2023 Tamil Nadu Premier League

The 2023 Tamil Nadu Premier League, also known as (TNPL-7) or, for sponsorship reasons, Shriram Capital TNPL^[1] was the seventh season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL). It took place from 12 June 2023 to 12 July 2023.^[2]

2023 Tamil Nadu Premier League

Dates	12 June – 12 July 2023
Administrator(s)	Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and play-offs
Host(s)	India
Champions	Lyca Kovai Kings (2nd title)
Runners-up	Nellai Royal Kings
Participants	8
Matches	32
Player of the series	Guruswamy Ajitesh (Nellai Royal Kings)
Most runs	Guruswamy Ajitesh (Nellai Royal Kings) (385)
Most wickets	Shahrukh Khan (Lyca Kovai Kings) (17)
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Chepauk Super Gillies and Lyca Kovai Kings were the co-defending champions from the previous season.^[3]

Participating teams

There are eight franchises competing in league.^[4] The franchises are named after a district it is representing in the state.^[5][6]

Chepauk Super Gillies

– Home city

Lyca Kovai Kings

Dindigul Dragons

Ba11sy Trichy

IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans

Siechem Madurai Panthers

Salem Spartans

Nellai Royal Kings

Team locations and match venues

Source:^[7]

Team	Captain	Coach
Chepauk Super Gillies	Narayan Jagadeesan	Hemang Badani
Dindigul Dragons	Ravichandran Ashwin	Subramaniam Badrinath
IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans	R. Sai Kishore	R. Prasanna
Lyca Kovai Kings	Shahrukh Khan	Sriram Somayajula
Nellai Royal Kings	Arun Karthik	A. G. Guruswamy
Ba11sy Trichy	Ganga Sridhar Raju	Tinu Yohannan
Salem Spartans	Abhishek Tanwar	Robin Bist
Siechem Madurai Panthers	Hari Nishaanth	Bharath Reddy

Rules

A number of new laws/rules have been introduced in this season:^[8]

• An "Impact Player" rule allowing sides to substitute a player during a match from four named substitutes.
• Decision Review System (DRS) system will only be used in case of dismissals.
• Reserve days were allotted to playoff matches.

Venues

A total of four venues will be used in the 2023 season. The tournament started at Coimbatore and final will be held in Tirunelveli.

• Indian Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli
• NPR College Ground, Dindigul
• SNR College Cricket Ground, Coimbatore
• Salem Cricket Foundation Stadium, Salem

Squads

Source:^[9]

Chepauk Super Gillies	Dindigul Dragons	IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans	Lyca Kovai Kings	Nellai Royal Kings	Ba11sy Trichy	Salem Spartans	Siechem Madurai Panthers
Narayan Jagadeesan (c) Baba Aparajith Harish Kumar B Iyappan Lokesh Raj Madhan Kumar Pradosh Ranjan Paul Rocky Bhasker Ramalingam Rohit Sanjay Yadav S Santosh Shiv Uthirasamy Sasidev Rajagopal Sathish Rahil Shah R Sibi M Silambarasan M Viju Arul	Baba Indrajith (c) Adithya Ganesh Advaith Sharma Affan Khader S Arun Ravichandran Ashwin Suboth Bhati Rohan Bhutra VP Diran Hemanth Kumar G Kishoor Boopathi Kumar M Mathivannan Sarath Kumar P Saravana Kumar Shivam Singh Tamil Dhileepan Varun Chakravarthy P Vignesh Vimal Khumar	R. Sai Kishore (c) Ajith Ram Balchander Anirudh P Bhuvaneswaran NS Chaturved S Ganesh Alliraj Karuppusamy S Manigandan Mohamed Ali G Parthasarathy Ganeshan Periyaswamy Radhakrishnan M Ragavan Vijay Shankar Trilok Nath Tushar Raheja I. Vetrivel Vishal Vaidhya Rajendran Vivek	Shahrukh Khan (c) Atheeq Ur Rahman R Divakar Gowtham Thamarai Kannan P Hemcharan Kiran Akash M Mohammed U Mukilesh Om Prakash Ram Arvindh B Sachin Sai Sudharsan Manimaran Siddharth Jhathavedh Subramanyan S Sujay Suresh Kumar P Vidyuth Valliappan Yudheeswaran	Arun Karthik (c)	Ganga Sridhar Raju (c)	Abhishek Tanwar (c)	Hari Nishaanth (c)

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Lyca Kovai Kings (C)	7	6	1	0	12	2.076
2	Dindigul Dragons	7	6	1	0	12	−0.271
3	Nellai Royal Kings	7	5	2	0	10	0.696
4	Siechem Madurai Panthers	7	4	3	0	8	−0.324
5	Chepauk Super Gillies	7	3	4	0	6	0.683
6	IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans	7	2	5	0	4	−0.486
7	Salem Spartans	7	2	5	0	4	−1.244
8	Ba11sy Trichy	7	0	7	0	0	−2.009

