Pool A, B and C teams played five matches this weekend for the qualification to the quarter final rounds.

Titus & Co from pool A and Luthra & Luthra and Dua Associates made it to quarter finals a week earlier after having finished all three of their intra-pool games.

On Saturday this weekend, AZB was pitted against Trilegal in pool A while pool B teams Saikrishna played Karanjawala & Co and Amarchand Mangaldas faced Khaitan & Co.

Trilegal tasted defeat in a closely fought match against AZB leading to AZB’s victory by one wicket as it just managed to chase 128 runs target set by Trilegal and scored 129 in the last over itself after having lost nine wickets.

AZB bowler Dhruv Sahai picked up man of the match title for taking down four of Trilegal’s wickets and the highest runs were scored by teammate Dushyant Bagga.

In pool B’s remaining matches Khaitan & Co and Karanjawala lost against Amarchand Mangaldas and Saikrishna respectively.

After winning the toss to bat first, Saikrishna’s set up a total of 170 runs which Karanjawala couldn’t chase in 20 overs and managed only 129 runs for a loss of eight wickets. Saikrishna was awarded a bonus point for winning by a good margin of 41 runs and batsmen Kamal Khurana (43 runs) and Gagan Darang (33 runs) were the high-scorers.

Despite losing, Karanjawala all-rounder Kalyan Kumar was declared man of the match for scoring the highest total of 44 runs along while also striking down three wickets of the opponents.

Last Saturday’s final match resulted in an easy victory for Amarchand over Khaitan in what was the highest-scoring batting display of the weekend. Team Amarchand elected to bat first and racked up 178 runs in 18.3 overs which Khaitan & Co failed to chase, going all out in 17 overs after making only 84 runs.

Amarchand star batsman Prashant Mehta’s stupendous 56 runs in 29 balls included ten boundaries that earned him man of the match award and contributed to an Amarchand bonus point .

On Sunday, in the first of pool C’s remaining two matches, Kochhar’s bowling order restrained opponents Suri & Co to a total of 129 runs, which team Kochhar chased smoothly in just 13.1 overs, scoring a bonus point too in a match they won by six wickets.

Kochhar all-rounder Sultan Ansari picked up man of the match title.

In the other pool C match of Sunday, Anand & Anand smothered KJSV even after it had elected to bat first to score a measly total of 90 runs in 19.3 overs when it lost all its wickets.

Anand & Anand responded with an easy 94 runs in just 12.2 overs for a loss of only three wickets for a bonus point victory over KJSV.

Anand bowler Vinod took four wickets giving away five runs for four overs bowled and was man of the match.

The ousted teams are Trilegal and S&R Associates from pool A, Khaitan & Co and Karanjawala from pool B, KJSV and Suri & Co from pool C and DSK and K&S Partners from pool D.

Titus & Co and Luthra & Luthra with 15 points each lead their respective pools A and D followed by Amarchand Mangaldas and Kochhar & Co tally of 14 points in pool B an C respectively. Next are Dua Associates at nine points and AZB at eight points.

Next weekend on 18 December pool A quarter-finalists Titus & Co and AZB & Partners will face-off against pool C’s Anand & Anand and Kochhar & Co respectively.

Pool B quarter-finalists Amarchand Mangaldas and Saikrishna will clash with their respective pool D rivals Dua Associates and Luthra & Luthra on 19 December.

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Group stage final points tally