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Young Tamil Nadu batsman Sai Sudarshan was one of the stars for Hardik Pandya’s Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 season. Sudarshan scored 362 runs in just 8 matches in the IPL 2023 season with three fifties and a strike-rate of 141.4. But it was his innings of 96 against MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the IPL 2023 final which was his most memorable knock in the T20 league.
Sudarshan’s 96 remains the highest score by a GT batsman in an IPL final but could not lift his side to victory. However, the 21-year-old continued his scintillating form in the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) 2023, which began in Coimbatore on Monday.
Batting at the No.3 position for Lyca Kovai Kings, Sudarshan hit four sixes and eight fours on Day 1 of TNPL 2023 – scoring 86 off 45 balls to take his team to 179 for 7.
See Sai Sudarshan completes the first Fifty of the TNPL 2023 season here…
Wasn’t that a clever way to get 50*?#TNPLonFanCode pic.twitter.com/f7nb1Duwjb— FanCode (@FanCode) June 12, 2023
By scoring 14 runs for 3 wickets till the third over, Sudarshan first U.K. Added 82 runs for the fourth wicket with Mukilesh (33). He added 43 runs for the sixth wicket with captain and Punjab Kings batsman M. Shahrukh Khan, who scored 25 off 15 balls.
In reply, Shah Rukh Khan claimed 3/20 and M Mohammed 2/11 as they piled on 109 runs. “It was good to contribute to the team. I am very happy to contribute to the team. We wanted to take the game deeper, that was the plan in that partnership with Mukesh,” Sudarshan, who was the player of the match, said after the game. Said after.
“Running between the wickets is a very important aspect and I am working on that. It was the last over and I wanted to maximize it and luckily it worked out.
Kovai Kings captain Shah Rukh Khan reiterated that the onus will be on him and Sai Sudarshan to score most of the runs for his team in TNPL 2023. Sai and I are there to score runs and others have to contribute. The way Mukilesh played – Hats off to him, it was sticky and the way Sai and Mukilesh played was brilliant,” said Shah Rukh Khan.
“They had two left-arm spinners and we needed a left-arm batsman to counter them – so the impact player was sent in. The more you spin the ball, the more purchase you get – that’s what I Did last year as well and I am following the same. I am bowling well and I have to bowl more. Let’s challenge Vivek Raj to hit the big side, that was the plan and some days it works Some days it doesn’t happen. Today it did,” he said.










