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The Dindigul Dragons trumped the Siechem Madurai Panthers by 30 runs in the 24th match of the 2024 Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) at the NPR College Ground, Dindigul.
One could argue that the game was well and over in the first innings itself when the Dragons put up a score of 201/5 in 20 overs. Shivam Singh put his hand up for the Dragons today with a breath-taking 57-ball 106* to help his team reach a massive score in the first 20 overs. Singh’s innings were laced with six boundaries and ten maximums, toying with the Siechem bowlers indeed.
Karthick Manikanandan took two wickets for the Madurai Panthers, while Gurjapneet Singh, R Mithin, and Murugan Ashwin all took a wicket each.
In the end, the Panthers fell short of 30 runs in spite of batting efforts from opener Suresh Lokeshwar (55 off 37). Sandeep Warrier (2/30) and Ravichandran Ashwin (2/35) helped the Dindigul Dragons restrict the Panthers in their respective four overspells.
TNPL 2024 Most Runs List
Tiruppur Tamizhans star batter Tushar Raheja continues to top the 2024 Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) highest run-getters chart with 256 runs to his name and a batting average of 42.66 and a solid strike rate of 147.12. Tushar has the highest score of 81 runs this season.
Baba Indrajith of the Dindigul Dragons is second on the list, not too far, with a total of 240 runs in six innings. Incidentally, Indrajith has a better average (60) and a slightly better strike rate (150) compared to the table topper Raheja. Indrajith’s Dindigul teammate Shivam Singh rounds off the top three list with a tally of 226 runs in six matches. Singh has scored 16 boundaries and 16 sixes this season.
Arun Karthik (215) and Narayan Jagadeesan (210) have had a good season so far, and they occupy fourth and fifth place respectively. R. Sanjay Yadav too has scored 210 runs in six matches this season, and his batting efforts place him in the sixth place this season. Waseem Ahmed of the Trichy Grand Cholas is in seventh place and the only other batter on the list to have crossed the 200-run mark (207) this season.
Jafar Jamal, Shahrukh Khan, and Balasubramaniam Sachin round off the top 10 list with totals of 177.172 and 169 runs, occupying the eighth, ninth, and tenth places, respectively.
TNPL 2024 Most Wickets List
Salem Spartans lead bowler M Poiyamozhi continues to dominate the 2024 edition of the Tamil Nadu Premier League with 12 wickets in six matches. Poiyamozhi has a best bowling figure of 3/30 and an economy rate of 8.36.
Lyca Kovai Kings skipper Shahrukh Khan is the only other bowler barring Poiyamozhi to transgress the 10-wicket mark so far in the tournament, having taken 11 wickets with a stellar economy rate of 5.13 and best bowling figures of 3/13.
There is middle-table traffic in the leaderboard with a lot of bowlers with nine wickets at this stage of the tournament. P Sarvana Kumar, Murugan Ashwin, M Mohammed, T Natarajan, and V Athisayaraj Davison have all claimed nine wickets this season and occupy the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh places, respectively.
With eight wickets after six games, S Mohammad Ali, Ganeshan Periyaswamy, and Abhishek Tanwar occupy the eighth, ninth, and tenth places on the leading wicket-takers chart, respectively.
