NPR College Ground, Dindigul
TUTI Patriots
Madurai Panthers
TUTI Patriots
Madurai Panthers
?Madurai Panthers is the defending champion. They are the winner of 2018 TNPL league.
?Madurai Panthers defeated TUTI Patriots in the lone game between both teams in 2018 TNPL.
?In the 2018 edition of TNPL, Tuti Patriots didn’t qualify for the playoffs due to lesser run rate. They end the season at fifth place in the 2018 points table.
?In the last three season of TNPL - Tuti Patriots have the best win records in the league, won 15 games.
CRICBETTINGBUZZ PREDICTION: Madurai Panthers to win this match.
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Tuti Patriots and Madurai Panthers will take on each other in their first game of the Tamil Nadu premier league 2019. Tuti Patriots, who missed the playoffs last year will be keen to set that record right this time. They will look to start the season on high and take an early lead in the point table. On the other hand, Madurai Panthers will enter the tournament as the defending champion and will be high on confidence. They have the core of the team that won the title in 2018 available to them this season too. Both teams would look to find the right balance in the initial game of the tournament.
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Tuti Patriots team has been the most consistent team in TNPL from the inaugural season and would be hoping to carry on their best form in this season as well.
In 2016, the opening season of TNPL, Tuti Patriots were the champion. In the second season, 2017, they were the table topper in the group stage. However, they lost in the final game versus Chepauk super Gillies. In the previous season, the team failed to make it to playoffs, they were at fifth place in point table.
Skipper Washington Sundar is likely to miss the first couple of games for Tuti Patriots as he is currently on the national duty, playing for India A. The all-rounder is the key player for the team, as he has got a great experience of playing in T-20 leagues. In his absence, the responsibility will be on the S Dinesh to lead the team in the batting department.
Bowling unit will be led by Athisayaraj Davidson. Touted as the Tamil version of Lasith Malinga, his awkward bowling action made him an incredibly difficult customer in the death overs. In last season, The Tuti Patriots spearhead picked 13 wickets from seven matches at a remarkable strike-rate of 12.9. He will be eying for similar performance for this season.
Murugeshan Kamlesh (wk), Akshay Srinivasan, V Subramania Siva, Vasanth Saravanan, Subramanian Anand, V Athisayaraj Davidson, Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran, Wilkins Victor, M Ganesh Moorthi, S Dinesh, Nidhish Rajagopal
Skipper D Rohit led team will be looking to put a clinical performance to start their campaign on high. The team got a good bunch of young talented and experienced player in the side.
In batting, The 32-year-old wicket-keeper batsman Arun Karthik was instrumental in helping his side win the 2018 tournament. In the previous season, he played some gem of knocks opening the innings for his team, scored 472 runs in 10 games at a staggering average of about 79. His 75-run knock in the final was a treat to watch. The team will be relying heavily on him to make most of the runs.
In the previous season, Abhishek Tanwar led Madurai Panthers bowling attack quite splendidly. While an economy-rate of 9.06 might seem to be on the expensive side, the right-arm seamer's propensity of getting crucial scalps enabled him to become the leading wicket-taker of the tournament in the previous season. He took 15 wickets by an average of 22.06 in TNPL 2018. Once again the onus will be on him to deliver with the ball.
D Rohit (c), Nilesh Subramanian (wk), Jagatheesan Koushik, Arun Karthik, R Karthikeyan, Thalaivan Sargunam, Shijit Chandran, Varun Chakravarthy, Abhishek Tanvar, Rahil Shah, Kiran Akash
NPR College Ground in Dindigul will host its third match of the TNPL 2019. It has an artificial turf with a seating capacity of 5000 and floodlights. Average score batting first is 157 at this ground. Out of 33 games of TNPL, 22 games were won by batting second, while 11 games batting first. As the chasing team has better win record, the team winning toss will like to chase the score.
We anticipate the team winning toss will certainly look to bowl first.
We expect to be a thrilling game as defending champion will take on the most consistent team in the tournament. However, Madurai Panthers will have an edge considering their performances in the last season. On the other hand, Tuti Patriots will be without the services of their key player - skipper Washington Sunder. Madurai Panthers is the outright favourite based on the head to head stats and star performer in their side. We predict Madurai Panthers will win this match.
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