CSG vs DD - Qualifier 2

Author: Shreyas
13 Aug 2021 20:59:26
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Chepauk Super Gillies vs Dindigul Dragons - Qualifier 2 of Tamil Nadu Premier League'2021, at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 

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1. TEAM INFO

Previous season's performances 

Team - Chepauk Super Gillies 

2016 - 2nd (9-6w/3l)
2017 - 1st (9-8w/1l)
2018 - 8th (7-1w/6l)
2019 - 1st (9-7w/2l)

Team - Dindigul Dragons

2016 - 3rd (8-5w/3l)
2017 - 6th (7-2/4l/1nr)
2018 - 2nd (9-6w/3l)
2019 - 2nd (9-7w/2l)


2021 Points Table Scenario 

CSG - 2nd (7-4w/2l/1nr)
DD - 3rd (7-4w/3l)


2021 Top Performers from these two teams

CSG 

Narayan Jagadeesan - 8th highest run scorer (225), Avg (32.14) - 8M/7I
U Sasidev - 17th highest run scorer (138), Avg (19.71) - 8M/7I
S Radhakrishnan - 18th highest run scorer (137), Avg (68.50) - 3M/3I
Rajagopal Satish - 20th highest run scorer (130), Avg (26) - 8M/7
Kaushik Gandhi - 22nd highest run scorer (129), Avg (18.42) - 8M/7I

Manimaran Siddharth - 6th highest wicket taker (9), Avg (18.11), SR (19.8) - 8M/8I
Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore - 10th highest wicket taker (8), Avg (15), SR (15) - 5M/5I
Rajagopal Satish - 16th highest wicket taker (7), Avg (13.42), SR (16.2) - 8M/5I


DD

C Hari Nishaanth - 2nd highest run scorer (312), Avg (39) - 8M/8I
R Vivek - 6th highest run scorer (233), Avg (46.60) - 8M/8I
K Mani Bharathy - 11th highest run scorer (187), Avg (23.37) - 8M/8I
Rajhmany Srinivasan - 25th highest run scorer (122), Avg (20.33) - 6M/6I

Rangaraj Suthesh - 2nd highest wicket taker (11), Avg (17.81), SR (15.8) - 8M/8I
L Vignesh - 16th highest wicket taker (7), Avg (28.85), SR (18.5) - 7M/7I
Gurjapneet Singh - 16th highest wicket taker (7), Avg (29.71), SR (26.4) - 8M/8I


2. VENUE AND PITCH INFO 

Venue - M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 

Total Matches - T20s

Overall - 143

Avg 1st Innings Score - 155
Avg 2nd Innings Score - 140

Highest Score - 246/5 (Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals - 3rd April'2010)


(ii) Performance of both teams on this ground 

CSG - 19-9w/10I
DD - 14-6w/8l

(iii) Recent Matches on this venue 

1) Lyca Kovai Kings vs Dindigul Dragons - 11th August'2021
143/6 vs 144/5 (DD won by 5 wkts)

C Hari Nishaanth - 59(44)
Rajendran Vivek - 52(26)*
Rajhamany Srinivasan - 18(15)
Gurjapneet Singh - 3w
S Swaminathan - 1w
M Silambarasan - 1w
L Vignesh - 1w

Pacers - 4w+3w=7w
Spinners - 2w+2w=4w

2) Chepauk Super Gillies vs Ruby Trichy Warriors - 10th August'2021 
153/3 vs 157/5 (RTW won by 5 wkts)

S Radhakrishnan - 82(54)*
Rajagopal Satish - 29(22)* & 1w
Uthirasamy Sasidev - 22(29)
Manimaran Siddharth - 2w
Dev Rahul - 1w (went for 24 runs in the only over that he bowled)

Pacers - 2w+2w=4w
Spinners - 1w+2w=3w

3) Chepauk Super Gillies vs Ruby Trichy Warriors - 8th August'2021 
132/10 vs 136/3 (RTW won by 7 wkts)

Pacers - 6w+0w=6w
Spinners - 2w+3w=5w

4) Lyca Kovai Kings vs Nellai Royal Kings - 8th August'2021 
169/6 vs 162/8 (LKK won by 7 runs)

Pacers - 2w+4w=6w
Spinners - 4w+3w=7w

5) Salem Spartans vs Nellai Royal Kings - 5th August'2021
120/8 vs 121/2 (NRK won by 8 wkts)

Pacers - 2w+0w=2w
Spinners - 6w+2w=8w

6) Siechem Madurai Panthers vs Chepauk Super Gillies - 4th August'2021 
124/9 vs 125/5 (CSG won by 5 wkts)

