Tamil Nadu cricket team

Tamil Nadu cricket team
Personnel
Captain	Abhinav Mukund & Vijay Shankar
Coach	Hrishikesh Kanitkar
Owner	Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
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 also the team that has won the Vijay Hazare Trophy the maximum number of times .^[2].. They were also 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.

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.^[3]

Famous players

Players from Tamil Nadu who have played for India.

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
	Abhinav Mukund	(1990-01-06) 6 January 1990	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	First Class Captain Played for India Red in 2018-19 Duleep Trophy
	Indrajith B	(1994-07-08) 8 July 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Vice-Captain Played for India Green in 2018–19 Duleep Trophy
	Aparajith B	(1994-07-08) 8 July 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Played for India Red in 2018-19 Duleep Trophy
	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
	Anirudh B	(1994-09-02) 2 September 1994	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
	Sanjay Yadav R	(1995-05-10) 10 May 1995	Left-handed	Slow left arm orthodox
	Bharath Shankar K	(1994-05-20) 20 May 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Anirudha S	(1987-04-14) 14 April 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Ganga Sridhar Raju V	(1993-04-25) 25 April 1993	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break
	Antony Dhas W	(1988-10-14) 14 October 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
All-rounders
	Washington Sundar	(1999-10-05) 5 October 1999	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	Plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore
	Yo Mahesh V	(1987-12-21) 21 December 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Vijay Shankar	(1991-01-26) 26 January 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	List A and Twenty20 Captain Plays for Delhi Daredevils
	Kousik J	(1995-05-23) 23 May 1995	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Shahrukh Khan M	(1995-05-27) 27 May 1995	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Wicket-keepers
	Jagadeesan N	(1995-12-24) 24 December 1995	Right-handed		Plays for Chennai Super Kings
	Dinesh Karthik	(1985-06-01) 1 June 1985	Right-handed		Plays for Kolkata Knight Riders
Spin Bowlers
	R Sai Kishore	(1996-11-06) 6 November 1996	Left-handed	Slow left arm orthodox
	Rahil S Shah	(1985-10-20) 20 October 1985	Right-handed	Slow left arm orthodox
	Varun Chakravathi	–	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
	Ravichandran Ashwin	(1986-09-17) 17 September 1986	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Plays for Kings XI Punjab Played for Rest of India cricket team in 2017–18 Irani Cup
	Ashwin M	(1990-09-08) 8 September 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore
Pace Bowlers
	Vignesh K	(1994-09-09) 9 September 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Played for India Green in 2018–19 Duleep Trophy
	Mohammed M	(1991-12-03) 3 December 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	V Athisayaraj Davidson	–	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Vignesh L	(1989-03-20) 20 March 1989	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
	T Natarajan	(1991-05-27) 27 May 1991	Left-handed	Left-arm medium	Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad
	Lakshman V	(1991-07-06) 6 July 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	S Sharun Kumar	–	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Rohit R	(1992-05-03) 3 May 1992	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast

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)
↑ {{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Hazare_Trophy}}
↑ "MA Chidambaram Stadium | India | Cricket Grounds | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2016-10-20.

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[1] "Ranji Trophy winners list : Teams who have won most Indian championships". http://www.fastcricket.com. External link in |website= (help)

[2] {{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Hazare_Trophy}}

[3] "MA Chidambaram Stadium | India | Cricket Grounds | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2016-10-20.

Ranji Trophy
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Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks