Tamil Nadu cricket team
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Captain: | Abhinav Mukund |
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Coach: | Woorkeri Raman |
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.
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 50,000 and had floodlights installed in 1996.
Famous players
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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
- Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
- 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 | |
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Batsmen | ||||||
Baba Indrajith | 8 July 1994 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |||
Abhinav Mukund | 6 January 1990 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | Captain | ||
Ramaswamy Prasanna | 7 April 1982 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | |||
Murali Vijay | 1 April 1984 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |||
All-rounders | ||||||
Baba Aparajith | 8 July 1994 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |||
Ravichandran Ashwin | 17 September 1986 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |||
Malolan Rangarajan | 22 April 1989 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |||
Rajagopal Sathish | 14 January 1981 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |||
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 | ||||
Bowlers | ||||||
Lakshmipathy Balaji | 27 September 1981 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |||
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 |
References
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