The fourth season of Tamil Nadu Premier League will start from 19 July. TNPL was started in 2016 and has already completed three successful seasons i.e 2016, 2017 and 2018. 8 teams are
participating in TNPL 2022 season with players from different Indian states. In its earlier three seasons, Tamil Nadu Premier League has already turned out to a successful tournament and given
very talented young Cricketers.
Total 28 league matches will be played between 8 teams. There will be 2 Qualifier matches and 1 Eliminator match. So including the Final, there will be total 32 matches in TNPL 2022. The matches
will be played at three stadiums NPR College Ground, Indian Cement Company Ground and MA Chidambaram Stadium. MA Chidambaram Stadium will host the Final of TNPL 2022 on August 15.
TNPL has seen different Champions in all three season played so far. The first edition, ie 2016 was Won by Tuti Patriots. Chepauk Super Gillies won the 2nd edition of TNPL in 2018.TNPL 2018 final was played between Dindigul dragons and madurai panthers which was won by Madurai panthers. So Madurai panthers are the defending Champions.
As mentioned above Tamil Nadu Premier League has produced some great talent in its last three completed seasons. Young talented batsmen and bowlers from different cities are able to show their talent through TNPL. Players like Vijay Shankar, Murugan Ashwin and many other players who displayed their skills in TNPL, were found a place in big level tournaments and leagues like IPL and in Indian National team also.
Not only new and young players take part in TNPL, but also experienced players who have quite good experience of international cricket also take part in Tamil Nadu Premier League. Few of these names are Dinesh Karthik, Ravichandran Ashwin, Murali Vijay etc.
The tournament is not only a platform to provide a real talent, but also its getting to a big entertainment for the Tamil Nadu local Cricket fans who get the high dose of the fun that T20 Cricket has.
Teams of TNPL 2022
The 8 teams participating in TNPL 2022 are based in 8 different cities of Tamil Nadu. The details of these teams are:
| Team | City | Captain | Coach | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chepauk Super Gillies | Chennai | Vijay Shankar | Hemang Badani | Metronation Chennai Television Private Limited – Dailythanthi |
| Lyca Kovai Kings | Coimbatore | Abhinav Mukund | Monty Desai | Lyca Productions |
| Dindigul Dragons | Dindigul | Ravichandran Ashwin | M. Venkataramana | Take Solutions Ltd |
| Trichy Warriors | Tiruchirapalli | Baba Indrajith | Tinu Yohannan | Ruby Builders |
| iDream Karaikudi Kaalai | Karaikudi | Srikkanth Anirudha | Subramaniam Badrinath | iDream Cinemas and iDream Properties |
| Siechem Madurai Panthers | Madurai | Rohit Damodaran | Bharath Reddy | Pooja Damodaran |
| Tuti Patriots | Tirunelveli Thoothukudi | Washington Sundar | Ramaswamy Prasanna | JONES |
| V. B. Kanchi Veerans | Kanchipuram | Baba Aparajith | Bharat Arun and Muttiah Muralitharan | V B Chandrasekhar |
Winners of TNPL seasons
| Season | Final | Final venue | Number of teams | Player of the series | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Winning margin | Runner-up | ||||
| 2016 Details |
Tuti Patriots 215/2 (20 overs) |
Won by 122 runs (Scorecard) |
Chepauk Super Gillies 93 all out (18.5 overs) |
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium | 8 | Narayan Jagadeesan |
| 2017 Details |
Chepauk Super Gillies 145/4 (19 overs) |
Won by 6 wickets (Scorecard) |
Tuti Patriots 143/8 (20 overs) |
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium | 8 | Washington Sundar |
| 2018 Details |
Siechem Madurai Panthers 119/3 (17.1 overs) |
Won by 7 wickets (Scorecard) |
Dindigul Dragons 117 all out (19.5 overs) |
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium | 8 | Arun Karthik |
TNPL Schedule 2022
| No. | Date | Match | Venue |
| 01. | 19 July 2019 | Chepauk Super Gillies vs Dindigul Dragons | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 02. | 20 July 2019 | Siechem Madurai Panthers vs Tuti Patriots | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 03. | 20 July 2019 | Ruby Trichy Warriors vs iDream Karaikudi Kaalai | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 04. | 21 July 2019 | Lyca Kovai Kings vs VB Kanchi Veerans | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 05. | 22 July 2019 | Dindigul Dragons vs Siechem Madurai Panthers | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 06. | 23 July 2019 | Ruby Trichy Warriors vs Chepauk Super Gillies | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 07. | 24 July 2019 | VB Kanchi Veerans vs iDream Karaikudi Kaalai | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 08. | 25 July 2019 | Lyca Kovai Kings vs Tuti Patriots | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 09. | 26 July 2019 | Chepauk Super Gillies vs iDream Karaikudi Kaalai | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 10. | 27 July 2019 | Tuti Patriots vs Dindigul Dragons | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 11. | 27 July 2019 | Ruby Trichy Warriors vs Lyca