TNPL 2016: Top 5 performers of the week 1 (August 24-31)

MK Siva Kumar

It only took 8 matches for the Tamil Nadu Premier League to witness the first hat-trick of the tournament and MK Siva Kumar of Lyca Kovai Kings provided it to help his side claim their first win of the tournament. The medium pacer derailed the Albert Tuti Patriots batting after they won the toss and elected to bat.

After K Vignesh opened the floodgates in the fifth over, Patriots continued to lose wickets at crucial intervals. Yet, when Siva Kumar came in to bowl his third over, Patriots were 82/4 in 17 overs and looked on course to finish with a total in excess of 100 at the very least. But that then Siva Kumar dismissed Maaruthi Raghav, Washington Sundar and Akash Sumra in consecutive balls to pick up his first hat-trick.

While Maaruthi perished trying to go big, it was the slower ball that saw Washington go back to the pavilion. And although he didn't know it was the hat-trick ball, the medium pacer came up with the perfect yorker to claim the wicket Akash and get his hat-trick. He eventually finished with figures of 3.5-0-10-3 and bowl out Patriots for 95 and help the Kovai Kings win by nine wickets.