Match Details
10.50 PM IST | That's it!! Nellai Royal Kings win this game by 4 wickets as they held their nerves till the end and win this game. An excellent batting performance from G Ajitesh has helped them to cross the victory line in the last over.
Earlier in the game, Nellai Royal Kings won the toss and elected to bowl first. Kovai Kings started the innings with Sachin B and J Suresh Kumar, but they lost the early wicket of Sachin(0) in the second over. But the credit goes to J Suresh Kumar and B Sai Sudharsan, these both took the team off to a good start.
J Suresh Kumar and B Sai Sudharsan. The duo took charge after the first wicket and progressed their partnership in the middle and glued a solid partnership of 66 runs in 46 balls.
B Sai Sudharsan was the top scorer as he scored 90 off 52 balls including 7 fours and 4 six before departed. While his partner, Suresh Kumar walks off at 33. Shahrukh Khan played a small cameo of 17 off 8 balls before departing in the 19th over and his team to a respectable total of 181 runs.
M Poiyamozhi was the pick of the bowlers for Nellai Royal Kings as he scalped three wickets. While A Ramsingh Sonu Yadav guided a wicket.
While chasing a total of 182 runs. Royal Kings got off to a shaky start, as they posted 48 runs, loss of 1 wicket in the first 6 overs. G Ajitesh and R Sri Neranjan, this duo took charge after the early wicket and glued a solid partnership of 76 runs for the second wicket before R Sri Neranjan walks off to the field at 25 runs off 29 balls.
Sonu Yadav joined G Ajitesh, they both added 46 runs off 23 balls in the middle overs before Sonu Yadav departed, who contributed 20 runs on that.
G Ajitesh continued assaulting on Kovai Kings bowlers and completed his first TNPL hundred in 58 balls and unfortunately departed in the last over at 112 runs off 60 balls including 7 fours and 8 sixes. M Poiyamozhi came and did the remaining job as they hit 7 runs in the last 2 balls has helped Nellai Royal Kings to cross the victory line in the last ball of the match with 4 wickets in hand.
From Kovai Kings, M Mohammed, Kiran Akash, Shahrukh Khan, Jhathavedh Subramanyan, K Gowtham Thamarai Kannan celebrated with a wicket each.
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