Both teams had 3 wins and 2 losses in the last 5 matches of the last TNPL season. Idream Tiruppur Tamizhans had good momentum, but they fell in the crucial matches. In Qualifier 2, they were all out for just 108 against the Dragons. Maan Bafna tried to recover a bit with 26 runs, but the score was small. In bowling too, only Bhuvaneswaran got one success.
Chepauk Super Gillies also lost the match against Dindigul in the Eliminator after a good start. Aparajith provided a strong platform by scoring 72 runs, and Tanwar hit a quick 22 in the end. The score was 158/6, which was decent, but they could not defend it. Rahil Shah and J. Prem Kumar took 2 wickets each, but the Dragons won the match.
The pitch of SNR College Ground, Coimbatore is balanced. Here both batting and bowling get a chance. Till now, 21 TNPL matches have been held in which 14 times the team chasing has won the match and only 7 times the team batting first has won.
The average first innings score of this ground is 151. The highest score here was made by Nellai Royal Kings – 236/2. And the lowest score on this ground was also made by Idream Tiruppur Tamizhans – 64/6. It is best for the team winning the toss to bowl first. The pitch can be slow during the match, but scoring runs is possible if wickets are in hand.
A total of 8 matches have been played in TNPL between Chepauk Super Gillies and Idream Tiruppur Tamizhans. Out of these, Chepauk has won 6 times, while Tiruppur has won only one match. One match ended without a result.
Last season also, Chepauk won the match by 15 runs. Initially, their batting collapsed, but Pramod Ranjan Paul saved the team by playing a brilliant innings of 67 runs. From Tiruppur's side, Mohammed Ali took 3 wickets, and Ganesh tried to fight back with 61 runs, but the match was won by CSG.
Amith Sathvik, Tushar Raheja (wk), Mohamed Ali S, Radhakrishnan S, Uthirasamy Sasidev, Sai Kishore (c), C V Achyuth, Daryl Ferrario, T Natarajan, Ragupathy Silambarasan, Mohan Prasath
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Baba Aparajith (c), Narayan Jagadeesan (wk), N Sunil Krishna, Arjun Murthy, Vijay Shankar, Swapnil Singh, Abhishek Tanwar, M Silambarasan, Rohith Suthar, Aushik Srinivas, Rajalingam G
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Keeper: Narayan Jagadeesan, Amith Sathvik
Batters: Vijay Shankar, Mohan Prasath, P Rajan Prashad
All-rounders: Swapnil Singh, Baba Aparajith, Daryl Ferrario, V Anovankar
Bowlers: R Sai Kishore, T Natarajan
Baba Aparajith
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Vijay Shankar
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Keeper: Narayan Jagadeesan, T Raheja
Batters: Vijay Shankar, P Rajan Prashad
All-rounders: Swapnil Singh, Baba Aparajith, Daryl Ferrario
Bowlers: R Sai Kishore, T Natarajan, R Srinivas, R Silambaran
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