Pacers - 3w+2w=5w
Spinners - 5w+3w=8w

7) Dindigul Dragons vs Nellai Royal Kings - 3rd August'2021 
147/5 vs 148/5 (NRK won by 5 wkts)

Pacers - 3w+4w=7w
Spinners - 2w+1w=3w

8) Siechem Madurai Panthers vs iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans - 2nd August'2021
184/4 vs 103/10 (SMP won by 81 runs)

Pacers - 2w+3w=5w
Spinners - 2w+5w=7w

9) Chepauk Super Gillies vs Dindigul Dragons - 1st August'2021
159/7 vs 135/8 (CSG won by 24 runs)

Pacers - 3w+1w=4w
Spinners - 2w+5w=7w

10) Salem Spartans vs Ruby Trichy Warriors - 1st August'2021
116/8 vs 120/4 (RTW won by 6 wkts)

Pacers - 5w+3w=8w
Spinners - 3w+0w=3w

11) iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans vs Lyca Kovai Kings - 31st July'2021 
162/7 vs 160/8 (ITT won by 2 runs)

Pacers - 4w+4w=8w
Spinners - 3w+3w=6w

12) Dindigul Dragons vs Salem Spartans - 30th July'2021
185/6 vs 109/10 (DD won by 76 runs)

Pacers - 4w+5w=9w
Spinners - 2w+3w=5w

13) iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans vs Ruby Trichy Warriors - 29th July'2021 
110/8 vs 111/3 (RTW won by 7 wkts)

Pacers - 7w+1w=8w
Spinners - 1w+2w=3w

14) Lyca Kovai Kings vs Siechem Madurai Panthers - 28th July'2021 
172/5 vs 153/8 (LKK won by 19 runs)

Pacers - 4w+2w=6w
Spinners - 1w+6w=7w

15) Salem Spartans vs Chepauk Super Gillies - 28th July'2021 
142/7 vs 145/6 (CSG won by 4 wkts)

Pacers - 4w+3w=7w
Spinners - 3w+3w=6w


Total Summary 

Pacers
1st Innings - 51w
2nd Innings - 34w

Spinners
1st Innings - 32w
2nd Innings - 44w

Overall
85w:76w (Pacers:Spinners)


NOTE - 7 out of the Last 10 Matches have been won by the team chasing, and the spinners and pacers have both played equal roles. 

(iv) Toss Based Analysis on this venue 

Chepauk Super Gillies (CSG)

1. Bharath Arun
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 2w

2. Rajagopal Satish 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0(4)&0w, 18(13)&1w, 2(12)&0w, 4(8)&0w, 11(9)&0w, 13(11), 29(22)*&1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0(1)&2w, 17(8)*&0w, 0(1)&0w, 7(7)&1w, 26(18)*&1w, 11(13)*&2w, 23(16)*&1w, 30(12)*&0w, 15(18), 5(9), 3(4)&2w, 1(3)&1w

3. R Alexander
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2w, 2w, 0w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 0w

4. Arun Kumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w, 2w, 1(2)&0w

5. Kaushik Gandhi 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 20(11), 7(10), 86(55)&0w, 59(43), 46(33), 24(19), 22(24), 1(7), 45(31), 8(7)&1w, 1(3)&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 9(11), 45(37), 0(3)

6. S Harish Kumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 25(16)&2w, 0(2)&1w, 27(12)&2w, 1w, 1(2)&0w, 6(9)&1w, 7(6)&0w, 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w, 20(15)&0w, 46(26)&2w, 13(12)&2w, 3(2)*&0w, 4w, 11(8)&2w, 3(2)*&0w, 4(8)&1w, 27(14)*&2w

7. Narayan Jagadeesan 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 44(40), 51(44), 95(70), 40(27), 6(16), 14(13)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 10(8), 0(3), 18(15), 11(13), 52(40)

8. R Nilesh Subramanian
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 25(18), 57(56)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 49(42), 4(7)

9. RS Jaganath Srinivas
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w, 19(9)*&0w, 14(14)&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 8(5)*&0w

10. S Radhakrishnan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 55(50), 82(54)*
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0(1)

11. Dev Rahul
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

12. Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 2w, 1w, 4w, 1w, 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w, 2w, 10(10)*&1w, 0(2)&1w, 5w, 1w, 2w, 2w

