2018 Tamil Nadu Premier League

The 2018 season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League is the third edition of the TNPL, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Tamil Nadu, India. The league was formed by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) in 2016.[1]

Tamil Nadu Premier League 2018
Dates11 July 2018 (2018-07-11) – 12 August 2018 (2018-08-12)
Administrator(s)Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Cricket formatTwenty20
Tournament format(s)Round Robin and Playoffs
Host(s)tamilnadu
ChampionsMadurai Panthers ( 1st Title )
Runners-upDindigul Dragons
Participants8
Matches32
Most runs472 runs ( Arun Karthik ) Siechem Madurai Panthers
Most wickets15 wickets ( AB Tanwar ) Siechem Madurai Panthers
Official websiteTamil Nadu Premier League
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Teams

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Team City Captain Coach
Chepauk Super Gillies Chennai Vijay Shankar Hemang Badani
Kovai Kings Coimbatore T Natarajan Lance Klusener
Dindigul Dragons Dindigul Ravichandran Ashwin M. Venkataramana
Trichy Warriors Tiruchirapalli Baba Indrajith Tinu Yohannan and Brett Lee
Karaikudi Kaalai Karaikudi Subramaniam Badrinath Robin Singh
Madurai Super Giants Madurai Abhishek Tanwar Michael Bevan
Tuti Patriots Thoothukudi Washington Sundar Monty Desai
VB Kanchi Veerans Tiruvallur Baba Aparajith

Source: Cricbuzz[2]

Squads

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Chepauk Super Gillies Kovai Kings Dindigul Dragons Madurai Super Giants Karaikudi Kaalai Trichy Warriors VB Kanchi Veerans Tuti Patriots
  • Vijay Shankar
  •  Gopinath
  •  Murugan Ashwin
  •  S Harish Kumar
  •  Ganga Sridhar Raju
  •  Sunny Kumar Singh
  •  Samruddh Bhat
  •  Arun Kumar
  •  R Vishaal
  •  M Siddharth
  •  MK Sivakumar
  •  S Karthik
  •  R Alexander
  •  Uthirasamy Sasidev
  •  Baskaran Rahul
  •  A Aarif
  •  Manav Parakh
  •  Sai Sudharsan
  •  B Arun
  • T. Natarajan
  •  Abhinav Mukund
  •  Shahrukh Khan
  •  Akkil Srinaath
  • Ashwin Venkataraman
  •  R Sathyanarayan
  •  Antony Dhas
  •  Krishnamoorthy Vignesh
  •  M Raja
  •  S Ajith Ram
  •  Ravi Kumar Rohith
  •  Suresh Babu
  •  Pradosh Ranjan Paul
  •  S Manigandan
  •  R Mithun
  •  Muhammed Khan
  •  Prasanth Rajesh
  •  Sumant Jain
  •  J Suresh Kumar
  • Ravichandran Ashwin
  •  NS Chaturved
  •  C Hari Nishaanth
  •  Balchander Anirudh
  •  Adithya Arun
  •  M Silambarasan
  •  Trilok Nag
  •  ME Yazh Arun Mozhi
  •  Jagannathan Kaushik
  •  Nivethan Radhakrishnan
  •  M Mohammed
  •  Ramalingam Rohit
  •  N Jagadeesan
  •  R Vivek
  •  Ra Aravind
  •  N Ramakrishnan
  •  Varun Totadri
  •  M Sujendran
  •  Mohan Abhinav
  • S Ganesh
  •  Dinesh Karthik
  •  Srikkanth Anirudha
  •  Yo Mahesh
  •  R Kavin
  •  L Suryaprakash
  •  Velidi Lakshman
  •  S Kishan Kumar
  •  S Radhakrishnan
  •  Maan Bafna
  •  Ashwath Mukumthan
  •  S Swaminathan
  •  T Ajith Kumar
  •  M Shajahan
  •  V Aditya
  •  R Rajkumar
  •  S Mohan Prasath
  •  P Murgesh
  •  Rajhamany Srinivasan
  • K Vishal Vaidhya
  • Aushik Srinivas
  •  V Subramania Siva
  •  U Mukilesh
  •  Sunil Sam
  •  K Deeban Lingesh
  •  S Siddharth
  •  P Francis Rokins
  •  RS Mokit Hariharan
  •  Baba Aparajith
  •  R Silambarasan
  •  S Arun
  •  Sanjay Yadav
  •  Suresh Lokeshwar
  •  S Ashwath
  •  S Chandrashekar
  •  R Divakar
  •  C Shriram
  •  U Vishal

Fixtures and match summary

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The schedule of the round robin matches is provided below in details.[3]

Tournament results

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Points table

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  •   advanced to the playoffs
Team Played Won Lost Tie NR Points NRR
Dindigul Dragons 7 5 2 0 0 10 +0.992
Madurai Panthers 7 5 2 0 0 10 +0.124
Lyca Kovai Kings 7 4 3 0 0 8 +0.577
Karaikudi Kaalai 7 4 3 0 0 8 +0.505
Tuti Patriots 7 4 3 0 0 8 −0.432
Ruby Trichy Warriors 7 4 3 0 0 8 −0.011
VB Kanchi Veerans 7 1 6 0 0 2 −0.870
Chepauk Super Gillies 7 1 6 0 0 2 −1.621

References

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  1. ^ "Tamil Nadu Premier League". TNCA. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Teams in TNPL". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  3. ^ "2018 Tamil Nadu Premier League-Fixtures". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 15 July 2018.