2016 Tamil Nadu Premier League

Tamil Nadu Premier League 2016
Dates	July 22 – 20 August 2016
Administrator(s)	Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round Robin and Playoffs
Champions	Tuti Patriots (1st title)
Runners-up	Chepauk Super Gillies
Participants	8
Matches	31
Player of the series	Narayan Jagadeesan
Most runs	Narayan Jagadeesan (397)
Most wickets	W Anthony Das (14)
	2017 →

The 2016 season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League was the inaugural 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.^[3] Star India was the official broadcaster.^{[citation needed]}

Teams[edit]

Team	City	Captain	Coach
Chepauk Super Gillies	Chennai	Rajagopal Sathish	Hemang Badani
Kovai Kings	Coimbatore	Murali Vijay	Lance Klusener
Dindigul Dragons	Dindigul	Ravichandran Ashwin	M. Venkataramana
Trichy Warriors	Tiruchirapalli	Baba Indrajith	Brett Lee
Karaikudi Kaalai	Karaikudi	Subramaniam Badrinath	Robin Singh
Madurai Super Giants	Madurai	Arun Karthik	Michael Bevan
Tuti Patriots	Thoothukudi	Dinesh Karthik	Monty Desai
Thiruvallur Veerans	Tiruvallur	Baba Aparajith	Bharat Arun and Muttiah Muralitharan

Source:^[4]

Tournament Results[edit]

Points Table[edit]

advanced to the playoffs

Team	Played	Won	Lost	Points	NRR
Chepauk Super Gillies	7	5	2	10	+0.964
Dindigul Dragons	7	5	2	10	+0.698
Tuti Patriots	7	4	3	8	+0.414
Kovai Kings	7	4	3	8	+0.384
Karaikudi Kaalai	7	4	3	8	+0.020
Thiruvallur Veerans	7	4	3	8	-0.104
Kanchi Warriors	7	2	5	4	-0.960
Madurai Super Giants	7	0	7	0	-1.411

Source:Cricbuzz

League progression[edit]

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	SF	Final
	Group matches							Knockout
Tuti Patriots	2	2	2	2	4	6	8	W	C
Chepauk Super Gillies	0	2	4	4	6	8	10	W	RU
Dindigul Dragons	2	4	6	8	8	10	10	L
Kovai Kings	0	2	4	6	6	6	8	L
Karaikudi Kaalai	0	0	2	4	6	6	8
Thiruvallur Veerans	2	4	4	6	6	8	8
Kanchi Warriors	2	2	2	2	4	4	4
Madurai Super Giants	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Win	Loss	Super-Over	No result

C - Champion
RU - Runner-up

Fixtures[edit]