13. Sandeep Warrier 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

14. Uthirasamy Sasidev
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 18(12)*, 16(10), 2(7), 6(6), 44(33), 20(14), 29(24), 2(2), 23(29)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0(1), 0(1), 31(20), 12(13), 30(22)*, 30(20), 23(19), 42(30)

15. Sonu Yadav
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 4w, 1w, 9(8)&0w, 0w, 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 3w

16. Manimaran Siddharth
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 14(6)&0w, 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w

17. S Sujay
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0(1), 9(5)*
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 10(17)

18. V Sai Prakash
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

19. H Prasidh Akash 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

20. V Santhana Sekar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

21. S Vijayakumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

22. R Ram Arvindh
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 


Dindigul Dragons (DD)

1. K Vishal Vaidhya
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 10(17), 15(18), 1(4)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

2. S Arun
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 7(7), 1(9)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 20(16), 19(27)

3. Advaith Sharma
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

4. R Suthesh
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2w, 2w, 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w, 1w, 2w, 0w

5. S Swaminathan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2(6), 5(3)&2w, 3(3)*&1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w, 17(11)*&0w, 11(6)*&1w, 0w, 1w

6. L Vignesh
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 2w, 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w, 0w, 1w, 1w

7. R Srinivasan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 15(21), 2(4), 19(20), 5(8), 14(12), 60(48)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 7(14), 1(3), 18(15)

8. RS Mokit Hariharan 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 11(19), 32(15)*, 3(6)&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0(2)&0w, 41(26)*, 21(20)*, 0(1)

9. S Lokeshwar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 48(46)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 9(10)*, 9(15), 5(6), 9(13)

10. C Ashwin
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

11. C Hari Nishaanth
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 18(21), 27(21), 1(2), 19(24), 52(32), 2(4)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 2(4), 4(11), 70(37)&0w, 38(26), 33(25)&0w, 59(44)

12. MS Sanjay
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 0w, 0w, 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w

13. V Lakshman
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

14. K Mani Bharathy
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 26(23), 0(1), 30(24)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 81(32), 9(11), 24(21), 1(4)

15. AR Siva Murugan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

16. R Vivek
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 18(10), 13(10), 11(13)&2w, 59(41)&0w, 32(23)*
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 36(13)&1w, 23(15), 0(1)&0w, 6(4)&1w, 57(28)*&1w, 52(26)*&0w

17. M Silambarasan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2(3)&3w, 0w, 1w, 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 1w

18. Gurjapneet Singh
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w, 1w, 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w, 2w, 1w, 3w

19. R Vimal Khumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

20. S Kishan Kumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

21. S Vigneshwaran
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 


2. HEAD TO HEAD 

(i) Overall
7 - 5w/2l (In favour of CSG)

(ii) Last 5 Matches
5 - 3w/2l (In favour of CSG)

(iii) On This Venue
1 - 1w/0l (In favour of CSG)


(iv) Recent Head to Head Matches 

1) Chepauk Super Gillies vs Dindigul Dragons - 1st August'2021 
159/7 vs 135/8 (CSG won by 24 runs)

Kaushik Gandhi - 45(31)
Narayan Jagadeesan - 40(27)
Uthirasamy Sasidev - 29(24)
Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore - 4w
Sandeep Warrier - 1w
S Harish Kumar - 1w
C Hari Nishaanth - 39(31)
Rajhamany Srinivasan - 24(25)
S Arun - 18(17)
M Silambarasan - 2w
RS Mokit Hariharan - 1w
L Vignesh - 1w
Rangaraj Suthesh - 1w

Pacers - 3w+1w=4w
Spinners - 2w+5w=7w

2) Chepauk Super Gillies vs Dindigul Dragons - 15th August'2019 
126/8 vs 114/9 (CSG won by 12 runs)

Pacers - 3w+6w=9w
Spinners - 2w+3w=5w

3) Chepauk Super Gillies vs Dindigul Dragons - 11th August'2019
169/7 vs 164/7 (CSG won by 5 runs)

Pacers - 2w+3w=5w
Spinners - 4w+2w=6w

4) Dindigul Dragons vs Chepauk Super Gillies - 19th July'2019
115/9 vs 105/9 (DD won by 10 runs)

Pacers - 5w+4w=9w
Spinners - 3w+5w=8w

5) Chepauk Super Gillies vs Dindigul Dragons - 3rd August'2018 
120/10 vs 121/1 (DD won by 9 wkts)

Pacers - 3w+0w=3w
Spinners - 7w+1w=8w


(v) Toss Based Analysis (H2H)

Chepauk Super Gillies (CSG)

