Siechem Madurai Panthers have one win in their last three matches. They started with a loss in the very first game of the season against Salem Spartans, then picked up a win in the second match against Lyca Kovai Kings. In the last match, they lost to Dindigul Dragons by 9 wickets. Atheeq Ur Rahman scored 50 off 41 balls. P Vignesh took the only wicket in that match for Siechem Madurai Panthers.
Nellai Royal Kings have two wins in their last three games. They started the season with a win against Trichy Grand Cholas, then lost the second match to Chepauk Super Gillies. In the third and last match against Salem Spartans, Nellai Royal Kings won the match by 8 wickets. Sachin Rathi was the star player of that match, taking 5 wickets. D Santhosh Kumar and PS Nirmal Kumar did well with the bat to chase down a target of 127 runs in just 13.4 overs.
This is the second last game on this pitch before the action moves to Tirunelveli. SCF Cricket Ground, Salem offers a good batting track in the second innings. Teams batting first have been seen struggling to make runs. Even if a team scores the average first innings total of 140–150 runs, it is not considered safe. These targets are easy to chase in the second innings.
The average number of wickets fallen in the first innings is more than in the second innings at this ground. Bowlers who bowl in the death overs and left-arm orthodox bowlers have been very consistent and economical here, especially in the first innings. Try to have both death bowlers and left-arm orthodox players from the first innings in your Dream11 team to earn more points.
The head-to-head battle between Siechem Madurai Panthers and Nellai Royal Kings has been an interesting one. Both teams have played five times against each other in TNPL history. Three matches went in favor of Nellai Royal Kings, and the other two were washed out due to rain.
The last match between these two teams was washed out in TNPL 2024. Before that, in TNPL 2023, these two teams faced off in the Eliminator match, where Nellai Royal Kings won by just four runs. Batting first, Nellai Royal Kings scored 211 runs with brilliant efforts from Ajitesh Guruswamy and Nidhish Rajagopal, scoring 50 and 76 respectively. Gurjapneet Singh took two wickets for Siechem Madurai.
During the chase, Siechem Madurai Panthers could only score 207 runs and lost the match by 4 runs. Suresh Lokeshwar, V Aaditya, and Swapnil Singh did well with the bat but couldn’t win the match for their team.
Ram Arvindh, Balchander Anirudh, NS Chaturved (c), Atheeq Ur Rahman, C Sarath Kumar, S Ganesh(w), P Saravanan, Murugan Ashwin, S Rajalingam, P Vignesh, Gurjapneet Singh
Injury Update: None
Arun Karthik (c), Ajitesh Guruswamy, Rithik Easwaran(w), PS Nirmal Kumar, NS Harish, Sonu Yadav, Muhammed Adnan Khan, Sachin Rathi, Valliappan Yudheeswaran, Emmanuel Cherian, Rocky Bhasker
Injury Updates: None
Keepers: Arun Karthik, Ram Arvindh-R
Batters: S Kumar Duraisamy, B Anriudh, A Ur Rahman
All-rounders: Sonu Yadav, Murugan Ashwin, N Harish
Bowlers: V Yudheeswaran, Gurjapneet Singh, Sachin Rathi
Sonu Yadav
Murugan Ashwin
S Kumar Duraisamy
Arvindh-R
Keepers: Arun Karthik, Ram Arvindh-R, G Ajitesh
Batters: S Kumar Duraisamy, B Anriudh, A Ur Rahman
All-rounders: Sonu Yadav, Murugan Ashwin
Bowlers: V Yudheeswaran, Sachin Rathi, P Vignesh
G Ajitesh
B Anriudh
V Yudheeswaran
Arun Karthik
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