Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

R Ashwin
R Ashwin
69(30) 11x4 - 3x6
Control %83%
  • Productive Shot
  • reverse_sweep
  • 16 runs
  • 4x4 - 0x6
13 0 5 4 4 9 18 16
R Vimal Khumar
28(27) 1x4 - 2x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 6 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
2 0 0 2 10 7 4 3

Best performances - Bowlers

P Vignesh
O4
M0
R8
W3
Eco2.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W
CV Varun
CV Varun
O4
M0
R17
W2
Eco4.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Scorer: Sudeep Poojar | Commentator: Shashwat Kumar

10:15pm That will be all from us for tonight. We hope you enjoyed our coverage just as much as we loved bringing it to you. We will be back at it on Sunday for the final of the 2024 edition of the TNPL, where the Dindigul Dragons will take on the Kovai Kings. We look forward to your company, and until then, this is goodbye from me and Sudeep. Take care!

P Vignesh, Player of the Match: (On his interactions with Ashwin and Chakravarthy) Had nice interactions with them and my roles were also specified from early. I just wanted to stick to my process. Wanted to do my routines properly and it worked out well.

R Ashwin, Dindigul Dragons captain: We have still not produced a complete game yet. Maybe we can bring our best game to the final. I try to tell these youngsters whatever I can, that is my way of giving back to the game. Sometimes, I am right, sometimes not (laughs). Coming into the tournament, I planned to open. But in a rain-affected game, I injured my hamstring. It is getting better now. He (Shivam Singh) will be available to play the next game but that injury could have been avoided, that one run could have been let go.

Sai Kishore, Tiruppur Tamizhans captain: The whole season has been fantastic. To qualify as the second-placed team, from the position we were in, was good. We did not take the right choices at the start. Silly errors from us and it was a 150-160 wicket, we could have fought with that score. We tried to get there but couldn't. (On bowling to Ashwin) For every cricketer in Tamil Nadu and in fact for every Indian cricketer, he is an inspiration. It has been a challenging season for me (not being at a 100%), but this season makes me want to push again (next year). Lot of players had good seasons. Hard to pick one player. Two-three players can definitely be mainstays for Tamil Nadu cricket. I also want to wish good luck to the two teams for the final.

9:58pm Clinical and classy. Two words that epitomize everything about this run-chase. Ashwin, with Shivam Singh injured, walked out to open and he made it look very, very easy. The spinners endured his wrath inside the powerplay, and to be fair, everyone seemed out of ideas when bowling to him. He played the sweep, the reverse sweep, the lofted shots and the pulls to absolute perfection, helping the Dragons pummel the Tamizhans into submission.

Not a lot to shout about for the Tiruppur Tamizhans. They did not have many to defend, and their bowling was not great. Sai Kishore was taken apart and that sort of summed up their plight. Getting to this stage, considering where they were at one point, was a decent effort but having gotten here, they will feel they could not quite turn up when the occasion demanded.

10.5
6
Bhuvaneswaran to Ashwin, SIX, Ashwin finishes it with successive sixes! The Dragons spread their wings and they are going on to contest the game that matters! Another slower delivery that sits up outside off and is begging to be hit. Ashwin marches down the track and forehands it over long on. Perhaps Ashwin is keeping an eye on the Paris Olympics, and he has struck gold for the Dragons tonight!
10.4
6
Bhuvaneswaran to Ashwin, SIX, dispatched with disdain! Half-tracker outside off and Ashwin is not going to miss out. Opens up his front hip and clubs it over deep mid wicket!
10.3
1
Bhuvaneswaran to Indrajith, 1 run, slower bumper on leg stump. Indrajith rolls his wrists and pulls it towards fine leg
10.2
2
Bhuvaneswaran to Indrajith, 2 runs, off-pace again, on a back of a length outside off. Indrajith helps it behind square and places it enough to fine leg's left to smuggle a second
10.1
0
Bhuvaneswaran to Indrajith, no run, slower ball on a fullish length just outside off. Indrajith comes forward and defends

END OF OVER:
10 | 9 Runs | DD: 97/1 (12 runs required from 60 balls, RR: 9.70, RRR: 1.20)

  • Baba Indrajith5 (5b)
  • Ravichandran Ashwin57 (28b)
  • Ramalingam Rohit1-0-9-0
  • P Bhuvaneswaran1-0-7-1
9.6
1
Rohit to Indrajith, 1 run, cutter on a shortish length outside off. Indrajith waits on it and glides it down to third man

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