There is just one main change to the second edition of the TNPL and that is the format of the playoffs. While the inaugural edition of the tournament saw two semi-finals and then the winners contesting the final, this edition will see the IPL-style format being used with two qualifiers and an eliminator deciding which teams progress through to the final.
The other slight change as far as the tournament is concerned is the timings of the matches. Unlike last year, matches this year will begin at 7.30 PM apart from days in which there are two matches, wherein they will be played at 3.30 PM and 7.30 PM.
All eight teams who competed in the First Seasoncompeted in the first season are back this time around, although two teams have made slight tweaks to their names. The franchise owned by Ruby have become the Ruby Trichy Warriors instead of the Ruby Kanchi Warriors.
And following in the footsteps of the Pune franchise, the Madurai franchise have decided to drop the “s” at the end of their name and will be Madurai Super Giant and will be looking to replicate the performance of Pune, who made it to the final of IPL 2017
Participating Teams
1)Albert TUTI Patriots
The defending champions TUTI Patriots once again begin as the favourites and have the perfect blend of youth and experience.
Squad: Maaruthi Raghav, V Athisayaraj Davidson, Dinesh Karthik, Washington Sundar, Aswin Crist, Abhinav Mukund, Aushik Srinivas, Kaushik Gandhi, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Subramanian Anand, Akash Sumra, R Sathyanarayan, Umashankar Sushil, M Ganesh Moorthi, R Vishaal, Siddarth Ahuja, V Lakshman, SP Nathan, G Nicul Anand.
2)Chepauk Super Gillies
With largely the same squad that got to the final last time around, veteran Rajagopal Sathish will be hoping to take his side one step further this time around.
Squad: Rajagopal Sathish, Yo Mahesh, Thalaivan Sargunam, Antony Dhas, Gopinath, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Uthirasamy Sasidev, Joel Joseph, Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran, R Alexander, Sathiamoorty Saravanan, Baskaran Rahul, Ashwath Mukumthan, S Karthik, Aditya Barooah, Jothimani Gowjith Subhash, Arun Kumar, Rangaraj Suthesh, S Radhakrishnan.
3)Lyca Kovai Kings
Although they have plenty of promising bowlers, the two Vijays, Vijay Shankar and Murali Vijay are unlikely to take part in this year’s tournament owing to the India A tour and injury respectively.
Squad: M Siddharth, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Manish Ravi, K Deeban Lingesh, Murali Vijay, JS Mohammad, M Mohammed, L Suryaprakash, Vijay Shankar, MK Sivakumar, Ravi Kumar Rohith, Krishnamoorthy Vignesh, B Anirudh Sita Ram, S Ajith Ram, S Harish Kumar, Akshay Srinivasan, B Arun, S Tarun Srinivas, K Gowtham Thamarai Kannan, Ranjan Paul.
4)Dindigul Dragons
Despite some splendid individual performances in the inaugural edition of the tournament, Dragons failed to make the final and they will be looking to correct that this time around.
Squad: S Kishan Kumar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Murugan Ashwin, T Natarajan, MS Sanjay, N Jagadeesan, Ganga Sridhar Raju, Subramania Siva, Sunny Kumar Singh, K Mukunth, Wilkins Victor, Ashwin Venkataraman, ME Yazh Arun Mozhi, S Abishiek, R Vivek, Adithya Arun, M Silambarasan, S Dinesh.
5)Madurai Super Giant
Although they don’t boast of too many big-name players, Madurai Super Giant have some youngsters who could spring up a surprise or two.
Squad: Sivagnanan Senthilnathan, PS Sivaramakrishnan, K Mani Bharathi, Murugan Ganesh, R Ajith, M Poiyamozhi, Arun Karthik, Suresh Kumar, P Francis Rokins, DT Chandrasekar, M Raja, Shijit Chandran, Lakshminarayanan Vignesh, Muruganantham, Palani Amarnath, Edward Kennedy, Shahrukh Khan, R Karthikeyan, D Prashanth Prabhu.
6)VB Thiruvallur Veerans
With captain Baba Aparajith available for the entire duration of the tournament, Veerans will be looking to make the most of the experienced support staff and go through to the playoffs.
Squad: Vignesh, R Rajan, RD Ashwin Kumar, Hari Nishanth, Baba Aparajith, Abhishek Tamrakar , Rahil Shah, R Kavin, NS Chaturved, Malolan Rangarajan, Ramalingam Rohit, Jaganath Sinivas, Sanjay Yadav, S Arun, Lakshmi Narayanan, Silambarasan, U Mukilesh, Samuel, Anand Rajan, S Siddharth.
