R Ashwin, ace India spinner, led his team Dindigul Dragons to the TNPL 2024 title, defeating Lyca Kovai Kings in the final on Sunday. Ashwin played a captain’s knock in the final, hitting his 3rd straight half-century in the tournament.
Defending champions Lyca Kovai Kings were asked to bat first by Dragon’s captain R Ashwin. Some extremely good bowling restricted Kings to 129/7 in 20 overs with Ram Arvindh (27), Atheeq Ur Rahman (25), and S Sujay (22) being the main scorers.
Sandeep Warrier, Varun Chakravarthy, and P Vignesh picked two wickets each for the Dindigul Dragons.
Dragons lost both openers Vimal Khumar and Shivam Singh for single-digit scores. But captain R Ashwin came out at the no.3 spot and anchored the innings with a splendid 52 in 46 balls with 3 sixes and one four.
Baba Indrajith (32) and Sarath Kumar (27*) then led the Dragons to an easy win in 18.2 overs as they won the final by 6 wickets and became the TNPL 2024 champions.
Ashwin hit a boundary and three sixes besides stitching a 65-run stand for the third wicket with Baba Indrajith (32 off 35 balls). Having scored 46 runs for the loss of two wickets in the powerplay, the Dindigul middle-order relied on the composed Ashwin to get the job done.
Here are the highlights of R Ashwin’s knock in the final:
While Ashwin was named Player of the Match for his innings, Shahrukh took the series honors for his all-round efforts: 225 runs at a strike rate of 182.92. R Ashwin, the winning captain received the TNPL 2024 trophy at the hands of former India coach Rahul Dravid.
