Tamil Nadu Premier League 2018 Schedule: TNPL Match Timings, Free Live Streaming Online and Telecast Details of TV Channels

The third edition of Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL), also known as Tamil Nadu Premier League 2018 kick-started on July 11 and continue until August 12. A domestic Twenty20 cricket league played in the state of Tamil Nadu hosted its inaugural edition in the year 2016. The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) formed tournament has eight teams participating this season. Tamil Nadu Premier League 2018 Schedule Timetable has fixtures involving Chepauk Super Gillies (defending champions), Kovai Kings, Dindigul Dragons, Ruby Trichy Warriors, iDream Karaikudi Kaalai, Siechem Madurai Panthers, Tuti Patriots, and VB Kanchi Veerans. A total of 32 Twenty20 matches will be played over a period of 30 days. Cricket fans in the state and across the country can find the TNPL 2018 match timetable, timings in IST, free live streaming online and telecast details of TV channels here. You may also download TNPL 2018 schedule timetable in PDG or JPG format.

The opening match of 2018 Tamil Nadu Premier League is between Dindigul Dragons and Ruby Trichy Warriors. TNPL fixture is very unlike the IPL, wherein the defending champions kick-off their campaign playing the tournament opener. Well, it shows not everything is based on IPL rules and regulations. Here take a look at the complete schedule of Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) 2018 with date, day, match timings and venue details.

Tamil Nadu Premier League 2018 Schedule in IST

When and Where to Get Live Telecast of TNPL 2018 Matches, TV Channels in India? Star India is the official broadcaster of Tamil Nadu Premier League since the inaugural season. Cricket fans can catch the live action of all the 32 matches on Star Sports 1 and Star Sports HD1 in English commentary. There’s of course, Tamil commentary available and for that tune in to Star Sports Tamil to get the live telecast of the matches.

Is Free Live Streaming Online of TNPL 2018 Matches Available? Yes, it does. Hotstar, the digital and entertainment platform is a property owned by Star India-wholly owned subsidiary Novi Digital Entertainment. This means, catch all the live ball-by-ball action and commentary via streaming on Hotstar.

Tamil Nadu Premier League 2018 FULL Squads of Eight Teams

Chepauk Super Gillies: Vijay Shankar, Gopinath KH, M Ashwin, Harish Kumar S, Ganga Sridhar Raju, Sunny Kumar Singh, Samruddh Bhat, Arun Kumar V, Vishaal R, Rahul B, Siddharth M, Arun B, Aarif A, MK Sivakumar, Manav Parakh, B Sai Sudharsan. Retained: S Karthik, U Sasidev and RK Alexander.

Dindigul Dragons: Chaturved NS, Hari Nishaanth C, Anirudh Sita Ram B, Mohammed M, Rohit R, Adithya Arun, Abhinav M, Silambarasan, Trilok Nag, Yazh Arun Mozhi, Sujendran M, Kaushik J, N Ramakrishnan, Ra Aravind, Nivethan Radhakrishnan, Varun M Totatri. Retained: R Ashwin, N Jagadeesan and R Vivek.

IDream Karaikudi Kaalai: Dinesh Karthik, Aniruda S, V Yo Mahesh, R Kavin, L Suryap Prakash, Lakshman, Aaditya V, Kishan Kumar S, Radhakrishnan, Maan K Bafna, Ashwath Mukunthan, Swaminathan S, Ajith Kumar T, S Ganesh, R Srinivasan, P Murugesh. Retained: R Rajkumar, M Shajahan and S Mohan Prasath.

Tuti Patriots: Washington Sundar, Kaushik Gandhi, Sai Kishor R, R Sathish, Athisayaraj Davidson V, Akshay Srinivasan, Malolan Rangarajan, Ashith Rajiv, U Sushil, Dinesh S, Abishiek S, Venkatesh A, Nidish S, R Jesuraj, S Boopalan, S Shubham Mehta. Retained: Anand Subramanian, Akash Sumra and Ganesh Moorthy.

Lyca Kovai Kings: Anthony Das, Natarajan T, Abhinav Mukund, K Vignesh, Shahrukh Khan M, Akkil Srinaath, Suresh Kumar J, Mithun R, Suresh Babu, Sumant Jain, Rajesh MP, Ashwin Venkataraman, M Raja, R Sathyanarayan, Mohammed Adnan Khan, S Manikandan. Retained: Rohith Ravikumar, Pradosh Ranjan Paul and S Ajith Ram.

Siechem Madurai Panthers: Varun CV, Abhishek Tanwar, Rahil Shah, Thalaivan Sargunam.X, Kousik J, Jagannath RS, Nilesh S, Rohit D, S.P Nathan, Tushar Raheja, Kiran Akash L, Lokesh Raj T.D, SS Karnavar, Vikkram Jangid, MS Promoth, PS Shivaramakrishnan. Retained: KB Arun Karthik, Shijit Chandran and R Karthikeyan.

Trichy Warriors: Sonu Yadav, Sanjay MS, Murali Vijay, C.Ganapathi, Suresh Kumar S, Vasanth Saravanan, Aravind S, Lakshminarayanan M, Vignesh L, Chandrasekar D.T, Aswin Crist A, Mani Bharathy K, Saravana Kumar P, AS Govinda Raajan, RS Thillak, V Aakash. Retained: B Indrajith, Bharath Shankar and K Vignesh.

VB Kanchi Veerans: Lokeshwar S, Vishal Vaidhya. K, Aushik Srinivas R, Subramania Siva, Mukilesh U, Sunil Sam, S Arun, Deeban Lingesh K, Francis Rokins P, Siddharth S, Divakar R, Mokit Hariharan, S Chandrasekhar, S Ashwath, U Vishal, Shriram C. Retained: Baba Aparajith.

It’s been over a decade since Indian Premier League started in the country. Not a hidden fact that India is a cricket-obsessed nation and several states began individual competitions on the lines of successful IPL model. Tamil Nadu Premier League is one such tournament, which started a couple of years ago and has found a great acceptance from the sports lovers. The winner of the 2016 season was Tuti Patriots followed by Chepauk Super Gillies in 2017. Interestingly, the two teams had beaten the other in the finals of two seasons. It will be interesting to see if any of the other six teams can break the dominance by Tuti and Chepauk. Meanwhile, the leading run-getter of the tournament is Washington Sundar with 459 runs while R Sai Kishore with 29 wickets is the highest wicket-taking bowler.

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