Tamil Nadu cricket team

Tamil Nadu cricket team
Personnel
Captain Abhinav Mukund
Coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar
Owner Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Team information
Colours      Yellow      Dark Blue
Founded 1930
Home ground MA Chidambaram Stadium
Capacity 50,000
History
Ranji Trophy wins 2
Irani Trophy wins 1
Deodhar Trophy wins 1
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins 5
Official website: TNCA

The Tamil Nadu cricket team is a domestic cricket team run by Tamil Nadu Cricket Association representing the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The team plays in Ranji Trophy, the top tier of the domestic first-class cricket tournament in India. Before renaming of Madras state to Tamil Nadu, the team was known as Madras until the 1970-71 season. They have won the Ranji Trophy twice and have finished runners-up nine times.[1]

Home ground

The team is based at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, named after a former president of the BCCI. Established in 1916, it has a capacity of 38,000 and had floodlights installed in 1996.[2]

Famous players

Players from Tamil Nadu who have played for India.

Current squad

No. Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
Abhinav Mukund 6 January 1990 Left-handed Right-arm leg break First Class Captain
Ganga Sridhar Raju 25 April 1993 Left-handed Right-arm leg break
Murali Vijay 1 April 1984 Right-handed Right-arm off break Plays for Kings XI Punjab
Srikkanth Anirudha 14 April 1987 Right-handed Plays for Chennai Super Kings
Kaushik Gandhi 23 February 1990 Right-handed Right-arm off break
L Suryaprakash 27 September 1989 Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Baba Indrajith 8 July 1994 Right-handed Right-arm leg break
All-rounders
Vijay Shankar 26 January 1991 Right-handed Right-arm medium Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad
List A and Twenty20 Captain
Rajagopal Sathish 14 January 1981 Right-handed Right-arm medium
Antony Dhas 14 October 1988 Right-handed Right-arm medium
Ramalingam Rohit 3 May 1992 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
J Kousik 23 May 1995 Right-handed Right-arm medium
S Harish Kumar Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
R Sanjay Yadav Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox Plays for Kolkata Knight Riders
Ravichandran Ashwin 17 September 1986 Right-handed Right-arm off break Plays for Rising Pune Supergiants
Baba Aparajith 8 July 1994 Right-handed Right-arm off break Plays for Rising Pune Supergiants
Washington Sundar 9 October 1999 Left-handed Right-arm off breakPlays for Rising Pune Supergiants
Wicket-keepers
Dinesh Karthik 1 June 1985 Right-handed Plays for Gujarat Lions
Narayan Jagadeesan 24 December 1995Right-handed
Bowlers
Murugan Ashwin 8 September 1990 Right-handed Right-arm leg break Plays for Delhi Daredevils
Rahil Shah 20 October 1985 Right-handed Slow left arm orthodox
Aushik Srinivas 16 March 1993 Right-handed Slow left arm orthodox
R Sai Kishore 6 November 1996 Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox
Malolan Rangarajan 22 April 1989 Right-handed Right-arm off break
T Natarajan 27 May 1991 Left-handed Left-arm medium Plays for Kings XI Punjab
Lakshminarayanan Vignesh 20 March 1989 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
M Mohammed 3 December 1991 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Aswin Crist 9 July 1994 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Krishnamoorthy Vignesh 9 September 1994 Right-handed Right-arm medium

Records

For more details on this topic, see List of Tamil Nadu first-class cricket records, List of Tamil Nadu List A cricket records, List of Tamil Nadu Twenty20 cricket records.

References

  1. "Ranji Trophy winners list : Teams who have won most Indian championships". http://www.fastcricket.com. External link in |website= (help)
  2. "MA Chidambaram Stadium | India | Cricket Grounds | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2016-10-20.


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