2016 Tamil Nadu Premier League

The base price for a franchise, for a period of 10 years, has been fixed at Rs. 1.25 crore a year.

The players will be given to the franchises on a rotational basis with the team that bids the most having the first right over a particular cricketer. 

For the first five years, central rights, minus the match staging costs, will be shared 80 per cent among the eight teams with the rest going to the TNCA

As much as 65 per cent will be divided equally between the sides with the rest 15 per cent given away as per a side’s standing in the league

Only cricketers registered in Tamil Nadu are eligible for the competition. 

A salary cap of Rs. 5 lakh for Indian players has been fixed. 

For players who have represented the State, a maximum limit of Rs. 2.50 lakh has been set. The highest amount for the other players would be Rs. 1 lakh. 

No current international or first class cricketer, nor his close relatives, will be eligible to bid for a side. 

STAR India will be the broadcaster for the competition that will begin in the last week of August and continue till the second week of September 2016

The teams and their owners

The franchise representatives were allowed to pick the names of districts or towns, excluding Chennai, for their teams

Thoothukudi Sports, the top bidder at Rs. 5.21 crore was given the first choice. It chose Thoothukudi

Metronation Chennai Television, which owns Thanthi TV, was the second highest bidder at Rs. 5.13 crore, and it chose the suburb from South Chennai. 

Lyca Productions (Rs. 5.01 crore) picked Coimbatore, and Kothari (Madras) Ltd. (Rs. 4.001 crore) opted for Madurai. Ruby Builders (Rs. 3.69 crore) took Kancheepuram. 

Former India player V.B. Chandrasekar (Rs. 3.48 crore), the lone cricketer among the franchise owners, zeroed in on Thiruvallur. “As a former cricketer, I know that TNPL will be an excellent competition for spotting talent,” he had said. 

TAKE Solutions (Rs. 3.42 crore) named Dindigul, while Chettinad Apparels (Rs. 3.3 crore) homed in on Karaikudi. 

Who’s playing for which team

 

Thoothukudi

Dinesh Karthik .K, Washington Sundar .M .S, Aswin Crist .A, Abhinav Mukund, Aushik Srinivas .R., Kaushik Gandhi .M, Balaji .L, Anand Subramanian, Akash Sumra, Sathyanarayan .R, Sushil .U, Ganesh Moorthi .M, Athisayaraj Davidson .V, Maaruthi Raghav .V, Vishaal .R, Siddarth S Ahuja, Lakshman .V, Nathan .S .P, Nicul Anand .G

Chepauk

Sathish .R, Yo Mahesh .V, Thalaivan Sargunam .X, Antony Dhas .W, Gopinath .K .H, Sai Kishore .R, Sasidev .U, Joel Joseph .J, Tamil Kumaran .D, Alexandar .R, Vasanth Saravanan .S, Rahul .B, Ashwath Mukunthan, Karthik .S, Rajeel Abdul Rahman, Nirmal Kumar .P .S, Vasudevan .S .I, Aditya Barooah, Shibi Jawahar .V

Coimbatore

Vijay .M, Syed Mohammed .J, Mohammed .M, Suryap Prakash .L, Vijay Shankar, Siva Kumar .M .K, Rohith .R, Vignesh .K, Anirudh Sita Ram .B, Ajith Ram .S, Harish Kumar .S, Akshay V Srinivasan, Arun .B, Anchit .D, Kamalesh .M, Tarun Srinivas .S, Adhithya Giridhar, Gowtham Thamarai Kannan .K

Madurai

Arun Karthick .K .B, Suresh Kumar .S, Thiyagarajan .S, Francis Rokins .P, Chandrasekar .D .T, Vignesh Ganapathi, Raja .M, Shijit Chandran .P, Vignesh .L, Maan K Bafna, Muruganantham .S .V, Aswin Kumar .S, Amarnath .P, Varun Narendar, Sakthi .P, Anton Andrew Subikshan .M, Mihir .R Edward Kennedy .A, Madhu .C

Kancheepuram

Indrajith .B, Kousik .J, Jesuraj .R, Shahrukh Khan .M, Bharath Shankar .K, Prathiban .A .C, Varun Kumar .K, Prabhu .M, Kaushik .J, Ganesh .L, Adithya Ganesh, Siddharth .S, Suthesh .R, Nilesh Subramanian .R, Akkil Srinaath, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Mitchell Anthony Mannays, Trilok Nag .H, Aditya .B

Didigul

Ashwin .R, Ashwin .M, Natarajan .T, Sanjay .M .S, Jagadeesan .N, Ganga Sridhar Raju .V, Subramania Siva .V, Sunny Kumar Singh .Y, Mukunth .K, Wilkins Victor, Ashwin Venkataraman, Shyam Sundar .S, Dinesh .S, Yazh Arun Mozhi .M .E, Prashanth Prabhu .D, Abishiek .S, Vivek .R, Adithya Arun, Silambarasan .M

Tiruvallur

Aparajith .B, Abhishek Tanwar, Rahil S Shah, Kavin .R, Chaturved .N .S, Malolan Rangarajan, Rohit .R, Jaganath Sinivas .R S, Vignesh .G .V, Sanjay Yadav .R, Arun .S, Samruddh Bhat, Hari Nishaanth .C, Lakshminarayanan .M, Govindaraj .D, Silambarasan .R, Mukilesh .U, Samuel .S, Santosh Shiv .S

Karaikudi

Badrinath .S Aniruda .S, Sunil Sam, Suresh Babu .M, Lokeshwar .S, Ganapathi Chandrasekar, Shoaib Md Khan, Vishal Vaidhya .K, Sonu Yadav .R, Rajkumar .R, Mohan Prasath .S, Vijay Kumar .M, Abhinav .M, Jerome .A, Srinivasan .R, Kiran Akash .L, Sujay .S, Swaminathan .S, Shajahan .M