Tamil Nadu cricket team
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| Captain: | Abhinav Mukund |
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| 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.
- M. J. Gopalan
- Cotah Ramaswami
- C. D. Gopinath
- A. G. Kripal Singh
- S. Venkataraghavan
- T. E. Srinivasan
- V. V. Kumar
- M. Venkataramana
- T. A. Sekhar
- V. B. Chandrasekhar
- Bharath Reddy
- Krishnamachari Srikkanth
- Bharat Arun
- Vijay Shankar
- K. Balakrishnan Krishnan
- Robin Singh
- Woorkeri Raman
- Sadagoppan Ramesh
- Thiru Kumaran
- Sridharan Sriram
- Hemang Badani
- Lakshmipathy Balaji
- Dinesh Karthik
- Subramaniam Badrinath
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- Abhinav Mukund
- Murali Vijay
- Murali Kartik
Current squad
- Players with international caps are listed in bold.
| 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
- ↑ "Ranji Trophy winners list : Teams who have won most Indian championships". http://www.fastcricket.com. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "MA Chidambaram Stadium | India | Cricket Grounds | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2016-10-20.