R Ashwin celebrates through the TNPL closing.© X (Twitter)
India star Ravichandran Ashwin performed a captain’s knock as Dindigul Dragons claimed their maiden title within the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) with a six-wicket victory over Lyca Kovai Kings right here on Sunday. Up towards defending champions Lyca Kovai Kings within the closing, Dindigul Dragons accomplished a chase of 130 after Ashwin made a 46-ball 52. Ashwin hit a 4 and three sixes apart from stitching a 65-run stand for the third wicket with Baba Indrajith (32 off 35 balls). Having scored 46 runs for the lack of two wickets within the powerplay, the Dindigul middle-order relied on the composed Ashwin to get the obtained job accomplished with 10 deliveries to spare.
Gowtham Thamarai Kannan, Manimaran Siddharth, Valliappan Yudheeswaran and Shahrukh obtained a wicket every for Lyca.
Earlier, Dindigul saved the Lyca batters on the again foot by taking wickets recurrently. After selecting to subject, Sandeep Warrier (11 off 9 balls) made the primary breakthrough by dismissing Suresh Kumar within the third over.
The momentum swung decisively in Dindigul’s favour when Varun Chakravarthy struck twice within the sixth over, adopted by P Vignesh dismissing Sai Sudharsan (14 off 14 balls).
Atheeq Ur Rahman (25 off 17 balls) and Ram Arvindh (27 off 26 balls) added 36 runs for the fifth wicket, however Subodh Bhati eliminated the previous to sprint the defending champions’ hopes of a comeback.
Vignesh troubled Lyca additional and removed skipper Shahrukh Khan (3 off 7 balls).
Reeling at 105/6, Arvindh couldn’t maintain on both and gave a catch to Sandeep Warrier earlier than cameos from the tail-enders helped them to 129/7.
Ashwin completed with 0/13 for Dindigul, whereas Vignesh (2/15) and Chakravarthy (2/26) have been the standout performers.
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