In the opening match of the current season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) cricket tournament, Dindigul Dragons defeated iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans by 7 wickets on Tuesday.
Batting first, the Tiruppur team was bowled out for 107 in 15.4 overs, while the Dindigul team chased down the target with 111 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 18.3 overs to win the match.
Earlier, Dindigul, having won the toss, chose to bowl. In Tiruppur's batting, Amit Sathvik fell for 20 with 2 boundaries and 2 sixes, Uthirasamy Sasidev scored 17 with 2 boundaries, and Esakkimuthu was dismissed for 15 with 2 boundaries.
Muhammad Ali was dismissed for 11 with 1 boundary, Tushar Raheja for 4, captain Sai Kishore for 4, Pradosh Ranjan Paul for 7, Ganesh for 0, Anovankar for 0, and Raghupathi Silambarasan for 4 runs.
In the end, Mohan Prasad remained unbeaten as the last man with 17 runs, including 1 boundary. For Dindigul, the bowlers Bhuvaneshwaran and Nirankar Sharma took 3 wickets each, Sakthi Karuppasamy took 2, and Sandeep Warrier and Karthik Charan took 1 wicket each.
Later, while chasing the target of 108 runs, in the Dindigul team, Anurag Rajesh Nair returned to the pavilion with 34 runs including 4 boundaries, Shivam Singh for 10, and Jayanth for 7 runs.
In the end, Vimal Kumar, with 1 boundary and 1 six, scored 33, and Hanny Saini, with 1 boundary and 1 six, remained unbeaten on 17 runs to guide the team to victory.
Among the Tiruppur team’s bowlers, T. Natarajan, Raghupathi Silambarasan, and Sai Kishore each took 1 wicket.
