The 2nd Qualifier match of the Tamil Nadu Premier League 2021 was played yesterday between Chepauk Super Gillies vs Dindigul Dragons at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, in which Sai Kishore and Kaushik Gandhi power Chepauk Super Gillies beat Dindigul Dragons by 8 wickets to reach the TNPL final.

Chepauk Super Gillies won the toss and invited Dindigul Dragons to bat first, Dindigul Dragons batted first, the entire team all out after scoring just 103 runs in the allotted 20 overs, Dindigul Dragons started the inning very badly, Hari Nishanth is the only player who played a brilliant half-century inning of 56 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 2 boundaries in 46 balls, Vimal Khumar scored 11 runs, M Silambarasan remains unbeaten for 11 runs, apart from this no batsman could touch figure out of 10, R Vivek 7 runs, RS Mokit Hariharan 6 runs, S Swaminathan 3 runs, Rajhamany Srinivasan 3 runs, Rangaraj Suthesh and Gurjapneet Singh 1-1 run, Mani Bharathi and Lakshminarayanan Vignesh was dismissed without scoring. In this way, Dindigul Dragons batted first after losing the toss, wickets keep falling one after another, end of the result the entire team all out after scoring just 103 runs in the allotted 20 overs, and set a very easy target of 104 runs in front of Chepauk Super Gillies.

Chepauk Super Gillies bowlers performed very brilliantly,

Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore took 3 wickets for just 14 runs, R Alexander took 2 wickets, Manimaran Siddharth, Sonu Yadav, B Arun, and Harish Kumar got 1-1 wicket.

Chepauk Super Gillies chasing 104 runs in the second inning, achieved the target very easily by losing just 2 wickets in 16 over. Chepauk Super Gillies started the inning very brilliantly, Kaushik Gandhi and N Jagadeesan came to start the inning and gave a brilliant start with a half-century partnership of 69 runs, the first wicket has gone in 69 runs, N Jagadeesan dismissed after scoring 21 runs in 27 balls, next batsman S Radhakrishnan came to bat, and played well with Kaushik Gandhi, the second wicket has gone in 87 runs, Kaushik Gandhi dismissed after playing a brilliant half-century inning of 53 runs with the help of 1 six and 7 boundaries in just 41 balls, followed by Uthirasamy Sasidev came to bat, handled the inning and took the match to the victory with S Radhakrishnan, Uthirasamy Sasidev played an unbeaten inning of 13 runs in 13 balls, and S Radhakrishnan also played a brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 16 runs in 15 balls. In this way, Chepauk Super Gillies chasing 104 runs in the second inning, achieved the target very easily by losing just 2 wickets in 16 overs and won the 2nd Qualifier match by 8 wickets to reach the final.

Dindigul Dragons bowlers Rangaraj Suthesh S and Swaminathan got 1-1 wicket.

Chepauk Super Gillies bowler Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore was adjudged the best player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling took 3 wickets for just 14 runs in his spell.

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