7)Karaikudi Kaalai
With the ideal mix of exciting youngsters, including a 14-year-old and some experience, Kaalai are one to watch out for.
Squad: Varun Chakravathi, Shikhar Hukku, Srikkanth Anirudha, Aashish Srikrishnan, Nivethan Radhakrishnan, S Badrinath, Sunil Sam, Suresh Babu, S Lokeshwar, Chandrasekar Ganapathy, Shoaib Md Khan, K Vishal Vaidhya, R Sonu Yadav, R Rajkumar, S Mohan Prasath, M Vijay Kumar, Rajhamany Srinivasan, M Shajahan, Trilok Nag.
8)Ruby Trichy Warriors
The Warriors will be hoping that a change in name brings forward a change in fortunes for the side.
Squad: Kannan Vignesh, N Prashid Akash, M Monokaran, RS Mokit Hariharan, J Jabez Moses, Baba Indrajith, Jagatheesan Kousik, Rajamani Jesuraj, Bharath Shankar, Alagh Prathiban, Krishna Varun Kumar, Murthy Prabhu, Jagannathan Kaushik, Adithya Ganesh, Nilesh Subramanian, Akkil Srinaath, Anthony Mannays, B Aditya, Adhithya Giridhar
Schedule
| Match No | Date | Time | Fixture | Venue |
| 1 | 22 July 2017 | 7.30 pm | Albert Tuti Patriots vs Dindigul Dragons | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
| 2 | 23 July 2017 | 7.30 pm | LYCA Kovai Kings vs Karaikudi Kaalai | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 3 | 24 July 2017 | 7.30 pm | Chepauk Super Gillies vs
VB Thiruvallur Veerans
| ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 4 | 25 July 2017 | 7.30 pm | Madurai Super Giant vs Dindigul Dragons | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 5 | 26 July 2017 | 7.30 pm | Ruby Trichy Warriors vs Albert Tuti Patriots | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 6 | 27 July 2017 | 7.30 pm | Madurai Super Giant vs Karaikudi Kaalai | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 7 | 28 July 2017 | 7.30 pm | Dindigul Dragons vs
VB Thiruvallur Veerans
| ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 8 | 29 July 2017 | 7.30 pm | Chepauk Super Gillies vs LYCA Kovai Kings | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
| 9 | 30 July 2017 | 3.30 pm | Karaikudi Kaalai vs Albert Tuti Patriots | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 10 | 30 July 2017 | 7.30 pm | VB Thiruvallur Veerans vs Ruby Trichy Warriors | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 11 | 31 July 2017 | 7.30 pm | LYCA Kovai Kings vs Dindigul Dragons | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 12 | 1 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Chepauk Super Gillies vs Albert Tuti Patriots | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 13 | 2 Aug 2017 | 3.30 pm | Karaikudi Kaalai vs VB Thiruvallur Veerans | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 14 | 2 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Ruby Trichy Warriors vs Madurai Super Giant | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 15 | 3 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Albert Tuti Patriots vs LYCA Kovai Kings | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 16 | 4 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Karaikudi Kaalai vs Chepauk Super Gillies | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
| 17 | 5 Aug 2017 | 3.30 pm | Dindigul Dragons vs Ruby Trichy Warriors | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 18 | 5 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | VB Thiruvallur Veerans vs Albert Tuti Patriots | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 19 | 6 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Madurai Super Giant vs Chepauk Super Gillies | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
| 20 | 7 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Dindigul Dragons vs Karaikudi Kaalai | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 21 | 8 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Madurai Super Giant vs VB Thiruvallur Veerans | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 22 | 9 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Chepauk Super Gillies vs Ruby Trichy Warriors | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 23 | 10 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | LYCA Kovai Kings vs Madurai Super Giant | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 24 | 11 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Karaikudi Kaalai vs Ruby Trichy Warriors | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 25 | 12 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | VB Thiruvallur Veerans vs LYCA Kovai Kings | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
| 26 | 13 Aug 2017 | 3.30 pm | Albert Tuti Patriots vs Madurai Super Giant | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 27 | 13 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Dindigul Dragons vs Chepauk Super Gillies | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 28 | 14 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Ruby Trichy Warriors vs LYCA Kovai Kings | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
| 29 | 15 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Qualifier 1 | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
| 30 | 16 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Eliminator | NPR College Ground, Dindigul |
| 31 | 18 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Qualifier 2 | ICL Ground, Tirunelveli |
| 32 | 20 Aug 2017 | 7.30 pm | Final | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
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