Tamil Nadu cricket team

Tamil Nadu cricket team
Captain: Abhinav Mukund
Coach: Hrishikesh Kanitkar
Colours:      Yellow      Dark Blue
Owner: Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Founded: 1930
Home ground: MA Chidambaram Stadium
Capacity: 50,000
Ranji Trophy wins: 2
Irani Trophy wins: 1
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins: 4
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
Captain & Opening Batsmen
Abhinav Mukund 6 January 1990 Left-handed Right-arm leg break
Batsmen
Baba Indrajith 8 July 1994 Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Murali Vijay 1 April 1984 Right-handed Right-arm off break
Balaji sankar 17 June 1997 Right-handed Right-arm off break
All-rounders
Baba Aparajith 8 July 1994 Right-handed Right-arm off break Plays for Rising Pune Supergiants
Ravichandran Ashwin 17 September 1986 Right-handed Right-arm off break Plays for Rising Pune Supergiants
Malolan Rangarajan 22 April 1989 Right-handed Right-arm off break
Rajagopal Sathish 14 January 1981 Right-handed Right-arm medium Plays for Kolkata Knight Riders
Vijay Shankar 26 January 1991 Right-handed Right-arm medium
J Kousik 23 May 1995 Right-handed Right-arm medium
Wicket-keepers
Dinesh Karthik 1 June 1985 Right-handed Plays for Gujarat Lions
Bowlers
Lakshmipathy Balaji 27 September 1981 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Plays for Kings XI Punjab
Aswin Crist 9 July 1994 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Prasanth Parameswaran 30 May 1985 Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast
Rahil Shah 20 October 1985 Right-handed Slow left arm orthodox
Aushik Srinivas 16 March 1993 Right-handed Slow left arm orthodox
M Mohammed 3 December 1991 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Krishnamoorthy Vignesh 9 September 1994 Right-handed Right-arm medium

Apart from this players, Washington Sundar is opening with Abhinav Mukund in the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy. N.Jagadeesan is keeping the wickets in the same season whereas Dinesh Karthik is playing as a pure batsman due to his injury.

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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