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Madurai Panthers vs Dindigul Dragons, 4th Match

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19.1
W
T Natarajan to Vignesh, out Caught by Venkataraman!! The Nattu bouncer. The deceiving bouncer. Just when Vignesh was walking all across his crease, back and forth looking for the yorker, Natarajan bumps on in and gets it to kick up as well at a nice height. Pulled away desperately, gets the top edge and square leg gobbles up the skier. Vignesh c Venkataraman b T Natarajan 28(16) [4s-1 6s-2]
18.5
6
S Kumar Singh to Vignesh, SIX, a full-blown loft. Bloods it down the ground. Full batted and swung over the bowler. Flush on the ropes. Something to bowl at now
18.4
4
S Kumar Singh to Vignesh, FOUR, vital runs these. And Vignesh is putting up a show in the death. 110 now. Gets a friendly sitting up length on the abdomen. Clears the front leg and crouches on the pull. Bisecting the gap around mid-wicket
17.4
W
T Natarajan to DT Chandrasekar, out Lbw!! Dead plumb. And Madurai are folding out here. With a whimper. The delivery that has got him an IPL contract, three crores, gets him another scalp out here. Starts wide, keeps coming in with the angle and too good for a tail ender to keep it out. Chandrasekar tries a glance, with the overbalancing front leg and takes it on the knee roll. In front of middle. DT Chandrasekar lbw b T Natarajan 1(3)
17.1
6
T Natarajan to Vignesh, SIX, a full toss. Misses the yorker, but a couple of feet at least. Nicely onto the bat for a pick-up-and-dispatch over cow corner
16.4
W
Murugan Ashwin to Muruganantham, out Bowled!! Plays all around it. The googly to welcome, too good a welcome for the new man, who just doesn't read it till the very last moment. Backs away, doesn't mind exposing his stumps and looks to cut it away. Nah, it zips in, goes under the bat and takes the top of middle. On a hat-trick now. Muruganantham b Murugan Ashwin 0(1)
16.3
W
Murugan Ashwin to Suresh Kumar, out Lbw!! Now the revenge. The set man now has to go, to a dodgy call. Spins in sharply, keeps coming in and Suresh, reading it off the turf is too late in the end to react as he backs away and takes it on his pad. Surely going down leg. Doesn't matter..MSG in a deeper hole. Suresh Kumar lbw b Murugan Ashwin 39(34) [4s-3 6s-1]
16.2
6
Murugan Ashwin to Suresh Kumar, SIX, this will help the cause. One in the slot, and the long levers are out. Sits down, gets under the ball and slogs it over the bowler's head
14
W
MS Sanjay to Senthilnathan, out Caught&Bowled!! Madurai falling apart here. A nothing delivery really, way too short, and Senthilnathan looks to force it back past the bowler. He could've smacked it wherever he wanted to, ends up mistiming it big time back to the bowler. The slowness of the pitch kicking in. Senthilnathan c and b MS Sanjay 0(2)
13
W
Murugan Ashwin to Francis Rokins, out Francis Rokins Run Out!! Needless. A suicide from Rokins, without even the time to leave a note. Checks his defence as he pushes it out to cover, straight to the fielder and takes off. Is half way down before hearing a denial from his partner and turning back. Not quite helped by Kumar running down a couple of steps in his backing up too. The bowler runs across, gets low and fires it to the keeper. Francis Rokins run out (Murugan Ashwin/N Jagadeesan) 3(6)
11.1
W
MS Sanjay to Shahrukh Khan, out Bowled!! Ugly. Massively ugly. Undone by the flight offered on this one as he looks to sink and go almighty with his slog. Aiming too square as the front leg exposes the stumps too. The stump-to-stump line from Sanjay pays off with the ball sneaking well under the bat for the top of off to get knocked out. Shahrukh Khan b MS Sanjay 13(14) [4s-1]
10.2
4
S Kishan Kumar to Suresh Kumar, FOUR, now the cheek. Another bolt from Kumar, and Suresh takes it from off to use all the pace on it to ramp it very fine
9.5
4
Murugan Ashwin to Suresh Kumar, FOUR, sloppy. Ordinary from point. And Ashwin's over keeps getting over-budgetted. Cracks the cut at the width and takes point's knee to roll into the fence
9.1
4
Murugan Ashwin to Suresh Kumar, FOUR, a juicy warm up. Width, turn, all very slow too. Kumar smartly keeps his wits, pokes the bat out and defts it through the cordon
7.1
4
S Kumar Singh to Shahrukh Khan, FOUR, breaks the boundary-dry barrage. A desperate hack across the line, short-arm jab through cow corner. All power
6
W
S Kumar Singh to Arun Karthik, out Caught by R Vivek!! The skipper now. And Sunny has his third. Vivek has his third catch too. Three dismissals with the identical credits zone. An attempt to soar himself out of trouble, takes it literally. Swings, just not close enough to the pitch of the ball, gets one hand off it too, but refuses to change his approach. Toe-ended up, neither the elevation, nor the distance as mid-off back-pedals and reverse cups it. Arun Karthik c R Vivek b S Kumar Singh 6(12)
5.3
W
S Kumar Singh to Shijit Chandran, out Caught by R Vivek!! Very soft. And Chandran falls to his greed of hitting himself out of trouble. Hitting everything in the air. His luck runs out this time as the ball gropes the outside half of the bat in spooning up to mid-off. A huge blow for Madurai this. Shijit Chandran c R Vivek b S Kumar Singh 4(8)
3.3
W
S Kumar Singh to Sivaramakrishnan, out Caught by R Vivek!! An over-ambitious slap. After playing and missing a few, Sivaramakrishnan loses his calm. Hardly has the width, but looks to go uppish and through the line with a lofted cross drive. A severe mistime in the end as the ball finds a crouched mid-off. A troubled knock. Sivaramakrishnan c R Vivek b S Kumar Singh 14(15) [4s-3]
1.5
4
MS Sanjay to Sivaramakrishnan, FOUR, the other side of point now. Presses forward, spots the drag down and rocks back to keep the bat horizontal in another slash
1.4
4
MS Sanjay to Sivaramakrishnan, FOUR, in the gap now. Doesn't require a misfield to go through. Waits on the ball this time, one that grants the width too and rolls his wrists on it in a late-slap. Behind point
1.3
4
MS Sanjay to Sivaramakrishnan, FOUR, sloppy. A quicker one from Sanjay, keeps coming in as well with the arm as Sivaramakrishnan backs away big time, and chops it square, bursting through the palms of point