T10 League 2018 Playoffs: Maratha Arabians, Northern Warriors win as Rajputs hit new low

Maratha Arabians and Northern Warriors registered contrasting wins in their T10 League 2018 playoff matches on Tuesday. 

While Maratha Arabians beat Rajputs by 10 wickets with five overs to spare, Northern Warriors won a last-ball thriller against the Sindhis in the 3rd and 4th playoff matches in T10 League. 
Rajputs set an unwanted record on Tuesday when were reduced to 63 for 7 - the lowest score in T10 competition.

Rajputs' lost their biggest battings stars Mohammad Shahzad (9) and Brendon McCullum (7) to early. The rest of the batsmen also couldn't do much with only Ben Dunk getting to double digits with 15.

Richard Gleeson (2/9), James Faulkner (2/13), Dwayne Bravo (1-15) and Roelof van der Merwe (1/14) took the wickets. Rashid Khan did not get any wicketss but conceded only seven runs in his two overs.

Hazratullah Zazai and Alex Hales took them home easily. Zazai was unbeaten on 29 from 12 balls with three fours and two sixes. Hales hit 27 from 18 balls with the same number of fours and sixes as Zazai.

In the second match, Sindhis posted a total of 91/6 thanks to Shane Watson's 54. However, he did not get much support from any other batsman.

Northern Warriors kept losing wickets at regular intervals but still managed to reach the target. They needed 6 runs of the last over. Isuru Udana sent back Chris Green and Imran Haider while Wahab Riaz was run out with the first five balls yielding five runs. The winning run came off the last ball through a bye.