Skipper R. Sai Kishore has led from the front for Tamil Nadu often this season, and he stood tall again in the semifinal with a fine spell that got his team a sniff of a chance of forging a fightback before it went downhill.
But despite a brutal day on the field for the visitor and irrespective of whether TN progresses, it has been a remarkable season for the 27-year-old.
When he dismissed Ajinkya Rahane, caught at first slip with a typical left-arm spinner delivery that spun and bounced to the right-hander, Sai Kishore became only the third bowler from the state to go past 50 wickets in a season.
