TAMIL NADU PREMIER LEAGUE (TNPL) 2021
RETAINED PLAYERS LIST
Chepauk Super Gillies (19)
B Arun, S Vijayakumar, Rajagopal Sathish, R Ram Arvindh, RS Jaganath Sinivas, V Santhana Sekar, Manimaran Siddharth, S Sujay, S Harish Kumar, V Arun Kumar, H Prasidh Akash, *R Sai Kishore, Narayan Jagadeesan, V Sai Prakash, M Kaushik Gandhi, R Alexander, U Sasidev, * Sonu Yadav and D Rahul
Salem Spartans (15)
B Praanesh, S Abishiek, Akshay V Srinivasan, Murugan Ashwin, S Boopalan, Daryl S Ferrario, M Ganesh Moorthi, KH Gopinath, TD Lokesh Raj, G Periyasamy, S Shubham Mehta, U Sushil, M Vijay Kumar, Vijay Shankar and Washington Sundar
Lyca Kovai Kings (18)
P Shijit Chandran, J Suresh Kumar, J Gowjith Subash, K Vignesh, GR Manish, R Kavin, G Aravindh, V Ganga Sridhar Raju, U Mukilesh, Abhishek Tanwar, MA Atheeq Ur Rahman, N Selva Kumaran, Ashwin Venkataraman, B Sai Sudharsan, Nishaanth Kumar Alwar, Shahrukh Khan, Thangarasu Natarajan and S Ajith Ram
Siechem Madurai Panthers (17)
R Mithun, V Gowtham, PS Nirmal Kumar, NS Chaturved, P Praveen Kumar, B Anirudh Sita Ram, KB Arun Karthik, R Rohit, R Aushik Srinivas, J Kousik, DT Chandrasekar, V Aaditya, R Silambarasan, M Shajahan, K Deeban Lingesh, Varun Chakravarthy and L Kiran Akash
Ruby Trichy Warriors (19)
*B Rahul, Akash Sumra, ME Yazh Arun Mozhi, S Aniruda, M Poiyamozhi, Rahil S Shah, S Santosh Shiv, W Antony Dhas, Adithya Ganesh, Nidhish S Rajagopal, R Ganesh, Sumant Jain, Muhammed Adnan Khan, P Saravana Kumar, VP Amith Sathvik, G Hemanth Kumar, K Mukunth, G Karthick Shanmugam and Murali Vijay
Nellai Royal Kings (14)
H Trilok Nag, CH Jitendra Kumar, Sanjay Yadav, V Athisayaraj Davidson, T Ajith Kumar, M Abhinav, NS Harish, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, S Sharun Kumar, Baba Indrajith, Baba Aparajith, Ashwath Mukunthan, L Suryapprakash, S Senthil Nathan and Arjun P Murthy
Dindigul Dragons (18)
K Vishal Vaidhya, S Arun, Advaith Sharma, R Suthesh, S Swaminathan, L Vignesh, R Srinivasan, RS Mokit Hariharan, S Lokeshwar, C Hari Nishaanth, C Ashwin, MS Sanjay, V Lakshman, K Mani Bharathy, AR Siva Murugan, Ravichandran Ashwin, R Vivek and M Silambarasan
TN PREMIER LEAGUE
As many as 135 players have been retained by the eight participating franchises ahead of the upcoming TNPL season
Although the 2020 edition of TNPL did not take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teams were allowed to retain any number of players from their previous squads
The draft for the remaining slots in the squads will take place on May 7
As per a media release, the tournament schedule will be out next week
Following a change in ownership, VB Kanchi Veerans has been replaced by Nellai Royal Kings
iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans (15)
S Dinesh, S Manigandan, R Rajkumar, S Mohan Prasath, S Siddharth, S Aravind, Maan K Bafna, P Francis Rokins, K Gowtham Thamarai Kannan, Aswin Crist, Tushar Raheja, A Karuppusamy, C Shriram, M Mohammed and Dinesh Karthik
* refers to a trade