Kovai Kings | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 12. | 28 July 2019 | Chepauk Super Gillies vs Lyca Kovai Kings | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 13. | 28 July 2019 | Siechem Madurai Panthers vs VB Kanchi Veerans | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 14. | 29 July 2019 | Dindigul Dragons vs iDream Karaikudi Kaalai | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 15. | 30 July 2019 | Tuti Patriots vs VB Kanchi Veerans | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 16. | 31 July 2019 | Siechem Madurai Panthers vs Ruby Trichy Warriors | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 17. | 01 August 2019 | iDream Karaikudi Kaalai vs Tuti Patriots | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 18. | 02 August 2019 | VB Kanchi Veerans vs Chepauk Super Gillies | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 19. | 02 August 2019 | Lyca Kovai Kings vs Siechem Madurai Panthers | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 20. | 03 August 2019 | Ruby Trichy Warriors vs Dindigul Dragons | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 21. | 03 August 2019 | Chepauk Super Gillies vs Siechem Madurai Panthers | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 22. | 04 August 2019 | iDream Karaikudi Kalai vs Lyca Kovai Kings | MAC Stadium, Chennai |
| 23. | 05 August 2019 | VB Kanchi Veerans vs Dindigul Dragons | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 24. | 06 August 2019 | Tuti Patriots vs Ruby Trichy Warriors | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 25. | 07 August 2019 | Dindigul Dragons vs Lyca Kovai Kings | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 26. | 08 August 2019 | iDream Karaikudi Kaalai vs Siechem Madurai Panthers | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 27. | 09 August 2019 | Tuti Patriots vs Chepauk Super Gillies | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 28. | 09 August 2019 | VB Kanchi Veerans vs Ruby Trichy Warriors | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 29. | 11 August 2019 | Qualifier-1 | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 30. | 11 August 2019 | Eliminator | ICL – Sankar Nagar Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 31. | 13 August 2019 | TBC vs TBC, Qualifier 2 | NPR College Ground, Natham, Dindigul |
| 32. | 15 August 2019 | TBC vs TBC, Final | MAC Stadium, Chennai |
Tamil Nadu Premier League 2022 squad
| Dindigul Dragons squad |
|---|
| Ravichandran Ashwin (c), N Jagadeeshan (wk), M Mohammad, Ramalingam Rohit, Adithya Arun, Jagannathan Kaushik, NS Chaturved, Hari Nishanth, Mohan Abhinav, M Silambarasan, Trilok Nag, Varun Totadri, R Vivek, Sumant Jain, ME Yazh Arun Mozhi, S Sujay. |
| Chepauk Super Gillies |
|---|
| Vijay Shankar (c), Gopinath (wk), A Aarif (wk), Ganga Sridhar Raju, Baskaran Rahul, MK Sivakumar, Uthirasamy Sasidev, Kaushik Gandhi, Murugan Ashwin, Sunny Kumar Singh, Arun Kumar, M Siddharth, R Alexander, S Harish Kumar, Samruddh Bhat, B Arun, S Karthik. |
| TUTI Patriots |
|---|
| Washington Sundar (c), Murugeshan Kamlesh (wk), Akshay Srinivasan, V Subramania Siva, Vasanth Saravanan, Subramanian Anand, V Athisayaraj Davidson, Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran, Wilkins Victor, M Ganesh Moorthi, Shubham Mehta, S Boopalan, Nidish Rajagopal, A Venkatesh, S Abishiek, S Dinesh, Ashith Sanganakal, Sivagnanan Senthilnathan, SP Nathan. |
| Madurai Panthers |
|---|
| D Rohit (c), Nilesh Subramanian (wk), Jagatheesan Koushik, Arun Karthik, R Karthikeyan, Thalaivan Sargunam, Shijit Chandran, Varun Chakravarthy, Abhishek Tanvar, Rahil Shah, Tushar Raheja, Kiran Akash, Lokesh Raj, SS Karnavar, MS Promoth, Akash Sumra, R Mithun, Muruganantham. |
| Karaikudi Kaalai |
|---|
| Srikkanth Anirudha (c), Dinesh Karthik (wk), T Ajith Kumar, Rajhamany Srinivasan, L Suryaprakash, Yo Mahesh, S Kishan Kumar, Ashwath Mukumthan, S Mohan Prasath, Sunil Sam, RD Ashwin Kumar, R Kavin, Velidi Lakshman, V Aditya, Maan Bafna, S Swaminathan, S Ganesh, R Rajkumar, M Shajahan. |
| Ruby Trichy Warriors |
|---|
| Baba Indrajith (c), Murali Vijay, Bharath Shankar, Adithya Ganesh, Chandrasekar Ganapathy, Suresh Kumar, Lakshminarayanan Vignesh, DT Chandrasekar, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, MS Sanjay, R Sonu Yadav, S Aravind, K Mani Bharathi, Saravan Kumar, RS Thillak, Kannan Vignesh, R Sathyanarayan, Adithya Barooah, K Mukunth. |
| Lyva Kovai Kings |
|---|
| Abhinav Mukund (c), Ashwin Venkataraman, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Shahrukh Khan, Malolan Rangarajan, Anthony Dhas, T Natarajan, Krishnamoorthy Vignesh, Suresh Babu, M Raja, Akkil Srinaath, J Suresh Kumar, Prasanth Rajesh, Muhammad Khan, S Manigandan, S Ajith Ram, B Anirudh Sita Ram, Jaganath Sinivas. |
| VB Kanchi Veerans |
|---|
| Baba Aparajith (c), Suresh Lokeshwar (wk), Sanjay Yadav, Rajagopal Satish, S Siddharth, RS Mokit Hariharan, Rangaraj Suthesh, Aushik Srinivas, K Vishal Vaidhya, U Mukilesh, S Arun, K Deeban Lingesh, P Francis Rokins, R Divakar, U Vishal, C Shriram, R Silambarasan, K Gowtham Thamarai Kannan. |