Tamil Nadu cricket team
The Tamil Nadu Cricket Team (Tamil: தமிழ் நாடு கிரிக்கெட் டீம்); (Madras), competes in the Super League of the Ranji Trophy, the top cricketing competition in India. The team finished as runners-up behind Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy in the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons establishing themselves as one of the strongest teams in the country. Until the end of the 1960s the state of Tamil Nadu was known as Madras, and this was reflected in that the name of the team was also Madras until the 1970-71 season.Have won the Ranji Trophy in 1954-55 and 1987-88 series. Runners in 1935-36, 1940–41, 1967–68, 1972–73, 1991–92, 1995–96, 2002–03 and 2003-04.
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[edit] Competition history
[edit] Best performances in Ranji Trophy
| Year | Position |
|---|---|
| 2011-12 | Runner-up |
| 2003-04 | Runner-up |
| 2002-03 | Runner-up |
| 1995-96 | Runner-up |
| 1991-92 | Runner-up |
| 1987-88 | Winners |
| 1972-73 | Runner-up |
| 1967-68 | Runner-up |
| 1954-55 | Winner |
| 1940-41 | Runner-up |
| 1935-36 | Runner-up |
[edit] Home venue
The team is based at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (formerly known as the Chepauk and also as the Madras Cricket Club Ground), named after a former president of the BCCI. Established in 1916, it has a capacity of 50,000 and had floodlights installed in 1996.
[edit] Players from Tamil Nadu who have played for India
- Krishnamachari Srikkanth
- Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
- Dinesh Karthik
- Robin Singh
- Murali Vijay
- Murali Kartik
- W.V. Raman
- Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
- Subramaniam Badrinath
- Hemang Badani
- Sadagoppan Ramesh
- Lakshmipathy Balaji
- Sridharan Sriram
- V. B. Chandrasekhar
- T. A. Sekhar
- Bharath Reddy
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- T.E. Srinivasan
- C. Rangachari
- T.Kumaran
- Abhinav Mukund
- M. J. Gopalan
[edit] Current squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
- Lakshmipathy Balaji (C)
- Srikkanth Anirudha
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- Subramaniam Badrinath
- Chandrasekar Ganapathy
- Sunny Gupta
- Arun Karthik
- Dinesh Karthik
- Jagannathan Kaushik
- Suresh Kumar
- Abhinav Mukund
- Ramaswamy Prasanna
- Sunil Sam
- Aushik Srinivas
- K Vasudevadas
- Ganapathi Vignesh
- Murali Vijay
- Yo Mahesh
[edit] References
| Indian first class cricket teams in the Ranji Trophy |
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| Andhra Pradesh | Assam | Baroda | Bengal | Delhi | Goa | Gujarat | Haryana | Himachal Pradesh | Hyderabad | Jammu and Kashmir | Jharkhand | Karnataka | Kerala | Madhya Pradesh | Maharashtra | Mumbai | Orissa | Punjab | Railways | Rajasthan | Saurashtra | Services | Tamil Nadu | Tripura | Uttar Pradesh | Vidarbha |
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