Tamil Nadu cricket team

The Tamil Nadu cricket team is one of the Elite Group cricket teams 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 the fact that the name of the team was also Madras until the 1970-71 season.

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.

Famous players

* Krishnamachari Srikkanth
* Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
* Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
* Bharath Reddy
* Sadagoppan Ramesh
* Dinesh Karthik
* Robin Singh
* Hemang Badani
* Lakshmipathy Balaji

Current squad

"2006-07 Ranji Trophy Super League squad [ [http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/squad/269036.html Cricinfo - Tamil Nadu ] ] "

* S. Badrinath (c)
* S. Anirudha
* R. Ashwin
* H. K. Badani
* L. Balaji
* R. Jesuraj
* A. R. Kapoor
* D. T. Kumaran
* V. Y. Mahesh
* R. Naresh
* R. Prasanna
* R. Sathish
* S. Sharath
* C. Suresh
* K. Varun Kumar (wk)
* K. Vasudevadas
* S. Vidyut
* G. Vignesh
* M. Vijay
* M. Vikram (wk)Coach: W. V. Raman
Manager: D. Sivanandam

References