Dindigul Dragons registered a thumping victory by seven wickets over Siechem Madurai Panthers of their Tamil Nadu Premier League match on Sunday in Dindigul. Opting to bowl first, the Dragons bundled out the Panthers for simply 123. Later, the hosts comfortably chased down the goal in simply 14.1 overs with seven wickets in hand. Despite being on the shedding facet, there was one act from the Panthers that utterly surprised the followers. It was a flying catch from the leg-spinner Murugan Ashwin to dismiss S Arun.

During the fourth of the Dragons’ chase, Arun performed a shot on left-arm pacer Gurjapneet Singh’s supply. The ball was up within the air when Ashwin began working backwards and brilliantly dived to take a stunner.

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Despite scalping three early wickets, the Panthers couldn’t cease the hosts from clinching a win as Baba Indrajith and Adithya Ganesh smashed 78* and 22* runs respectively and took their facet throughout the road.

For the Panthers, Gurjapneet Singh was the choose among the many bowlers as he himself took all three wickets. Earlier, Jagatheesan Kousik scored 45 whereas skipper Hari Nishanth scored 24 because the Panthers may solely handle 123 runs within the first innings.

Saravana Kumar and Suboth Bhati took three wickets whereas Varun Chakaravarthy took two wickets. Apart from them, skipper Ravichandran Ashwin and M Mathivannan additionally scalped one wicket every.

Dindigul Dragons will now be squaring off towards Chepauk Super Gillies for his or her subsequent conflict on Wednesday whereas Siechem Madurai Panthers shall be going up towards Salem Spartans on Saturday.