The 1st match of Tamil Nadu Premier League 2022 is scheduled to play between Chepauk Super Gillies and Nellai Royal Kings on Thursday 23rd June 2022 at Indian Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli.

TNPL is one of the famous domestic cricket leagues in India which is working under the Tamil Nadu Cricket Asociation. In the 1st match of the TNPL season, 2022 Chepauk Super Gillies are the defending champions as they won the previous edition of this league. Nellai Royal Kings could not perform well in the previous edition of the Tamil Nadu Premier League.

Chepauk Super Gillies was the second-best performing team of TNPL 2021 after the end of the league stage matches. They beat Ruby Trichy Warriors in the final match after an interesting competition. Kaushik Gandhi is going to lead CSG in TNPL 2022. He is a good batter and has a decent record in domestic cricket. He will be leading the batting order of Chepauk Super Gillies with Uthirasamy Sasidev, Rajagopal Sathish, and S Harish Kumar.

N Jagadeesan, Nilesh Subramanian, and S Karthik are the wicket-keeper batters in the squad of Chepauk Super Gillies. CSG is also rich in the bowling department. Ravi Srinivasan Sai Kishore, B Arun, Manimaran Siddharth, Dev Rahul, R Alexander, Sandeep Warrier, Sonu Yadav, and Arun Kumar are the leading bowler with S Sujay and Jaganath Srinivas. Sai Prakash, H Prashid Akash, S Radhakrishnan, and S Vijay Kumar are also part of the squad of Chepauk Super Gillies.

Nellai Royal Kings could not perform well as many of the fans this team was expecting. They played seven matches in the league round with three wins and the same losses. Their one match was washed out by the rain and they were situated at the fifth position on the ladder. They had made some major changes in their squad for this edition. Baba Aparajith will be leading NRK in TNPL 2022. He is a batting all-rounder. The batting order of the Kings is good but not strong when we compare it with CSG. Baba Indrajith, Laxmesha Suryaprakash, G Ajitesh, Krish Jain, M Rooban Raj, Vikram Jangid, and G Satheesh Kumar are the star batters of NRK.

The bowling department of Nellai Royal Kings is strong and experienced and they have a lot of bowlers to choose the best playing XI. V Athisayaraj Davidson, NS Harish, Trilok Nag, T Veeramani, Rohan Raju, Jitendra Kumar, Sri Niranjan, Karthick Manikandan, Sanjay Yadav, and Akash Dev Kumar are the leading bowler of NRK. M Shajahan, Arya Yohan Menon, and K Easwaran are batting all-rounders in the squad of Nellai Royal Kings while Pradosh Paul is the only wicket-keeper batter on this side.

According to TNPL prediction, Chepauk Super Gillies is the favorite team to win this match. There are many factors that make Chepauk Super Gillies a favorite team to win this match.

• Chepauk Super Gillies is the defending champions of this tournament
• Chepauk Super Gillies is overall a strong team than Nellai Royal Kings
• The key players of Chepauk Super Gillies are in superb form
• The batting order of Nellai Royal Kings is strong and in good form

Nellai Royal Kings is overall a strong team as compared to the RTW especially when it comes to the batting. The batting and bowling squad of the Nellai Royal Kings is strong at least on papers, so the winning chances of today’s match for Nellai Royal Kings have been increased. The equation of winning chances of both teams for today’s match is mentioned as under.

Chepauk Super Gillies has a 52% chance to win this match
Nellai Royal Kings has a 48% chance to win this match

The toss is going to play an important role in the decision of all previously played matches of Tamil Nadu Premier League. We had seen in the previous editions of this tournament that chase is the best option for both teams at the venue of Chennai. Almost 70% of matches had been won by the bowling first. According to toss prediction, the team who will win the toss may choose to field first.

The 1st Match match of Tamil Nadu Premier League season 2022 is scheduled to be held at Indian Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli. The pitch here at this venue is flat and good for batting as there is no bounce and pace. Out-field at this venue is very fast and the ball will travel to the boundary very quickly. It also has a lot of help for the spin bowlers but almost all teams in this tournament have a strong batting order so this does not matter. According to the live cricket score, a total of 180 runs should be a par score.

The weather forecast in Tirunelveli is good for a cricket match. The forecast is predicting almost no chances of rain on match day and we will have a full match to enjoy.

Will be updated shortly.

Date: Thursday, 23rd June 2022
Time: 01:45 PM GMT / 07:15 PM LOCAL / 07:15 PM IST

Stadium: Indian Cement Company Ground
Location: Tirunelveli, India
Time Zone: UTC +05:30
Home to: Tamil Nadu

B Arun, Rajagopal Sathish, Jaganath Srinivas, S Sujay, Harish Kumar, Arun Kumar, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, N Jagadeesan, Kaushik Gandhi, R Alexander, Uthirasamy Sasidev, Sonu Yadav, Dev Rahul, Sandeep Warrier, Manimaran Siddharth, Nilesh Subramanian, S Radhakrishnan, Sai Prakash, H Prashid Akash, S Vijay Kumar, V Santhanasekar, Ajith Kumar.