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{{Infobox cricket tournament
| name                 = Tamil Nadu Premier League 2018
| image                = 
| caption  = Namma Ooru Namma Gethu
| fromdate = {{Start date|2018|07|11}}
| todate   = {{End date|2018|08|12}}
| administrator        =[[Tamil Nadu Cricket Association]] 
| cricket format       = [[Twenty20]]
| tournament format    = [[Round-robin tournament|Round Robin]] and [[Playoffs]]
| host                 = tamilnadu 
| champions            =[[Madurai Panthers]] ( 1st Title ) 
| count                = 
| runner up            =[[Dindigul Dragons]] 
| participants         = 8
| matches              = 32
| attendance           = 
| player of the series = 
| most runs            =472 runs ( Arun Karthik ) [[Siechem Madurai Panthers]] 
| most wickets         =15 wickets ( AB Tanwar ) [[Siechem Madurai Panthers]] 
| website              = [http://www.tnca.cricket/tnpremierleague/index.html Tamil Nadu Premier League]
| drs                  = 
| previous_year        = 2017
| previous_tournament  = 2017 Tamil Nadu Premier League
| next_year            = [[2019 Tamil Nadu Premier League | 2019]]
| next_tournament      = 
}}


The '''2018 season of the [[Tamil Nadu Premier League]]''' is the third 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tnca.cricket/tnpl/|title=Tamil Nadu Premier League|work=TNCA|access-date=26 January 2018}}</ref>

==Teams==

{| class="wikitable sortable" 
|-
!| '''Team'''
!| '''City'''
!| '''Captain'''
!| '''Coach'''
|-
| [[Chepauk Super Gillies]]
| [[Chennai]]
| [[Vijay Shankar (cricketer)|Vijay Shankar]]
| [[Hemang Badani]]
|- 
| [[Lyca Kovai Kings|Kovai Kings]]
| [[Coimbatore]]
| [[T Natarajan]]
| [[Lance Klusener]]
|- 
| [[Dindigul Dragons]]
| [[Dindigul]]
| [[Ravichandran Ashwin]]
| [[M. Venkataramana]]
|- 
| [[Ruby Trichy Warriors|Trichy Warriors]]
| [[Tiruchirapalli]]
| [[Baba Indrajith]]
| [[Tinu Yohannan]] and [[Brett Lee]]
|- 
| [[Karaikudi Kaalai]]
| [[Karaikudi]]
| [[Subramaniam Badrinath]]
| [[Robin Singh (cricketer)|Robin Singh]]
|- 
| [[Madurai Super Giants]]
| [[Madurai]]
| [[Abhishek Tanwar]]
| [[Michael Bevan]]
|- 
| [[Albert Tuti Patriots|Tuti Patriots]]
| [[Thoothukudi]]
| [[Washington Sundar]]
| [[Monty Desai]]
|- 
| [[Thiruvallur Veerans]]
| [[Tiruvallur]]
| [[Baba Aparajith]]
| 
|}
Source: ''Cricbuzz''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-series/2716/tamil-nadu-premier-league-2018/squads|title=Teams in TNPL|work=Cricbuzz|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref>

===Squads===
{|class="wikitable  mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" 
|-
! scope="col" | [[Chepauk Super Gillies]]
! scope="col" | [[Lyca Kovai Kings|Kovai Kings]]
! scope="col" | [[Dindigul Dragons]]
! scope="col" | [[Madurai Super Giants]]
! scope="col" | [[Karaikudi Kaalai]]
! scope="col" | [[Ruby Trichy Warriors|Trichy Warriors]]
! scope="col" | [[Thiruvallur Veerans]]
! scope="col" | [[Albert Tuti Patriots|Tuti Patriots]]
|- 
||
*  Vijay Shankar
*  Gopinath
*  Murugan Ashwin
*  S Harish Kumar
*  Ganga Sridhar Raju
*  Sunny Kumar Singh
*  Samruddh Bhat
*  Arun Kumar
*  R Vishaal
*  M Siddharth
*  MK Sivakumar
*  S Karthik
*  R Alexander
*  Uthirasamy Sasidev
*  Baskaran Rahul
*  A Aarif
*  Manav Parakh
*  Sai Sudharsan
*  B Arun
||
* T Natarajan
* Abhinav Mukund
* Shahrukh Khan
* Akkil Srinaath
* Ashwin Venkataraman
* R Sathyanarayan
* Antony Dhas
* Krishnamoorthy Vignesh
* M Raja
* S Ajith Ram
* Ravi Kumar Rohith
* Suresh Babu
* Pradosh Ranjan Paul
* S Manigandan
* R Mithun
* Muhammed Khan
* Prasanth Rajesh
* Sumant Jain
* J Suresh Kumar
||

