Job accomplished: Kaushik Gandhi’s unbeaten 52 helped Salem Spartans win against Ba11sy Trichy.
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Kaushik Gandhi’s unbeaten 52 (32b, 3×4, 3×6) helped Salem Spartans chase down 139 and put up a five-wicket win over Ba11sy Trichy within the Tamil Nadu Premier League on the NPR College cricket floor in Natham on Sunday.
Kaushik hit three successive sixes within the fifteenth over off Antony Dhas to hasten the chase.
It had drizzled, was cloudy, and there was a little bit of moisture on the pitch. So, it was shocking when Ba11sy Trichy captain V. Ganga Sridhar Raju gained the toss and opted to bat on seemingly bowling-friendly situations.
There was a little bit of swing and seam motion, and good bounce all through the match. And Trichy’s R. Rajkumar and Salem’s Amith Sathvik who opened the match concurred that the pitch was sluggish all through.
Rajkumar identified post-match that batting was arduous and they did not sew collectively partnerships, which was the primary trigger for the loss.
Salem’s new-ball bowlers Abhishek Tanwar and Sunny Sandhu successfully used the situations as Trichy might handle solely 22 for two in its Power Play.
Off-spinner Rajendran Karthikeyan was distinctive along with his use of the carrom ball, which additionally led to the dismissal of Antony Dhas.
The day match right here in Dindigul (1.5 diploma) noticed higher common swing than within the day matches in Coimbatore (0.8 diploma).
In the opposite match, B. Indrajith smashed an unbeaten 78 (48b, 7×4, 4×6) as Dindigul Dragons beat Siechem Madurai Panthers by seven wickets with 35 balls to spare.
Sealing it: The 92-run partnership between Indrajith, proper, and Ganesh took Dragons residence.
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At 32 for three in 3.4 overs, Dindigul regarded in a spot of trouble when an unbeaten 92-run fourth-wicket stand was stitched between Indrajith and Adithya Ganesh (22, 22b, 1×4, 1×6).
The spotlight was the 26 runs that Indrajith took off Washington’s solely over of the match within the twelfth over. Indrajith struck three sixes in that over – one over deep midwicket, one straight-hit, and one over deep cowl.
There have been two spectacular catches within the match – Dindigul’s Shivam Singh diving to his proper on the slip, Madurai’s M. Ashwin operating again and finishing a diving catch.
The scores: Ba11sy Trichy 139/9 in 20 overs (Mani Bharathi 40, Daryl Ferrario 29, Abhishek Tanwar 3/9, Sunny Sandhu 2/27, Rajendran Karthikeyan 2/27) misplaced to Salem Spartans 143/5 in 15.2 overs (Kaushik Gandhi 52 n.o., Ok. Easwaran 2/22, G. Godson 3/34).
Siechem Madurai Panthers 123 in 19.3 overs (J. Kousik 45, Saravana Kumar 3/22, Suboth Bhati 3/19, Varun Chakravarthy 2/23) misplaced to Dindigul Dragons 124/3 in 14.1 overs (Indrajith 78 n.o., Gurjapneet Singh 3/18).
