Tamil Nadu cricket team

The Tamil Nadu cricket team is a domestic cricket team run by Tamil Nadu Cricket Association representing the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It has been one of the most dominant teams in white-ball domestic Indian cricket. The team plays in Ranji Trophy, the highest tier of the domestic first-class cricket tournament in India and in List A tournaments Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. They have won the Ranji Trophy twice and have finished runners-up nine times. They are the team that has won the Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy  most often. They were the first team to win the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in 2006/07. The team was known as Madras until the 1970–71 season before the Madras state was renamed Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is the only team to win the five different Indian domestic trophies (Ranji Trophy, Irani Trophy, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Vijay Hazare Trophy and Deodhar Trophy).

Home ground
The team is based at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, named after M. A. Chidambaram a former president of the BCCI. Established in 1916, it has a capacity of 38,000 and had floodlights installed in 1996.

Honours

 * Ranji Trophy
 * Winners (2): 1954–55, 1987–88
 * Runners-up (10): 1935–36, 1940–41, 1967–68, 1972–73, 1991–92, 1995–96, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2011–12, 2014–15


 * Irani Cup
 * Winners: 1988-89


 * Vijay Hazare Trophy
 * Winners (5): 2002-03, 2004-05, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2016-17
 * Runners-up (2): 2019-20, 2021-22


 * Deodhar Trophy
 * Winners: 2016-17


 * Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
 * Winners (3): 2006-07, 2020-21, 2021-22
 * Runners-up: 2019-20

Famous players
• Players from Tamil Nadu who have played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut:

• M. J. Gopalan (1934)

• Cotah Ramaswami (1936)

• C. R. Rangachari (1948)

• C. D. Gopinath (1951)

• A. G. Kripal Singh (1955)

• A. G. Milkha Singh (1960)

• Vaman Kumar (1961)

• S. Venkataraghavan (1965)

• Bharath Reddy (1979)

• T. E. Srinivasan (1981)

• Krishnamachari Srikkanth (1981)

• T. A. Sekhar (1983)

• Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (1983)

• Bharat Arun (1986)

• W. V. Raman (1988)

• M. Venkataramana (1989)

• Robin Singh (1998)

• Sadagoppan Ramesh (1999)

• Hemang Badani (2001)

• Lakshmipathy Balaji (2003)

• Dinesh Karthik (2004)

• Murali Vijay (2008)

• Subramaniam Badrinath (2010)

• Abhinav Mukund (2011)

• Ravichandran Ashwin (2011)

• Washington Sundar (2021)

• T Natarajan (2021)

• Players from Tamil Nadu who have played ODI but not Test cricket for India, along with year of ODI debut :

• V. B. Chandrasekhar (1988)

• Thiru Kumaran (1999)

• Sridharan Sriram (2000)

• Vijay Shankar (2019)

• Sai Sudharsan (2023)

• Player(s) from Tamil Nadu who have played T20I but not ODI or Test cricket for India, along with year of T20I debut :

• Varun Chakravarthy (2021)

• Sai Kishore (2023)

• Players from other state teams who also played for Tamil Nadu, and played cricket for India, along with year of debut:

• Vivek Razdan (1989)

• Aashish Kapoor (1994)

• Sandeep Warrier (2021)

• Players from Tamil Nadu who have played international cricket for another country, along with year of debut:

• Balaji Rao (2008) - (Canada)

• Prominent players without international cap

• A. G. Ram Singh (1934-1946)

Current team squad

 * Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Updated as on 20 March 2024