1. Bharath Arun
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

2. Rajagopal Satish 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1(3)&0w, 11(9)&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

3. R Alexander
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 0w, 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 2w, 10(10)*&3w

4. Arun Kumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

5. Kaushik Gandhi 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 5(14), 22(24), 45(31)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0(1)

6. S Harish Kumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 8(5)&0w, 8(4)&1w, 1w, 6(9)&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 15(14)&0w

7. Narayan Jagadeesan 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 53(42), 17(21), 40(27)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 60(53), 63(43)*, 37(24), 0(3)

8. R Nilesh Subramanian
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

9. RS Jaganath Srinivas
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

10. S Radhakrishnan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

11. Dev Rahul
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w

12. Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 4w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w

13. Sandeep Warrier 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

14. Uthirasamy Sasidev
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 4(3), 2(2), 26(19), 44(33), 29(24)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 45(32), 13(24)

15. Sonu Yadav
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 6(14)&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

16. Manimaran Siddharth
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w, 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 12(20)&1w

17. S Sujay
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 9(5)*
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

18. V Sai Prakash
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

19. H Prasidh Akash 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

20. V Santhana Sekar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

21. S Vijayakumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

22. Ajith Kumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 


Dindigul Dragons

1. K Vishal Vaidhya
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

2. S Arun
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 18(17)

3. Advaith Sharma
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

4. Rangaraj Suthesh
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w

5. S Swaminathan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0(1)&0w

6. L Vignesh
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 5(6)&1w

7. Rajhmany Srinivasan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 24(25)

8. RS Mokit Hariharan 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 3(5)&1w

9. S Lokeshwar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

10. C Ashwin
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

11. C Hari Nishaanth
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1(4)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 34(30)&1w, 29(32)&2w, 4(11), 39(31)

12. MS Sanjay
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 4w

13. V Lakshman
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

14. K Mani Bharathy
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 16(18)

15. AR Siva Murugan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

16. R Vivek
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 11(4), 4(5)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1(2)*, 20(9)*, 20(11), 23(15), 16(9)&0w

17. M Silambarasan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 4w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 3w, 1w, 0w, 2w

18. Gurjapneet Singh
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w

19. R Vimal Khumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

20. S Kishan Kumar
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

21. S Vigneshwaran
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 


3. SQUAD INFO WITH DETAILING 

A) CHEPAUK SUPER GILLIES (CSG) SQUAD: 

Probable XI

1) Narayan Jagadeesan - RHB, WK
Last 10 - 14, 6, 9, 40, 52, 95, 48, 30, 27, 11

2) Kaushik Gandhi - RHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 1r 0w, 8r 1w, 10, 45, 0, 1, 17, 19, 8, 60, 3*, 7, 22

3) S Radhakrishnan - RHB, Legbreak 
Last 10 - 82*, 55, 0, 30, 0, 6, 7, 65, 34

4) Rajagopal Satish - RHB, RM
Last 10 - 29r 1w, 13, 64, 11r 0w, 1r 1w, 4r 0w, 17r 0w, 0w, 10r 0w, 44r 0w

5) RS Jaganath Srinivas - LHB, RFM
Last 10 - 14r 0w, 7r 1w, 0, 8r 0w, 19r 0w, 1w, 15r 0w, 12r 0w, 3w

6) Uthirasamy Sasidev - LHB, Legbreak 
Last 10 - 23, 2, 4, 29, 42, 20, 44, 26, 27

7) S Harish Kumar - RHB, RMF
Last 10 - 0w, 7r 0w, 15*, 6r 1w, 27r 2w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 3w, 23r 2w

8) R Sai Kishore - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 0w, 1w, 31r 2w, 4w, 0w, 29r 1w, 0w, 29r 1w, 1w, 0w

9) Manimaran Siddharth - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 2w, 1w, 4w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 3w, 0w, 4w, 2w

10) R Alexander - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 1w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 0w

11) Sandeep Warrier - RHB, RMF
Last 10 - 1w, 2w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 2w, 0w, 2w, 2w
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Sonu Yadav/Dev Rahul


BENCH 

12) Ajith Kumar - RHB, LAO
Last 10 - 

13) Arun Kumar - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 1w

14) R Nilesh Subramanian - LHB, WK
Last 10 - 12, 8, 0, 31, 11, 9*, 3, 2, 1*

15) Prashid Akash - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 

16) Sonu Yadav - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 0w, 1w, 0w, 6r 0w, 3w, 9r 0w, 1w, 37r 0w, 0w, 1w

