It will have been a irritating and surreal blur for iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans, as B. Sai Sudharsan slammed a spectacular hundred (123 n.o., 56b, 9×4, 9×6) for Lyca Kovai Kings to chase down 200 with seven wickets and 7 balls to spare in Qualifier-1 and storm into the ultimate of the eighth season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) on the NPR Faculty cricket floor in Natham on Tuesday.
As if a person possessed, he rose to the large event, and produced an innings of hovering majesty!
Versus tempo, he flicked, square-cut, performed inside-out, straight-drove, and punched on the backfoot for boundaries. He pulled left-arm spinner S. Ajith Ram for a six to deep sq. leg and even introduced up his fifty with a flat six off him over lengthy off.
With 71 wanted off 30 balls, he manufactured a six as he went down on a knee and slogged medium-pacer R. Rohit to deep midwicket.
When he was on 72, he skied his pull to deep midwicket off left-arm spinner R. Sai Kishore, however Amit Sathvik and Ajith Ram collided and dropped the prospect and three runs have been conceded. A ball later, he hit three consecutive sixes.
The primary a hammered bunt off a large supply, the second a pull for a high-and-handsome long-off six, and the third a contemptuous kitchen-sink over cowl. Emboldened, he tried a six once more, however was dropped on 93 by Radhakrishnan, who got here operating in from lengthy off.
Within the subsequent over, he climbed throughout a T. Natarajan quick supply and pulled it massively to deep midwicket to convey up the second-fastest century in TNPL historical past!
Thereafter, as he put the ending touches to lastly go away everybody gobsmacked, there was a exceptional whiplash of a wristy reduce for a six over the leaping fielder at deep cowl off medium-pacer P. Bhuvaneswaran.
The scores (Qualifier-1):
iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans 200/3 in 20 overs (Amit Sathivik 67, Tushar Raheja 55, Mohamed Ali 45 n.o.) misplaced to Lyca Kovai Kings 201/3 in 18.5 overs (Sai Sudharsan 123 n.o., U Mukilesh 48 n.o.).