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Follow UsKarun Nair continued to collect bucket loads of runs in the Maharaja Trophy 2024 as he took the Mysore Warriors to yet another victory in the KSCA T20 competition. The Warriors beat Mangaluru Dragons by six wickets on Wednesday (August 18) in a match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
With this win, the Warriors moved to second place in the points table with 12 points from 10 games. Earlier, Nair starred on Tuesday (August 27) as the Warriors defeated Hubli Tigers by 74 runs to qualify for the tournament playoffs. So far, the 32-year-old has amassed 490 runs with four fifties and a hundred to his name.
In today’s game, chasing the target of 179 to win, Mysore got off to a decent start with a 42-run stand for the first wicket. Nair then joined Karthik SU in the middle to add 93 for the second wicket in just 63 balls. His knock of 31-ball 64 took the game away from the opposition.
Dragons, riding on the back of Krishnamurthy Siddharth’s fifty and essential contributions from Tushar Singh (43) and Lochan Gowda (15-ball 25), managed to post 178/9 in their 20 overs.
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