Tamil Nadu cricket team

Tamil Nadu cricket team
Personnel
Captain	Vijay Shankar
Coach	M. Venkataramana
Team information
Colours	Yellow Dark Blue
Founded	1930
Home ground	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium
Capacity	50,000
History
Ranji Trophy wins	2
Irani Trophy wins	1
Deodhar Trophy wins	1
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins	5
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins	3
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.It has been one of the most dominating teams in white ball cricket in domestic circuit The team plays in Ranji Trophy, the top tier of the domestic first-class cricket tournament in India and in List A tournaments Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. They have won the Ranji Trophy twice and have finished runners-up nine times.^[1] They are the team that has won the Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy most often. They were the first team to win the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. The team was known as Madras until the 1970–71 season before renaming of Madras state to Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is the only team to win the five different Indian domestic trophies (Ranji Trophy, Irani Trophy, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Vijay Hazare Trophy and Deodhar Trophy) in India.

Home ground[]

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

Honours[]

Ranji Trophy
- Winners (2): 1954–55, 1987–88
- Runners-up (10): 1935–36, 1940–41, 1967–68, 1972–73, 1991–92, 1995–96, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2011–12, 2014–15

Famous players[]

Players from Tamil Nadu who have played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut:

M. J. Gopalan (1934)
Cotah Ramaswami (1936)
C. R. Rangachari (1948)
C. D. Gopinath (1951)
A. G. Kripal Singh (1955)
A. G. Milkha Singh (1960)
Vaman Kumar (1961)
S. Venkataraghavan (1965)
Bharath Reddy (1979)
T. E. Srinivasan (1981)
Krishnamachari Srikkanth (1981)
T. A. Sekhar (1983)
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (1983)
Bharat Arun (1986)
W. V. Raman (1988)
M. Venkataramana (1989)
Robin Singh (1998)
Sadagoppan Ramesh (1999)
Hemang Badani (2001)
Lakshmipathy Balaji (2003)
Dinesh Karthik (2004)
Murali Vijay (2008)
Subramaniam Badrinath (2010)
Abhinav Mukund (2011)
Ravichandran Ashwin (2011)
Washington Sundar (2021)
T Natarajan (2021)

Players from Tamil Nadu who have played ODI but not Test cricket for India, along with year of ODI debut :

V. B. Chandrasekhar (1988)
Thiru Kumaran (1999)
Sridharan Sriram (2000)
Vijay Shankar (2019)

Player(s) from Tamil Nadu who have played T20I but not ODI or Test cricket for India, along with year of T20I debut :

Varun Chakravarthy (2021)

Players from other state teams who also played for Tamil Nadu, and played cricket for India, along with year of debut:

Vivek Razdan (1989)
Aashish Kapoor (1994)

Players from Tamil Nadu who have played international cricket for another country, along with year of debut:

Balaji Rao (2008)

Current squad[]

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	TNCA Club	Notes
Batsmen
Baba Aparajith	(1994-07-08) 8 July 1994 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Jolly Rovers CC
Shahrukh Khan	(1995-05-27) 27 May 1995 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Vijay CC	Plays for Punjab Kings in IPL
Baba Indrajith	(1994-07-08) 8 July 1994 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Jolly Rovers CC	Plays for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL
Kaushik Gandhi	(1990-02-23) 23 February 1990 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Jolly Rovers CC
C Hari Nishanth	(1996-08-16) 16 August 1996 (age 25)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	Globe Trotters SC	Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL
Laxmesha Suryaprakash	(1989-09-27) 27 September 1989 (age 32)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Grand Slam CC
Sai Sudharsan	(2001-10-15) 15 October 2001 (age 20)	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	Jolly Rovers CC	Plays for Gujarat Titans in IPL
Ganga Sridhar Raju	(1993-04-25) 25 April 1993 (age 28)	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	Vijay CC
All-rounders
Vijay Shankar	(1991-01-26) 26 January 1991 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Vijay CC	Captain Plays for Gujarat Titans in IPL
J. Kousik	(1995-05-23) 23 May 1995 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Vijay CC
Washington Sundar	(1999-10-05) 5 October 1999 (age 22)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	Globe Trotters SC	Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL
Sanjay Yadav	(1995-05-10) 10 May 1995 (age 26)	Left-handed	Slow left arm orthodox	Mylapore RC (A)	Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
Wicket-keepers
Narayan Jagadeesan	(1995-12-24) 24 December 1995 (age 26)	Right-handed		Vijay CC	Vice-captain Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL
Dinesh Karthik	(1985-06-01) 1 June 1985 (age 36)	Right-handed		Vijay CC	Plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL
Spin Bowlers
R Sai Kishore	(1996-11-06) 6 November 1996 (age 25)	Left-handed	Slow left arm orthodox	Vijay CC	Plays for Gujarat Titans in IPL
Manimaran Siddharth	(1998-06-03) 3 June 1998 (age 23)	Left-handed	Slow left arm orthodox	Grand Slam CC
Murugan Ashwin	(1990-09-08) 8 September 1990 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Swaraj CC	Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
Ravichandran Ashwin	(1986-09-17) 17 September 1986 (age 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Mylapore RC (A)	Plays for Rajasthan Royals in IPL
Pace Bowlers
Sandeep Warrier	(1991-04-04) 4 April 1991 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Vijay CC
T Natarajan	(1991-05-27) 27 May 1991 (age 30)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium	Jolly Rovers CC	Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL
M Mohammed	(1991-12-03) 3 December 1991 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Vijay CC
Ragupathy Silambarasan	(1993-03-07) 7 March 1993 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Mylapore RC (A)
Saravana Kumar	(1989-08-26) 26 August 1989 (age 32)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Jolly Rovers CC

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". fastcricket.com.
^ "MA Chidambaram Stadium | India | Cricket Grounds | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2016.

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[1] "Ranji Trophy winners list : Teams who have won most Indian championships". fastcricket.com.

[2] "MA Chidambaram Stadium | India | Cricket Grounds | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2016.

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