Source: ESPNcricinfo

Source:^[10]

•   Advanced to the qualifiers
•   Advanced to the eliminator
•   Eliminated from Tournament

League stage

All times are in Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30)

Source:^[11]

Match 1 12 June 2023 19:15 (N) Scorecard

Lyca Kovai Kings 179/7 (20 overs)	v	IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans 109 (20 overs)
Sai Sudharsan 86 (45) Vijay Shankar 3/26 (4 overs)		Tushar Raheja 33 (33) Shahrukh Khan 3/20 (4 overs)

Lyca Kovai Kings won by 70 runs SNR College Cricket Ground, Coimbatore Umpires: Madanagopal Kuppuraj and Krishnamachari Srinivasan Player of the match: Sai Sudharsan (Lyca Kovai Kings)

• IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans won the toss and elected to field.
• Impact Player Subs: Atheeq Ur Rahman for B. Sachin (Lyca Kovai Kings) and Vishal Vaidhya for Ganeshan Periyaswamy (IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans) were the first Impact Players to be used in the TNPL.

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Match 2 13 June 2023 19:15 (N) Scorecard

Chepauk Super Gillies 217/5 (20 overs)	v	Salem Spartans 165/9 (20 overs)
Pradosh Ranjan Paul 88 (55) Sunny Sandhu 2/32 (4 overs)		Muhammed Adnan Khan 47* (15) Rocky Bhasker 2/13 (2 overs)

Chepauk Super Gillies won by 52 runs SNR College Cricket Ground, Coimbatore Umpires: Rajesh Kannan and Krishnamachari Srinivasan Player of the match: Pradosh Ranjan Paul (Chepauk Super Gillies)

• Chepauk Super Gillies won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 3 14 June 2023 15:15 (D/N) Scorecard

Siechem Madurai Panthers 126/8 (20 overs)	v	Nellai Royal Kings 129/4 (13.4 overs)
Hari Nishaanth 64 (51) Mohan Prasath 3/26 (4 overs)		Nidhish Rajagopal 42* (26) V Gowtham 1/4 (1 over)

Nellai Royal Kings won by 6 wickets SNR College Cricket Ground, Coimbatore Umpires: M Ashwin Kumar and Madanagopal Kuppuraj Player of the match: Mohan Prasath (Nellai Royal Kings)

• Siechem Madurai Panthers won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 4 14 June 2023 19:15 (N) Scorecard

Ba11sy Trichy 120 (19.1 overs)	v	Dindigul Dragons 122/4 (14.5 overs)
Ganga Sridhar Raju 48 (41) Varun Chakravarthy 3/21 (4 overs)		Shivam Singh 46 (30) T. Natarajan 1/15 (3 overs)

Dindigul Dragons won by 6 wickets SNR College Cricket Ground, Coimbatore Umpires: Saidharshan Kumar and Krishnamachari Srinivasan Player of the match: Varun Chakravarthy (Dindigul Dragons)

• Ba11sy Trichy won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 5 15 June 2023 19:15 (N) Scorecard

IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans 120/7 (20 overs)	v	Chepauk Super Gillies 121/3 (15.4 overs)
Radhakrishnan 36 (33) Harish Kumar 2/12 (4 overs)		Baba Aparajith 46* (29) Ajith Ram 2/15 (4 overs)

Chepauk Super Gillies won by 7 wickets SNR College Cricket Ground, Coimbatore Umpires: M Ashwin Kumar and Krishnamachari Srinivasan Player of the match: Harish Kumar (Chepauk Super Gillies)

• IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 6 16 June 2023 19:15 (N) Scorecard

Lyca Kovai Kings 181/6 (20 overs)	v	Nellai Royal Kings 182/6 (20 overs)
Sai Sudharsan 90 (52) M Poiyamozhi 3/29 (4 overs)		Guruswamy Ajitesh 112 (60) Shahrukh Khan 1/12 (2 overs)

Nellai Royal Kings won by 4 wickets SNR College Cricket Ground, Coimbatore Umpires: Rajesh Kannan and Saidharshan Kumar Player of the match: Guruswamy Ajitesh (Nellai Royal Kings)

• Nellai Royal Kings won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 7 18 June 2023 15:15 (D/N) Scorecard

Ba11sy Trichy 139/9 (20 overs)	v	Salem Spartans 143/5 (15.2 overs)
Mani Bharathi 40 (33) Abhishek Tanwar 3/9 (4 overs)		Kaushik Gandhi 52* (32) G. Godson 3/34 (4 overs)