* Ravichandran Ashwin
* NS Chaturved
* Hari Nishanth
* Balchander Anirudh
* Adithya Arun
* M Silambarasan
* Trilok Nag
* ME Yazh Arun Mozhi
* Jagannathan Kaushik
* Nivethan Radhakrishnan
* M Mohammed
* Ramalingam Rohit
* N Jagadeesan
* R Vivek
* Ra Aravind
* N Ramakrishnan
* Varun Totadri
* M Sujendran
* Mohan Abhinav
||

* Abhishek Tanwar
* Rahil Shah
* Thalaivan Sargunam
* Jagatheesan Kousik
* Jaganath Sinivas
* Nilesh Subramanian
* SP Nathan
* Kiran Akash
* Lokesh Raj
* Vikram Jangid
* Arun Karthik
* R Karthikeyan
* Shijit Chandran
* PS Sivaramakrishnan
* MS Promoth
* Tushar Raheja
* SS Karnavar
* D Rohit
* Varun Chakravathi
||

* S Ganesh
* Dinesh Karthik
* Srikkanth Anirudha
* Yo Mahesh
* R Kavin
* L Suryaprakash
* Velidi Lakshman
* S Kishan Kumar
* S Radhakrishnan
* Maan Bafna
* Ashwath Mukumthan
* S Swaminathan
* T Ajith Kumar
* M Shajahan
* V Aditya
* R Rajkumar
* S Mohan Prasath
* P Murgesh
* Rajhamany Srinivasan

||
* Baba Indrajith
* MS Sanjay
* R Sonu Yadav
* Chandrasekar Ganapathy
* Sathiamoorty Saravanan
* Lakshminarayanan Vignesh
* Lakshmi Narayanan
* DT Chandrasekar
* K Mani Bharathi
* Murali Vijay
* Bharath Shankar
* S Aravind
* Kannan Vignesh
* Aswin Crist
* V Aakash
* Govinda Raajan
* Suresh Kumar
* Saravan Kumar
* RS Thillak
* Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran

||
* K Vishal Vaidhya
* Aushik Srinivas
* V Subramania Siva
* U Mukilesh
* Sunil Sam
* K Deeban Lingesh
* S Siddharth
* P Francis Rokins
* RS Mokit Hariharan
* Baba Aparajith(c)
* R Silambarasan
* S Arun
* Sanjay Yadav
* Suresh Lokeshwar
* S Ashwath
* S Chandrashekar
* R Divakar
* C Shriram
* U Vishal

||
* Washington Sundar
* Kaushik Gandhi
* Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore
* Rajagopal Sathish
* V Athisayaraj Davidson
* Akshay Srinivasan
* Malolan Rangarajan
* Umashankar Sushil
* S Dinesh
* S Abishiek
* Nidish Rajagopal
* Rajamani Jesuraj
* A Venkatesh
* Akash Sumra
* Subramanian Anand
* M Ganesh Moorthi
* S Boopalan
* Ashith Sanganakal
* Shubham Mehta
* Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran
|}
==Fixtures and Match Summary==
{{Expand section|date=July 2018}}
The [https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-series/2716/tamil-nadu-premier-league-2018/matches schedule of the round robin matches] is provided below in details.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-series/2716/tamil-nadu-premier-league-2018/matches|title=2018 Tamil Nadu Premier League-Fixtures|work=Cricbuzz|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref>

==Tournament Results==
===Points Table===
* {{Color box|#cfd|border=darkgray}} advanced to the playoffs
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! '''Team'''
! '''Played'''
! '''Won'''
! '''Lost'''
! '''Tie'''
! '''NR'''
! '''Points'''
! '''NRR'''
|-style="background:#cfd;"
| [[Dindigul Dragons]] || 7 || 5 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 10 || +0.992
|-style="background:#cfd;"
| [[Madurai Super Giants|Madurai Panthers]] || 7 || 5 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 10 || +0.124
|-style="background:#cfd;"
| [[Lyca Kovai Kings]] || 7 || 4 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 8 || +0.577
|-style="background:#cfd;"
| [[Karaikudi Kaalai]] || 7 || 4 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 8 ||+0.505 
|-
| [[Albert Tuti Patriots|Tuti Patriots]] || 7 || 4 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 8 || −0.432
|-
| [[Ruby Trichy Warriors]] || 7 || 4 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 8 || −0.011
|-
| [[VB Thiruvallur Veerans|VB Kanchi Veerans]] || 7 || 1 || 6 || 0 || 0 || 0 || −0.870
|-
| [[Chepauk Super Gillies]] || 7 || 1 || 6 || 0 || 0 || 0 || −1.621
|}

==References==
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