynamites with first two wickets down for them without any runs on the scoreboard and from there being reduced to 2 runs for 5 wickets and 9 runs for 7 wickets.

4 extras and one 6 from Gagan Chauhan helped Dynamites get to 19 runs total before being all out in just 6.1 overs.

Gladiators had absolutely no problems chasing the target of 20 down in just 3 overs.

Captain Chirag Madaan bowled exceptionally well bowling two maidens out of 2 and finishing with figures of 2-2-0-3.

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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.

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Aananda Paltan lost their 8th match of the season against Aananda Challengers.

Captain Pranshu Pareek won the toss and decided to bat first. Trying yet another new opening pair of Pranshu and Kaushal Sharma, Paltan failed once again losing Kaushal in the very first over with just 1 run on the board.

From there, things only got difficult for Paltan. None of their players could score freely and the team could only manage to score 26 runs in their allotted 8 overs.

Chasing 27, Atul Goyal and Dhiraj gave a great start to Challengers putting together 17 runs for first wicket in just 2.4 overs.

Man of the match Atul Goyal remained unbeaten and carried his team to the target while Challengers lost 3 quick wickets in a space of 2 runs.

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In the third and final leg of APL-6, Aananda United Champs gained momentum, beating Aananda Gladiators by 9 runs.

Batting first, UC struggled again after captain Sapan Khandelwal was out cheaply. Krish Soni and Mayank Srivastava steadied the innings for UC and they were equally helped by some directionless bowling by Gladiators who bowled 7 extra deliveries in their innings which helped UC get to a respectable 35 runs total.

Chasing 36, Gladiators were caught off-guard by UC with opener Naman Jain going back in very first over and Bhavesh Soni picking up both captain Chirag Madaan and vice-captain Harsh Madaan in the second over of the innings.

Gladiators could never recover from this start, however, even UC bowlers gave away 9 extras but in the end, good tight bowling by UC left Gladiators 9 runs short of target.

With this, UC are now placed 4th on the points table with 12 points and 2 more matches to play.

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Aananda Spartans clinched yet another thriller defeating Aananda Warriors by 2 runs.

In this season of low totals, Spartans batting first struggled against the supreme bowling line of Warriors. Cautious start by Shakti Godara and Kartik Safaya meant they had wickets in hand at the end to capitalize, however, Warriors kept it extremely tight and thus, Spartans could only manage 28 from their 8 overs.

Warriors looked on course to chase it down with Mohit giving them the start that was needed, hitting Shakti for a six in his first over.

However, once the openers were dismissed, Warriors lost their way and kept on loosing wickets at regular interval. At one time, warriors were very comfortably placed with just 7 runs to win in 2 overs. However, the regular fall of wickets meant they only had 2 wickets left which in the end proved costly for Warriors.

They were not left with enough fire-power to face the heat from Kartik, Shakti and Arihant and in the end, fell just 2 runs short of the target.

With that, Spartans set a new record of defending the lowest total in the APL-6 tournament so far.

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Aananda Dynamites‘ struggle with batting continues as their batting line once again collapse against Aananda Strikers.

Batting first, Dynamites struggled to reach to a score of 14 out of which half of the runs were contributed by Extras. The batting run for dynamites is worrisome now as 5 batsmen scored a 0 for them in this innings again.

Shubham Saroliya once again bowled exceptionally well picking up 3 wickets for strikers.

The target was an easy one for Strikers to chase down but Dynamites bowled well and picked up 3 Strikers wickets and fought for over 5 overs. The match could have been more exciting if Dynamites could have controlled extras which formed the major part of Strikers innings as well.

With this loss, Dynamites are on the verge of being knocked out of the tournament as they have won only 3 out of their 8 matches. They would need to win their remaining 3 matches with big margin and at the same time would have to pray for other match results to fall in their favor for any chance of qualifying.

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All Round performance by Hitendra Gautam brought Aananda United Champs back to the top of the table against Aananda Titans.

Batting first, Hitendra opened the innings with captain Sapan giving the team a steady start. Hitendra carried the bat not-out at 20 runs in 8 overs which resulted in UC ending their innings at 49 in their 8 overs.

In response, Titan never looked competitive and lost wickets in almost every over of the innings. While bowling also, Hitendra spinned the ball brilliantly picking up 3 wickets for just 3 runs which won him the Man of the Match award.

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Aananda Strikers equaled the highest total of the tournament (64) in their match against Aananda Game Swingers who looked totally out of touch for Match No. 30 of APL – 6.

Batting first, Strikers began the Strike from the word go led by Shubham Sarolia who hit 4 sixes scoring 34 of just 19 balls.

In reply, Game Swingers never looked in contest and with every passing over, they kept on loosing wickets and not scoring runs, resulting in them reduced to just 27 from their 8 overs losing the match by 37 runs.

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Last ball 6 from Harsh Madaan meant a yet another last ball loss for Aananda Invincibles against Aananda Gladiators.

Captain Deepak Aster won the toss and decided to bat first. The young guns of Gladiators were all fired up bowling first led by captain Chirag Madaan. None of Gladiators’ bowlers went for double digits which meant that Invincibles were reduced to 26 in their 8 overs.

Invincibles made an absolute match out of it, picking up regular wickets and reducing them to requiring 9 runs of the last over. Anil Poonia bowled a good last over giving away only 3 runs off first 5 balls leaving vice-captain Harsh Madaan with 6 runs to win the match of the last ball.

Harsh made sure that the ball went past the boundary and clinched the victory from Invincibles who had themselves to blame dropping Harsh twice in the fielding.

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