TN thrash Tripura by 8 wickets

Tamil Nadu thrashed Tripura by eight wickets in a Group 'B' match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 cricket tournament here on Friday.

Electing to bat, Tripura recovered from a nightmarish 9 for 7 in 5.1 overs to make 79 for 8 in the allotted 20 overs, which Tamil Nadu overhauled in 12.1 overs, riding on a breezy knock of 46 (32 balls, 4 fours, 2 sixes) by M S Washington Sundar.

Left-arm spinner R Sai Kishore, opening the attack, was the best bowler with figures of 4 for 6 in 4 overs which included two maidens. His victims were opener Joydeep Banik, Pratyush Singh, Milind Kumar and Kaushal Acharjee.

Barring Acharjee, the others made ducks.

Left-arm seamer T Natarajan scalped three wickets, giving away only 4 runs in his four overs.

Five Tripura batsmen failed to open their account as the team appeared to be in danger of being bowled out for the lowest ever T20 score of 21 (by Turkey against Czech Republic in August this year).

Some dogged batting and big hitting by ...