TNPL 2018, All you need to know: Tournament details, squads, prize money, broadcast

Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) season 3 gets underway today (July 11) with the opening clash between Dindigul Dragons and Ruby Trichy Warriors at Tirunelveli. A total of 32 matches will be hosted at three venues across Tamil Nadu with the final scheduled for August 12 at Chepauk. The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) wanted to invite outstation players to the league this time around and had made provisions for the same. However, the decision was stricken down by the Supreme Court and they had to stick just to the local players.

Among the superstars featuring in the tournament are Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and Murali Vijay who will play a few matches before flying off to England for the Test series. The likes of Dinesh Karthik and Washington Sundar have been picked in the teams as well. While Karthik will join his side after the ODI series in England, Sundar suffered an ankle injury and had to miss out on the T20I series on the tour.

The champions team will win a Prize money of Rs 1 crore, the runner-up get a cheque of Rs 60 lakh the other two teams who play the semi-final will get Rs 40 lakh each and the bottom four teams will have a claim of share on Rs 25 lakh each.

Teams and Squads

Tuti Patriots – Washington Sundar, Kaushik Gandhi, Sai Kishor R, R.Sathish, Athisayaraj Davidson.V, Akshay Srinivasan, Malolan Rangarajan, Ashith Rajiv, U.Sushil, Dinesh S, Abishiek S, Venkatesh A, Nidish S, R Jesuraj, S Boopalan, S Shubham Mehta, Anand Subramanian, Akash Sumra and Ganesh Moorthy.

Chepauk Super Gillies – Vijay Shankar, Gopinath KH, M.Ashwin, Harish Kumar.S, Ganga Sridhar Raju, Sunny Kumar Singh, Samruddh Bhat, Arun Kumar V, Vishaal R, Rahul B, Siddharth M, Arun B, Aarif A, MK Sivakumar, Manav Parakh, B Sai Sudharsan, S Karthik, U Sasidev and RK Alexander.

Lyca Kovai Kings – Anthony Das, Natarajan T, Abhinav Mukund, K.Vignesh, Shahrukh Khan M, Akkil Srinaath, Suresh Kumar J, Mithun R, Suresh Babu, Sumant Jain, Rajesh MP, Ashwin Venkataraman, M Raja, R Sathyanarayan, Mohammed Adnan Khan, S Manikandan, Rohith Ravikumar, Pradosh Ranjan Paul and S Ajith Ram.

Siechem Madurai Panthers – Varun CV, Abhishek Tanwar, Rahil Shah, Thalaivan Sargunam.X, Kousik J, Jagannath RS, Nilesh S, Rohit D, S.P Nathan, Tushar Raheja, Kiran Akash L, Lokesh Raj T.D, SS Karnavar, Vikkram Jangid, MS Promoth, PS Shivaramakrishnan, KB Arun Karthik, Shijit Chandran and R Karthikeyan.

Ruby Trichy Warriors – B Indrajith, Bharath Shankar and K Vignesh, Sonu Yadav, Sanjay MS, Murali Vijay, C.Ganapathi, Suresh Kumar S, Vasanth Saravanan, Aravind S, Lakshminarayanan M, Vignesh L, Chandrasekar D.T, Aswin Crist A, Mani Bharathy K, Saravana Kumar P, AS Govinda Raajan, RS Thillak, V Aakash.

VB Kanchi Veerans – Lokeshwar S, Vishal Vaidhya. K, Aushik Srinivas R, Subramania Siva, Mukilesh U, Sunil Sam, S Arun, Deeban Lingesh K, Francis Rokins P, Siddharth S, Divakar R, Mokit Hariharan, S Chandrasekhar, S Ashwath, U Vishal, Shriram C, Baba Aparajith)

Dindigul Dragons – R Ashwin, N Jagadeesan, R Vivek, Chaturved N.S, Hari Nishaanth C, Anirudh Sita Ram.B, Mohammed M, Rohit R, Adithya Arun, Abhinav M, Silambarasan, Trilok Nag, Yazh Arun Mozhi, Sujendran M, Kaushik J, N Ramakrishnan, Ra Aravind, Nivethan Radhakrishnan, Varun M Totatri.

iDream Karaikudi Kaalai – Dinesh Karthik, Aniruda.S, V. Yo Mahesh, R Kavin, L Suryap Prakash, Lakshman, Aaditya.V, Kishan Kumar S, Radhakrishnan, Maan K Bafna, Ashwath Mukunthan, Swaminathan. S, Ajith Kumar T, S Ganesh, R Srinivasan, P Murugesh, R Rajkumar, M Shajahan and S Mohan Prasath.

Schedule of TNPL 3:

Broadcast Details

TV – StarSports 1 (English)

Live Streaming – Hotstar

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