2018 Tamil Nadu Premier League Explained

Tamil Nadu Premier League 2018
Administrator:	Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Cricket Format:	Twenty20
Tournament Format:	Round Robin and Playoffs
Host:	tamilnadu
Champions:	Madurai Panthers (1st Title)
Runner 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
Website:	Tamil Nadu Premier League
Previous Year:	2017
Previous Tournament:	2017 Tamil Nadu Premier League
Next Year:	2019

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]

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

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
	7	5	2	0	0	10	+0.992
	7	5	2	0	0	10	+0.124
	7	4	3	0	0	8	+0.577
	7	4	3	0	0	8	+0.505
	7	4	3	0	0	8	−0.432
	7	4	3	0	0	8	−0.011
	7	1	6	0	0	2	−0.870
	7	1	6	0	0	2	−1.621

Notes and References

Web site: Tamil Nadu Premier League. TNCA. 26 January 2018. 26 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180126012720/http://www.tnca.cricket/tnpl/. dead.
Web site: Teams in TNPL. Cricbuzz. 15 July 2018.
Web site: 2018 Tamil Nadu Premier League-Fixtures. Cricbuzz. 15 July 2018.