Salem Spartans

**Salem Spartans**, is a cricket team representing Salem district in the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association T20 League tournament, Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL). The team is owned by Vivo Chennai south distributor Selvakumar M.

Salem Spartans is the costliest team in TNPL with  of brand value. This is the highest brand in TNPL.

## Team history

In 2019 franchise Albert Tuti Patriots removed co-owners of a franchise. So in 2020 the team Tuti Patriots was renamed as Salem Spartans  due to the change of ownership from Thoothukodi sports and private entertainment LTD to M.Selvakumar (VIVO South Chennai distributor).

## Team identity

The team play in a jersey that grades from yellow through orange to red. The strip's trousers are black.

The team's anthem song is starting with the term Vanakkam Da Mapla (). The lyrics were also written by people from the areas around Salem City. The team hashtag is #VanakkamDaMapla, which is used in the anthem.

The term Spartans refers to the people who are always simple, it means the people's from Salem is always simple. Logo of the franchise Salem Spartans is also designed like a simple men take efforts to defend him from predators . Like wise the franchise is also simple but it will take much more efforts to defend the team from opponents and for the victory.

## Current squad

- Players with international caps are listed in **bold**.
- Players with state caps are listed in _italic._

|Name|Batting style|Bowling style|Year signed|Experience|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Abishek S|Right-handed|Right-arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|District||
|_Jafar Jamal_|Right-handed|Right arm|style="text-align:center;"|2022|State||
|**Washington Sundhar**|Legt-handed|Right-arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|International||
|**Vijay Shankar**|Right-handed|Right-arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|International||
|_Murugan Ashwin_|Right-handed|Right-arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|State||
|_Daryl Ferrario_|Right-handed|Right arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|State|Captain|
|R Karthikeyan|Right-handed|Right arm|style="text-align:center;"|2021|District||
|Jeet S Jain|Right-handed|Right-arm|style="text-align:center;"|2022|District||
|Pranesh B|Right-handed|Right-arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|District||
|Lokesh Raj TD|Right-handed|Right arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|District||
|Kishoor G|Right-handed|Right arm|style="text-align:center;"|2021|District||
|Karthikeyan R|Left-handed|Left arm|style="text-align:center;"|2021|District||
|Boopalan S|Left-handed|Left arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|District||
|Akshay V Srinivasan|Right-handed|Right arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|District||
|Praanesh B|Left-handed|Right arm|style="text-align:center;"|2022|District||
|_Gopinath KH_|Right-handed|Right-arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|State|Vice Captain|
|_Kavin R_|Right-handed|Right-arm|style="text-align:center;"|2022|District||
|Ganesh S|Right - handed|Right - arm|2022|District|||
|Dinesh Veda Guru M|Right-handed|Right arm|style="text-align:center;"|2021|District||
|_Ganeshan Periyasamy_|Right-handed|Right-arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|State||
|Rishi R|Right - handed|Right - arm|2022|District|||
|Ganesh Moorthi|Left-handed|Left-arm|style="text-align:center;"|2020|District||

## Support staff

|Position|Name||
| --- | --- | --- |
|Head coach|Ramaswamy Prasanna||
|Assistant coach|Sai Rupesh||
|rowspan="2"|Fielding coach|Shyam Sundhar|
|Porselvan|||
|rowspan="2"|Trainer|RD Ashwin Kumar|
|Vimal Chandrasekharn|||
|Team manager|R Krishna||
|rowspan="2"|Physio|Perooru Rupesh|
|Vaira  Sudharshan|||

## Statistics

|Year|Played|Wins|Losses|No result|Points|Position|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|7|4|3|0|8|3/8||
|7|7|0|0|14|1/8||
|7|4|3|0|8|5/8||
|7|2|5|0|4|6/8||
|colspan="6"|Season suspended due to the COVID 19 pandemic||||||
|7|2|4|1|5|7/8||
|7|1|6|0|2|8/8||
|**42**|**20**|**21**|**1**|–|||

## Seasons

Salem Spartans is playing their inaugural season in 2021.

## Sponsors and kit manufacturers

|Principal sponsor|Associate sponsors|
| --- | --- |
|Sky Exchange|* Vision 11 * Freyer International * Taj 777 News * AVR Pay News * Jones Infrastructure * Sumangali Homes * Envission * Sportus|
|colspan="2"|Source :|

## Other websites

- TNPL Official Page

## Infobox (cricket team)

- **name**: Salem Spartans
- **nickname**: Namma Spartans
- **league**: Tamil Nadu Premier League
- **captain**: Abhishek Selvakumar
- **city**: Salem, Tamil Nadu
- **owner**: Selva Kumar M
- **founded**: 2020
- **ground**: Salem Cricket Foundation Stadium
- **title1**: Tamil Nadu Premier League, TNPL
- **title1wins**: 2016