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Medium pacer P Saravana Kumar featured with a fifer as reigning champs Tamil Nadu defeated Hyderabad by eight wickets to cruise into the final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 cricket competition here on Saturday.
The Tamil Nadu bowlers upheld captain Vijay Shankar’s choice to handle first as they packaged out the until recently unbeaten Hyderabad for 90 in 18.3 overs with just Tanay Thyagarajan (25 off 24 balls) arrived at twofold figures.
Saravana did a large portion of the damage forthright as he represented the top request, including rival commander Tanmay Agarwal (1) and the in-form Tilak Varma (8). He got done with the shocking figure of 5 for 21, the subsequent best truly bowling figures behind Rahil Shah’s 5 for 12.
Aside from Saravana, leg-spinner M Ashwin (2/13 from 4 overs) and M Mohammed (2/12 from three overs) helped hold the Hyderabad players under tight restraints. R Sai Kishore (1/19) took the other wicket.
While chasing, Tamil Nadu lost the in-form N Jagadeesan (1) in the third finished and individual opener C Hari Nishaanth (14) in the equivalent over to Rakshann Readdi (2/23).
However, the noteworthy adolescent B Sai Sudharsan (34 not out) and skipper Shankar (43) saw the group home in the fifteenth over with a 76-run partnership for the third wicket.
Sudharsan batted easily and struck a couple sleek shots while Shankar, who began carefully, started hitting the ball intensely subsequent to getting his eye in. He completed the game by crushing a four and six off Rakshann Readdi.
Tamil Nadu anticipates the victor of the Karnataka versus Vidharba semi-final clash in Monday.
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