# 2018 Tamil Nadu Premier League

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.

## 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

### Squads

| Chepauk Super Gillies | Kovai Kings | Dindigul Dragons | Madurai Super Giants | Karaikudi Kaalai | Trichy Warriors | VB Kanchi Veerans | Tuti Patriots |
| Vijay Shankar  Gopinath  Murugan Ashwin  S Harish Kumar  Ganga Sridhar Raju  Sunny Kumar Singh  Samruddh Bhat  Arun Kumar  R Vishaal  M Siddharth  MK Sivakumar  S Karthik  R Alexander  Uthirasamy Sasidev  Baskaran Rahul  A Aarif  Manav Parakh  Sai Sudharsan  B Arun | T. Natarajan  Abhinav Mukund  Shahrukh Khan  Akkil Srinaath Ashwin Venkataraman  R Sathyanarayan  Antony Dhas  Krishnamoorthy Vignesh  M Raja  S Ajith Ram  Ravi Kumar Rohith  Suresh Babu  Pradosh Ranjan Paul  S Manigandan  R Mithun  Muhammed Khan  Prasanth Rajesh  Sumant Jain  J Suresh Kumar | Ravichandran Ashwin  NS Chaturved  C Hari Nishaanth  Balchander Anirudh  Adithya Arun  M Silambarasan  Trilok Nag  ME Yazh Arun Mozhi  Jagannathan Kaushik  Nivethan Radhakrishnan  M Mohammed  Ramalingam Rohit  N Jagadeesan  R Vivek  Ra Aravind  N Ramakrishnan  Varun Totadri  M Sujendran  Mohan Abhinav | Abhishek Tanwar  Rahil Shah  Thalaivan Sargunam  Jagatheesan Kousik  Jaganath Sinivas  Nilesh Subramanian  SP Nathan  Kiran Akash  Lokesh Raj  Vikram Jangid  Arun Karthik  R Karthikeyan  Shijit Chandran  PS Sivaramakrishnan  MS Promoth  Tushar Raheja  SS Karnavar  D Rohit  Varun Chakravarthy | S Ganesh  Dinesh Karthik  Srikkanth Anirudha  Yo Mahesh  R Kavin  L Suryaprakash  Velidi Lakshman  S Kishan Kumar  S Radhakrishnan  Maan Bafna  Ashwath Mukumthan  S Swaminathan  T Ajith Kumar  M Shajahan  V Aditya  R Rajkumar  S Mohan Prasath  P Murgesh  Rajhamany Srinivasan | Baba Indrajith  MS Sanjay  Sonu Yadav  Chandrasekar Ganapathy  Sathiamoorty Saravanan Lakshminarayanan Vignesh  Lakshmi Narayanan  DT Chandrasekar  K Mani Bharathi  Murali Vijay  Bharath Shankar  S Aravind  Kannan Vignesh  Aswin Crist  V Aakash  Govinda Raajan  Selvam Suresh Kumar  Saravan Kumar  RS Thillak  Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran | K Vishal Vaidhya Aushik Srinivas  V Subramania Siva  U Mukilesh  Sunil Sam  K Deeban Lingesh  S Siddharth  P Francis Rokins  RS Mokit Hariharan  Baba Aparajith  R Silambarasan  S Arun  Sanjay Yadav  Suresh Lokeshwar  S Ashwath  S Chandrashekar  R Divakar  C Shriram  U Vishal | Washington Sundar  Kaushik Gandhi Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore  Rajagopal Sathish  V. Athisayaraj Davidson  Akshay Srinivasan  Malolan Rangarajan  Umashankar Sushil  S Dinesh  S Abishiek  Nidish Rajagopal  Rajamani Jesuraj  A Venkatesh  Akash Sumra  Subramanian Anand  M Ganesh Moorthi  S Boopalan  Ashith Sanganakal  Shubham Mehta  Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran |

## Fixtures and match summary

The schedule of the round robin matches is provided below in details.

## Tournament results
### Points table

* advanced to the playoffs
| Team | Played | Won | Lost | Tie | NR | Points | NRR |
| Dindigul Dragons | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | +0.992 |
| Madurai Panthers | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | +0.124 |
| Lyca Kovai Kings | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.577 |
| Karaikudi Kaalai | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.505 |
| Tuti Patriots | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | −0.432 |
| Ruby Trichy Warriors | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | −0.011 |
| VB Kanchi Veerans | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −0.870 |
| Chepauk Super Gillies | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −1.621 |