At the non-striker’s end of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) 2024 match, spinner S Mohan Prasath gave Ravichandran Ashwin a taste of his own medicine.
In the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) 2024 encounter between Dindigul Dragons and Nellai Royal Kings on Sunday, spinner S Mohan Prasath gave Ravichandran Ashwin a taste of his own medicine. Ashwin was the striker in the opening over of the Dragons innings when the event occurred. The bowler saw Ashwin leave the crease before the delivery was bowled. Midway through his motion, Prasath halted and cautioned Ashwin before resuming his bowling posture. It was intriguing since Ashwin, the non-striker, had cautioned and even ejected batters for leaving the crease, and the footage of this occurrence had gone viral.
In the meantime, captain Suryakumar Yadav and batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal showcased their diverse skill set as India seized an insurmountable 2-0 lead, winning the rain-shortened second Twenty20 International by seven wickets.
Suryakumar, the new captain, and head coach Gautam Gambhir had the best possible start to their careers as the Indian squad outperformed Sri Lanka in every aspect, behaving like real T20 World Champions.
Jaiswal (30 off 15 balls) and Suryakumar (26 off 12 balls) made a quick but deft chase of 78 in 8 overs, despite Shubman Gill’s absence due to a neck spasm and another format failure for the much-hyped Sanju Samson (0). This came after bowlers had restricted Sri Lanka to 161 for 9.
The Mumbai pair chose to pull out both the conventional and reverse sweep shots just as Maheesh Theekshana was beginning to appear threatening getting Samson with a carrom ball and squaring up Surya with a doosra.
The plan was to prevent confusion by preventing Theekshana and Wanindu Hasaranga from making off-target deliveries.
As an alternative, they scored 39 runs in 3.1 overs, and by the time Surya and Jaiswal were removed, they had combined for seven fours and three sixes.
Hardik Pandya (22 not out off 9 balls) and Rishabh Pant (2 not out) had to finish the formalities in 6.3 overs to make Tuesday’s series decider meaningless.
After being comfortably situated at 130 for 2 in 15 overs, the host team lost as many as seven wickets for 31 runs in their final 30 balls after Surya called right earlier in the day. His bowlers then performed a duplicate performance on subsequent days.
Charith Asalanka’s team lost momentum after scoring 80 in the first ten overs and was in a position to accelerate. Pandya’s (2/23 in 2 overs) change of pace and Ravi Bishnoi’s (3/26 in 4 overs) quick googlies proved to be the difference. The team managed just 81 runs in the back 10.
With two wickets apiece, Axar Patel and Arshdeep Singh also contributed.
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