2018 Tamil Nadu Premier League

The 2018 season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League is the third edition of the TNPL, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Tamil Nadu, India. The league was formed by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) in 2016.^[1]

Tamil Nadu Premier League 2018

Dates	11 July 2018 (2018-07-11) – 12 August 2018 (2018-08-12)
Administrator(s)	Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round Robin and Playoffs
Host(s)	tamilnadu
Champions	Madurai Panthers ( 1st Title )
Runners-up	Dindigul Dragons
Participants	8
Matches	32
Most runs	472 runs ( Arun Karthik ) Siechem Madurai Panthers
Most wickets	15 wickets ( AB Tanwar ) Siechem Madurai Panthers
Official website	Tamil Nadu Premier League
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Teams

Team	City	Captain	Coach
Chepauk Super Gillies	Chennai	Vijay Shankar	Hemang Badani
Kovai Kings	Coimbatore	T Natarajan	Lance Klusener
Dindigul Dragons	Dindigul	Ravichandran Ashwin	M. Venkataramana
Trichy Warriors	Tiruchirapalli	Baba Indrajith	Tinu Yohannan and Brett Lee
Karaikudi Kaalai	Karaikudi	Subramaniam Badrinath	Robin Singh
Madurai Super Giants	Madurai	Abhishek Tanwar	Michael Bevan
Tuti Patriots	Thoothukudi	Washington Sundar	Monty Desai
VB Kanchi Veerans	Tiruvallur	Baba Aparajith

Source: Cricbuzz^[2]

Squads

Chepauk Super Gillies	Kovai Kings	Dindigul Dragons	Madurai Super Giants	Karaikudi Kaalai	Trichy Warriors	VB Kanchi Veerans	Tuti Patriots
Vijay Shankar  Gopinath  Murugan Ashwin  S Harish Kumar  Ganga Sridhar Raju  Sunny Kumar Singh  Samruddh Bhat  Arun Kumar  R Vishaal  M Siddharth  MK Sivakumar  S Karthik  R Alexander  Uthirasamy Sasidev  Baskaran Rahul  A Aarif  Manav Parakh  Sai Sudharsan  B Arun	T. Natarajan  Abhinav Mukund  Shahrukh Khan  Akkil Srinaath Ashwin Venkataraman  R Sathyanarayan  Antony Dhas  Krishnamoorthy Vignesh  M Raja  S Ajith Ram  Ravi Kumar Rohith  Suresh Babu  Pradosh Ranjan Paul  S Manigandan  R Mithun  Muhammed Khan  Prasanth Rajesh  Sumant Jain  J Suresh Kumar	Ravichandran Ashwin  NS Chaturved  C Hari Nishaanth  Balchander Anirudh  Adithya Arun  M Silambarasan  Trilok Nag  ME Yazh Arun Mozhi  Jagannathan Kaushik  Nivethan Radhakrishnan  M Mohammed  Ramalingam Rohit  N Jagadeesan  R Vivek  Ra Aravind  N Ramakrishnan  Varun Totadri  M Sujendran  Mohan Abhinav	Abhishek Tanwar  Rahil Shah  Thalaivan Sargunam  Jagatheesan Kousik  Jaganath Sinivas  Nilesh Subramanian  SP Nathan  Kiran Akash  Lokesh Raj  Vikram Jangid  Arun Karthik  R Karthikeyan  Shijit Chandran  PS Sivaramakrishnan  MS Promoth  Tushar Raheja  SS Karnavar  D Rohit  Varun Chakravarthy	S Ganesh  Dinesh Karthik  Srikkanth Anirudha  Yo Mahesh  R Kavin  L Suryaprakash  Velidi Lakshman  S Kishan Kumar  S Radhakrishnan  Maan Bafna  Ashwath Mukumthan  S Swaminathan  T Ajith Kumar  M Shajahan  V Aditya  R Rajkumar  S Mohan Prasath  P Murgesh  Rajhamany Srinivasan	Baba Indrajith  MS Sanjay  Sonu Yadav  Chandrasekar Ganapathy  Sathiamoorty Saravanan Lakshminarayanan Vignesh  Lakshmi Narayanan  DT Chandrasekar  K Mani Bharathi  Murali Vijay  Bharath Shankar  S Aravind  Kannan Vignesh  Aswin Crist  V Aakash  Govinda Raajan  Selvam Suresh Kumar  Saravan Kumar  RS Thillak  Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran	K Vishal Vaidhya Aushik Srinivas  V Subramania Siva  U Mukilesh  Sunil Sam  K Deeban Lingesh  S Siddharth  P Francis Rokins  RS Mokit Hariharan  Baba Aparajith  R Silambarasan  S Arun  Sanjay Yadav  Suresh Lokeshwar  S Ashwath  S Chandrashekar  R Divakar  C Shriram  U Vishal	Washington Sundar  Kaushik Gandhi Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore  Rajagopal Sathish  V. Athisayaraj Davidson  Akshay Srinivasan  Malolan Rangarajan  Umashankar Sushil  S Dinesh  S Abishiek  Nidish Rajagopal  Rajamani Jesuraj  A Venkatesh  Akash Sumra  Subramanian Anand  M Ganesh Moorthi  S Boopalan  Ashith Sanganakal  Shubham Mehta  Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran

Fixtures and match summary

The schedule of the round robin matches is provided below in details.^[3]

Tournament results

Points table

•   advanced to the playoffs

Team	Played	Won	Lost	Tie	NR	Points	NRR
Dindigul Dragons	7	5	2	0	0	10	+0.992
Madurai Panthers	7	5	2	0	0	10	+0.124
Lyca Kovai Kings	7	4	3	0	0	8	+0.577
Karaikudi Kaalai	7	4	3	0	0	8	+0.505
Tuti Patriots	7	4	3	0	0	8	−0.432
Ruby Trichy Warriors	7	4	3	0	0	8	−0.011
VB Kanchi Veerans	7	1	6	0	0	2	−0.870
Chepauk Super Gillies	7	1	6	0	0	2	−1.621