UP T20 League 2025 Playoff Race: In the First Qualifier, Kashi Rudras defeated Meerut Mavericks and made it to the direct final 

Lucknow : The final stage of T20 has now arrived. The exciting journey started on 17th August in which all the teams witnessed many ups and downs this season. This time the third season was spectacular in many ways. Till the last match of the League Matches, it was not decided which would be the final four teams.

Meerut Mavericks faced defeat in the first qualifier of the Uttar Pradesh Premier League 2025. Rinku Singh played an explosive innings in this match, but he could not lead the team to victory. In the first qualifier of Uttar Pradesh Premier League 2025, a thrilling match was seen between Kashi Rudras and Meerut Mavericks at Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow . Both the teams fought hard to make it to the final and in the end Kashi Rudras team won by 5 runs. That is, Meerut Mavericks, captained by Rinku Singh , had to face defeat even after coming very close to victory. One mistake of Rinku cost his team heavily. Team India’s explosive batsman Rinku Singh played a blistering innings in this match, but he could not make his team win. Meerut got a target of 167 runs to make it to the final . But Meerut Mavericks did not have a great start. The team lost its first wicket on just 3 runs. At the same time, Swastik Chikara could also score only 25 runs in 32 balls. Rituraj Sharma definitely played an innings of 65 runs. But he did not get support from the other batsmen. When Rinku Singh came out to bat , the team had lost 3 wickets after scoring 100 runs in 13.4 overs .

After this, Rinku Singh took charge of the innings and scored 40 runs in 23 balls at a strike rate of 173.91 . His innings included 3 fours and 2 sixes. As long as he was at the crease , it seemed that the Meerut Mavericks team would win this match. But one mistake of his cost the team heavily. Actually, Meerut Mavericks needed 20 runs to win in the last over . Rinku Singh also managed to score 10 runs in the first 3 balls, but after that he lost his wicket on a full toss . Usually Rinku hits such a ball straight out of the field, but this time he missed and lost his wicket and the team had to face defeat by 5 runs.

Kashi Rudras won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved to be correct. Captain Karan Sharma played an innings of 43 runs in 26 balls, due to which his team managed to score 166 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs . Now Kashi Rudras team will directly play the final match. They will face the winner of Qualifier 2.