Swapnil Singh produced a tremendous all-round efficiency, first an excellent 14-ball 45 (2×4, 5×6) adopted by a miserly spell (4-0-26-2) to assist Chepauk Super Gillies thrash Nellai Royal Kings by 41 runs in a TNPL-9 league match on the Sri Ramakrishna College floor right here on Monday.
It was the second successive win for Super Gillies who’re main the desk with 4 factors from two matches.
Asked to bat first, Super Gillies amassed 212 for seven — the fourth-highest complete within the league — driving on helpful cameos from 4 of the top-six batters.
Opener Okay. 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 reducing the pacers. Against the spinners, he lofted cleanly down the bottom and He acquired to his half-century with a swept six over sq. leg off left-arm spinner Sachin Rathi.
However, 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 celebration 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 time he was out within the remaining over, CSG had crossed 200.
In reply, Royal Kings’ chase was by no means on observe and was lowered to 46 for 3 with Swapnil putting twice within the sixth over and will by no means recuperate from it.
The scores:
Chepauk Super Gillies 212/7 in 20 overs (Okay. 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.).
Published – June 09, 2025 11:17 pm IST
