TNPL | Swapnil Singh’s all-round present blows away Royal Kings

Swapnil Singh smashed a 14-ball 45.
| Picture Credit score: M. PERIASAMY

Swapnil Singh produced a wonderful all-round efficiency, first a superb 14-ball 45 (2×4, 5×6) adopted by a miserly spell (4-0-26-2) to assist Chepauk Tremendous Gillies thrash Nellai Royal Kings by 41 runs in a TNPL-9 league match on the Sri Ramakrishna Faculty floor right here on Monday.

It was the second successive win for Tremendous Gillies who’re main the desk with 4 factors from two matches.

Requested to bat first, Tremendous Gillies amassed 212 for seven — the fourth-highest complete within the league — using on helpful cameos from 4 of the top-six batters.

Opener Ok. Aashiq (54), showing in his second match, scored a breezy half-century and added 83 for the second wicket alongside skipper B. Aparajith (41) to set a strong basis.

The left-hander regarded compact whereas driving and slicing the pacers. Towards the spinners, he lofted cleanly down the bottom and He bought to his half-century with a swept six over sq. leg off left-arm spinner Sachin Rathi.

Nonetheless, it was Vijay Shankar (47 n.o.) and Swapnil, the skilled campaigners, who gave the ultimate flourish, raining sixes and plundering 78 runs within the final 5. Vijay Shankar first took on Rathi, hitting two sixes and a 4 within the sixteenth over.

Swapnil then joined the social gathering and used the lengthy deal with to brutal impact, smashing pacer M. Udhaya Kumar for a hat-trick of sixes within the 18th over. By the point he was out within the closing over, CSG had crossed 200.

In reply, Royal Kings’ chase was by no means on monitor and was lowered to 46 for 3 with Swapnil hanging twice within the sixth over and will by no means get well from it.

The scores:

Chepauk Tremendous Gillies 212/7 in 20 overs (Ok. Aashiq 54, B. Aparajith 41, Vijay Shankar 47 n.o., Swapnil Singh 45, Sonu Yadav 2/42, V. Yudheeswaran 3/37) bt Nellai Royal Kings 171/9 in 20 overs (Arun Karthik 51, Muhammed Adnan Khan 48, Abhishek Tanwar 3/33, Swapnil 2/26, M. Silambarasan 2/18).

Toss: NRK.

Tuesday’s match: SKM Salem Spartans vs Trichy Grand Cholas (7.15 p.m.).