Needing a win to qualify because the fourth workforce for the playoffs, Siechem Madurai Panthers pipped iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans by 4 runs within the seventh season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) on the India Cement Company floor right here on Tuesday.
Madurai will face Nellai Royal Kings within the Eliminator at Salem on July 8.
With 17 wanted for Tiruppur off the final over from left-arm medium-pacer Gurjapneet Singh, the workforce may solely handle 12 twelve runs, with P Bhuvaneswaran hitting two boundaries.
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Madurai opener S. Lokeshwar scored 44 (37b, 3×4, 2×6), and added 68 runs for the first-wicket partnership with fellow-opener, skipper, and left-hander C. Hari Nishaanth (34, 27b, 3×4, 2×6) and 36 runs for the second-wicket with one other left-hander V. Aaditya (37, 28b, 5×4) to assist Madurai get to 160 for 5.
The diminutive batter had batted in three matches and opened in two earlier than Tuesday. He scored at a strike fee of 151.85 and hit his first six of the season in his final match versus Lyca Kovai Kings.
He hit two sixes – an imperious pull to deep midwicket boundary off a Trilok Nag brief ball within the third over, a skip down the observe for a straight hit off left-arm spinner S. Ajith Ram within the sixth over.
Tushar Raheja starred with a fifty (51, 41b, 6×4, 1×6) for Tiruppur together with a six to the sweeper boundary off Gurjapneet Singh within the third over.
Scores:
Siechem Madurai Panthers 160/5 in 20 overs (S. Lokeshwar 44, Hari Nishaanth 34, V. Aaditya 37, Trilok Nag 2/36) bt iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans 156/6 in 20 overs (Tushar Raheja 51, Vijay Shankar 28, Gurjapneet Singh 2/40, Ajay Krishna 2/31).
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com