Tamil Nadu cricket team

Tamil Nadu cricket team
Personnel
Captain	Vijay Shankar & Dinesh Karthik
Coach	Divakar Vasu
Batting coach	Ramaswamy Prasanna
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
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 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 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 Ranji Trophy, Irani Trophy, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Vijay Hazare Trophy and Deodhar Trophy.

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]

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)

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)
Washington Sundar (2017)
Vijay Shankar (2019)

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

Aashish Kapoor (1994)

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
Baba Aparajith	(1994-07-08) 8 July 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Played for India B in 2019-20 Deodhar Trophy
Abhinav Mukund	(1990-01-06) 6 January 1990	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break
Shahrukh Khan	(1995-05-27) 27 May 1995	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Kaushik Gandhi	(1990-02-23) 23 February 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Murali Vijay	(1984-04-01) 1 April 1984	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL
Laxmesha Suryaprakash	(1989-09-27) 27 September 1989	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
C Hari Nishanth	(1996-08-16) 16 August 1996	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
Ganga Sridhar Raju	(1993-04-25) 25 April 1993	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break
Baba Indrajith	(1994-07-08) 8 July 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
Karunakaran Mukunth	(1996-06-02) 2 June 1996	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
All-rounders
Vijay Shankar	(1991-01-26) 26 January 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	First Class Captain Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL Played for India B in 2019-20 Deodhar Trophy
Washington Sundar	(1999-10-05) 5 October 1999	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	Plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL
Wicket-keepers
Dinesh Karthik	(1985-06-01) 1 June 1985	Right-handed		List A and Twenty20 Captain Plays for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL Played for India C in 2019-20 Deodhar Trophy
Narayan Jagadeesan	(1995-12-24) 24 December 1995	Right-handed		Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL
Spin Bowlers
R Sai Kishore	(1996-11-06) 6 November 1996	Left-handed	Slow left arm orthodox	Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL
Murugan Ashwin	(1990-09-08) 8 September 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Plays for Kings XI Punjab in IPL
Ravichandran Ashwin	(1986-09-17) 17 September 1986	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Plays for Delhi Capitals in IPL Played for India A in 2019-20 Deodhar Trophy
Manimaran Siddharth	(1998-06-03) 3 June 1998	Left-handed	Slow left arm orthodox	Plays for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL
Pace Bowlers
T Natarajan	(1991-05-27) 27 May 1991	Left-handed	Left-arm medium	Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL
Krishnamoorthy Vignesh	(1994-09-09) 9 September 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
M Mohammed	(1991-12-03) 3 December 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Ganeshan Periyaswamy	(1994-03-05) 5 March 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm medium

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.

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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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