Madurai Panthers will lock horns against Lyca Kovai Kings in the Eliminator of the ongoing Tamil Nadu Premier League at the SCF Cricket Ground, Salem on Tuesday.
Madurai Panthers had finished in third place in the points table with five wins in seven matches.
On the other hand, Lyca Kovai Kings won four matches and finished in fourth place in the standings. It will be an eliminator contest and both teams will want to be at their best as there will be no second chances.
Meanwhile, Madurai Panthers had won their previous match against Ruby Trichy Warriors by 36 runs. MP had posted 136 runs on the board but they came up with a fine bowling performance to skittle out the opposition at 100 runs. Sunny Sandhu had come up with an all-around performance as he had added the finishing touches and also took one wicket.
Lyca Kovai Kings have won their previous two matches and they will look to continue the winning momentum. LKK won their last game against the table-toppers Nellai Royal Kings by five runs and this would have given them a lot of confidence. Suresh Kumar had scored a fine knock of 75 runs and he will look to continue the good show.
Match Prediction: Madurai Panthers might enter the contest as favorites against Lyca Kovai Kings.
Madurai Panthers squad
R Mithun, V Gowtham, PS Nirmal Kumar, NS Chaturvedi, P Praveen Kumar, B. Anirudh Sita Ram, KB Arun Karthik, R Rohit, R Aushik Srinivas, J Kousik, DT Chandrasekar, V Aaditya, R Silambarasan, M Shahjahan, K Deeban Lingesh, Varun Chakravarthy, L Kiran Akash, Jhathavedh Subrahmanyan, K Rajkumar, P Sugendhiran, P K Saravanan, B Rocky.
LYCA Kovai Kings squad
P Shijit Chandran, J Suresh Kumar, J Gowjith Subash, K Vignesh, GR Manish, R Kavin, G Aravindh, V Ganga Sridhar Raju, U Mukilesh, Abhishek Tanwar, MA Atheeq Ur Rahman, N Selva Kumaran, Ashwin Venkataraman, B Sai Sudharsan, Nishaanth Kumar Alwar, Shahrukh Khan, Thangarasu Natarajan, S Ajith Ram, E Srinivasan, K Kiran Kasshyap, S Anandakumar, V Yudheeswaran.
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