Today marked the end of the Pondicherry T20 tournament which can be seen as the feeder league to the feeder league of the IPL…. or as a money laundering scheme depending on your viewpoint.
It was a very one-sided tournament that ended in a very
one-sided. Panthers had won 7 games, lost one and had two called off whilst Sharks
had scraped through to the final with an equal amount of wins and losses across
their ten games.
In a tournament where the Panthers had registered the
biggest win in terms of runs (59 vs Tuskers) and in balls remaining (67 vs……also
the Tuskers) their win by 6 wickets with 4 balls remaining looks comparatively tight.
Oh and, by the way, the Tuskers did finish bottom, yes.
The Panthers really put on a team effort throughout the
tournament which can be seen by the fact their dominance does not carry on into
the individual honours. No batters for the Panthers finished in the Top 4
places on the run scoring table. Atop that tree sat the Bulls’ Marinuthu
Vikneshwaran who scored 457 @ 47.7 with a high score of 73.
On the other hand, the Sharks were very reliant on key
batsmen with both of the top two highest individual scores of the tournament
being Sharks batters. Gonnabatulla Chiranjeevi scored the tournament high of 96…and
then scored 5 today, whilst Mohit Mittan scored 83 early in the tournament and
then was the top scorer in today’s match with a meagre 38.
In a fairly disappointing season for the Tigers, 22 year old
Jullian Jacab was a shining light as he got the most wickets – 19 @ 12.73.
Honourable mention also goes to Bulls’ bowler Bharat Sharma who finished 8th
overall with 11 wickets but posted the eye-catching figures of 2.5-0-7-4
against the Panthers.
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