17) S Sujay - LHB, Legbreak 
Last 10 - 9, 9*, 10, 0, 34, 6*, 0, 2r 1w

18) Sai Prakash - RHB, Legbreak 
Last 10 - 

19) Dev Rahul - RHB, RMF
Last 10 - 1w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 1w

20) V Santhana Sekar - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 

21) M Vijay Kumar - RHB, Legbreak 
Last 10 -

22) Bharat Arun - RHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 0w, 0w, 0w, 2w, 2w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 2w


Safe C/VC choices
Narayan Jagadeesan, Kaushik Gandhi


B) DINDIGUL DRAGONS (DD) SQUAD:

Unavailable - Ravichandran Ashwin (On National Duty)

Probable XI

1) C Hari Nishaanth - LHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 59, 33r 0w, 2, 52, 38, 70, 19, 6, 4, 35, 4, 17

2) Suresh Lokeshwar - RHB, WK
Last 10 - 9, 5, 9, 9*, 0, 40, 26*, 20, 51*

3) Rajhamany Srinivasan - RHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 18, 1, 60, 14, 5, 7, 21, 0, 14, 4

4) RS Mokit Hariharan - LHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 0, 21*, 3r 0w, 32*, 41*, 0r 0w, 11

5) S Swaminathan - RHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 1w, 0w, 1w, 5r 1w, 11r 1w, 17*, 2, 1w

6) K Mani Bharathy - RHB, WK
Last 10 - 1, 24, 30, 0, 9, 81, 26, 13, 6*, 18*

7) Rajendran Vivek - RHB, RMF
Last 10 - 52r 0w, 57r 1w, 32*, 59r 0w, 6r 1w, 0r 0w, 11r 2w, 23, 1w

8) L Vignesh - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 1w, 1w, 2w, 2w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 3w, 1w

9) Gurjapneet Singh - RHB, LFM
Last 10 - 3w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 0w

10) M Silambarasan - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 1w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 3w, 1w

11) R Suthesh - LHB, LM
Last 10 - 0w, 2w, 2w, 2w, 1w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 1w, 0w


BENCH 

12) V Lakshman - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 0w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 0w

13) Advaith Sharma - RHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 

14) S Arun - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 1, 19, 20, 7, 12, 0w, 27, 29, 4

15) C Ashwin - RHB, Legbreak 
Last 10 - 

16) S Kishan Kumar - LHB, Legbreak 
Last 10 - 1w, 25r 2w, 5r 1w, 4r 1w, 14r 0w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 1w

17) Siva Murugan - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 

18) MS Sanjay - RHB, LAO
Last 10 - 2r 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 28r 1w, 0w, 0w

19) K Vishal Vaidhya - LHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 4, 15, 51, 10, 2, 6, 27, 1, 7, 24

20) S Vigneshwaran - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 

21) Vimal Khumar - LHB
Last 10 -


Safe C/VC choices
C Hari Nishaanth, R Vivek 


Differential C/VC choices 

CSG - M Siddharth, S Radhakrishnan, Rajagopal Satish, R Sai Kishore

DD - K Mani Bharathy, Rajhamany Srinivasan, Rangaraj Suthesh, L Vignesh


My Fantasy Team (SL)
(Pre Toss)

Wk - Jagadeesan
Bat - Srinivasan, Gandhi, Nishaanth, Radhakrishnan 
AR - Satish, Vivek, Vignesh
Bowl - Sai Kishore, Siddharth, Silambarasan 

Options - K Mani Bharathy, Gurjapneet Singh

GL Picks - S Swaminathan, S Lokeshwar, S Harish Kumar, U Sasidev, R Suthesh, R Sonu Yadav

Predictions - (May or May Not Work, only for Risky Players for GL teams)
1. Chepauk Super Gillies to win. 
2. Narayan Jagadeesan and Kaushik Gandhi to perform well. 
3. Atleast one of Siddharth or Sai Kishore to do well.
4. C Hari Nishaanth and R Vivek safe options from DD. 
5. R Srinivasan and S Radhakrishnan must try in GL as punt picks. 
6. K Mani Bharathy Hit or Miss
7. R Suthesh must try in GL.
8. R Satish to do well as an All Rounder. 

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Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:23:26 GMT
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Mon, 03 Mar 2025 04:15:56 GMT
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Mon, 03 Mar 2025 03:23:23 GMT
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Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:16:04 GMT
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Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:26:10 GMT
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Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:34:14 GMT
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:21:13 GMT
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:07:42 GMT
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 02:35:39 GMT
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Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:45:25 GMT
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Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:45:24 GMT
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