Date	Match	Team 1	Margin	Team 2	Ground	Time (IST)
24 Aug, Wed	1	Tuti Patriots	45 runs Scorecard	Chepauk Super Gillies	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
25 Aug, Thurs	2	Karaikudi Kaalai	5 wickets Scorecard	Tiruvallur Veerans	NPR College Ground, Dindigul Dragons	06:30 PM
26 Aug, Fri	3	Kovai Kings	Super Over Scorecard	Kanchi Warriors	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
27 Aug, Sat	4	Dindigul Dragons	14 runs Scorecard	Madurai Super Giants	NPR College Ground, Dindigul	02:30 PM
28 Aug, Sun	5	Chepauk Super Gillies	67 runs Scorecard	Karaikudi Kaalai	NPR College Ground, Dindigul	02:30 PM
29 Aug, Mon	6	Tiruvallur Veerans	6 runs Scorecard	Madurai Super Giants	NPR College Ground, Dindigul	06:30 PM
30 Aug, Tues	7	Dindigul Dragons	48 runs Scorecard	Kanchi Warriors	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
31 Aug, Wed	8	Tuti Patriots	9 wickets Scorecard	Kovai Kings	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
1 Sep, Thu	9	Dindigul Dragons	29 runs Scorecard	Tiruvallur Veerans	India Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli	06:30 PM
2 Sep, Fri	10	Kovai Kings	10 runs Scorecard	Madurai Super Giants	India Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli	06:30 PM
3 Sep, Sat	11	Karaikudi Kaalai	8 runs Scorecard	Tuti Patriots	India Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli	02:30 PM
3 Sep, Sat	12	Kanchi Warriors	7 wickets Scorecard	Chepauk Super Gillies	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
4 Sep, Sun	13	Tuti Patriots	Super Over Scorecard	Dindigul Dragons	India Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli	06:30 PM
5 Sep, Mon	14	Tiruvallur Veerans	42 runs Scorecard	Kanchi Warriors	India Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli	02:30 PM
5 Sep, Mon	15	Kovai Kings	11 runs Scorecard	Chepauk Super Gillies	India Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli	06:30 PM
6 Sep, Tues	16	Karaikudi Kaalai	52 runs Scorecard	Madurai Super Giants	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
7 Sep, Wed	17	Tiruvallur Veerans	6 wickets Scorecard	Tuti Patriots	NPR College Ground, Dindigul	06:30 PM
8 Sep, Thu	18	Chepauk Super Gillies	6 runs Scorecard	Dindigul Dragons	NPR College Ground, Dindigul	06:30 PM
9 Sep, Fri	19	Madurai Super Giants	& wickets Scorecard	Kanchi Warriors	NPR College Ground, Dindigul	02:30 PM
9 Sep, Fri	20	Karaikudi Kaalai	36 runs Scorecard	Kovai Kings	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
10 Sep, Sat	21	Chepauk Super Gillies	55 runs Scorecard	Madurai Super Giants	NPR College Ground, Dindigul	02:30 PM
10 Sep, Sat	22	Tiruvallur Veerans	2 runs Scorecard	Kovai Kings	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
11 Sep, Sun	23	Karaikudi Kaalai	7 wickets Scorecard	Dindigul Dragons	NPR College Ground, Dindigul	02:30 PM
11 Sep, Sun	24	Kanchi Warriors	9 wickets Scorecard	Tuti Patriots	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
12 Sep, Mon	25	Chepauk Super Gillies	41 runs Scorecard	Tiruvallur Veerans	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
13 Sep, Tues	26	Kovai Kings	16 runs Scorecard	Dindigul Dragons	India Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli	02:30 PM
13 Sep, Tues	27	Tuti Patriots	33 runs Scorecard	Madurai Super Giants	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	06:30 PM
14 Sep, Wed	28	Kanchi Warriors	3 wickets Scorecard	Karaikudi Kaalai	India Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli	06:30 PM

Team 1 - 1st innings.
Winner in bold.

Playoffs[edit]

Semi final
16 September 2016
6:30 P.M. (D/N)
Scorecard

Tuti Patriots 187/8 (20 overs)	v	Dindigul Dragons 149/8 (18.5 overs)
Abhinav Mukund 91 (55) Sunny Singh 3/34 (4 overs)		N Jagadeesan 59(41) Washington Sundar 4/23 (4 overs)

Tuti Patriots won by 38 runs
Indian Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli
Umpires: Krishnaraj Srinath and Krishnamachari Srinivasan
Player of the match: Abhinav Mukund (Patriots)

Patriots won the toss and elected to bat

Semi final
17 September 2016
6:30 P.M. (D/N)
Scorecard

Chepauk Super Gillies 161/7 (20 overs)	v	Kovai Kings 144/9 (18.5 overs)
Vasanth Saravanan 52(39) K Vignesh 2/21 (4 overs)		L Suryaprakash 38(28) Anthony Das 3/21 (4 overs)

Chepauk Super Gillies won by 17 runs
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Umpires: Rajesh Kannan R and R Sundar
Player of the match: Vasanth Saravanan (Super Gillies)

Super Gillies won the toss and elected to bat

Final
18 September 2016
6:30 P.M. (D/N)
Scorecard

Tuti Patriots 215/2 (20 overs)	v	Chepauk Super Gillies 93 (18.5 overs)
Abhinav Mukund 82*(52) Sai Kishore 1/35 (4 overs)		Vasanth Saravanan 30(34) Ganesh Moorthi 4/11 (4 overs)

Tuti Patriots won by 122 runs
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Umpires: Krishnaraj Srinath and Krishnamachari Srinivasan
Player of the match: Ganesh Moorthi (Patriots)

Patriots won the toss and elected to bat

References[edit]

^ "TNPL Most runs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
^ "TNPL Most wickets". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
^ "Tamil Nadu Premier League". TNCA. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
^ "Teams in TNPL". Cricbuzz. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

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[1] "TNPL Most runs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

[2] "TNPL Most wickets". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 January 2018.

[3] "Tamil Nadu Premier League". TNCA. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

[4] "Teams in TNPL". Cricbuzz. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

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