Salem Spartans won by 5 wickets NPR College Ground, Dindigul Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and M. Madhu Player of the match: Abhishek Tanwar (Salem Spartans)

• Ba11sy Trichy won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 8 18 June 2023 19:15 (N) Scorecard

Siechem Madurai Panthers 123 (19.3 overs)	v	Dindigul Dragons 124/3 (14.1 overs)
Jagatheesan Kousik 45 (34) Suboth Bhati 3/19 (4 overs)		Baba Indrajith 78* (48) Gurjapneet Singh 3/18 (4 overs)

Dindigul Dragons won by 7 wickets NPR College Ground, Dindigul Umpires: GS Ananth Ramakrishnan and Krishnaraj Srinath Player of the match: Suboth Bhati (Dindigul Dragons)

• Dindigul Dragons won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 9 19 June 2023 19:15 (N) Scorecard

Chepauk Super Gillies 126/8 (20 overs)	v	Lyca Kovai Kings 128/2 (16.3 overs)
Harish Kumar 32 (20) Valliappan Yudheeswaran 3/29 (4 overs)		Sai Sudharsan 64* (43) Rahil Shah 1/26 (4 overs) Lokesh Raj 1/26 (4 overs)

Lyca Kovai Kings won by 8 wickets NPR College Ground, Dindigul Umpires: Mohamed Rafi and K. Raghuram Player of the match: Valliappan Yudheeswaran (Lyca Kovai Kings)

• Lyca Kovai Kings won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 10 20 June 2023 19:15 (N) Scorecard

Nellai Royal Kings 124 (18.2 overs)	v	IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans 128/3 (18.2 overs)
Sonu Yadav 35 (32) P Bhuvaneswaran 5/17 (3.2 overs)		Tushar Raheja 49 (43) Sonu Yadav 2/23 (4 overs)

IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans won by 7 wickets NPR College Ground, Dindigul Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and MM Srinivasa Rangan Player of the match: P Bhuvaneswaran (IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans)

• IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 11 21 June 2023 15:15 (D/N) Scorecard

Dindigul Dragons 170/9 (20 overs)	v	Chepauk Super Gillies 169/9 (20 overs)
Adithya Ganesh 44 (30) Rahil Shah 3/38 (4 overs)		Baba Aparajith 74 (40) Varun Chakravarthy 3/23 (4 overs)

Dindigul Dragons won by 1 run NPR College Ground, Dindigul Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and Mohamed Rafi Player of the match: Suboth Bhati (Dindigul Dragons)

• Chepauk Super Gillies won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 12 21 June 2023 19:15 (N) Scorecard

Ba11sy Trichy 117/6 (20 overs)	v	Lyca Kovai Kings 119/4 (18.2 overs)
Ganga Sridhar Raju 58 (55) Manimaran Siddharth 3/13 (4 overs)		S. Sujay 72* (59) Daryl Ferrario 2/17 (4 overs)

Lyca Kovai Kings won by 6 wickets NPR College Ground, Dindigul Umpires: K Raghuram and GS Ananth Ramakrishnan Player of the match: S. Sujay (Lyca Kovai Kings)

• Lyca Kovai Kings won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 13 22 June 2023 19:15 (N) Scorecard

Salem Spartans 115/4 (16 overs)	v	Nellai Royal Kings 129/5 (15.4 overs)
Kaushik Gandhi 51 (43) Lakshay Jain 2/17 (2 overs)		Guruswamy Ajitesh 39 (31) Abhishek Tanwar 2/30 (4 overs)

Nellai Royal Kings won by 5 wickets (DLS method) NPR College Ground, Dindigul Umpires: MM Srinivasa Rangan and Krishnaraj Srinath Player of the match: Kaushik Gandhi (Salem Spartans)

• Nellai Royal Kings won the toss and elected to field.
• Nellai Royal Kings were set a revised target of 129 runs from 16 overs.

Playoffs

Play-offs started on 7 July 2023.^[12]

Qualifier 1 / Eliminator

Qualifier 2

Final

7 July 2023 – Salem

12 July 2023 – Tirunelveli

1

Lyca Kovai Kings

193/7 (20 overs)

Q1W

Lyca Kovai Kings

205/5 (20 overs)

2

Dindigul Dragons

163/9 (20 overs)

10 July 2023 – Tirunelveli

Q2W

Nellai Royal Kings

101 all out (15 overs)

Q1L

Dindigul Dragons

185/5 (20 overs)

8 July 2023 – Salem

EW

Nellai Royal Kings

191/3 (20 overs)

3

Nellai Royal Kings

211/6 (20 overs)

4

Siechem Madurai Panthers

207/4 (20 overs)