Narayan jagadeesan

The seventh season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) is upon us as eight from across the state are all set to compete against each other. The tournament this year will be held across four cities in Tamil Nadu. It starts on June 12 and the final will be played on July 12. Bet on TNPL in India via Dafabet Chepauk Super Gillies, who are the reigning champions along with Lyca Kovai Kings, are the most successful team in the history of the competition with four titles to their name. The TNPL has been a great launchpad for several talented youngsters, who after a fruitful season in the league went on to get picked by IPL teams and thereafter make their international debuts for the Indian cricket team. READ: From Varun Chakravarthy to Sai Sudharsan, here are some of the gems produced by TNPL who went on to make it big in Indian cricket. TNPL stars who played for IPL teams and Indian cricket team • Narayan Jagadeesan: The wicket-keeper batsman from Tamil Nadu burst into the scene with a scintillating show in the inaugural edition of the TNPL where he won the Player of the Tournament award scoring 397 runs. Thereafter he joined Chennai Super Kings in the IPL where he spent five years before moving to Kolkata Knight Riders in 2023. • T. Natarajan: The left-arm fast bowler made his TNPL debut in the inaugural edition of the competition where his performance earned him a call from IPL side Punjab Kings. In 2018, he joined Sunrisers Hyderabad, where he blossomed and went on to ma...

Narayan Jagadeesan isn’t an overly popular name in the Indian domestic circuit. However, when it comes to talent, he’s among the top players in the country. His prowess was evident from the fact that he started his career for Tamil Nadu with a knock of an unbeaten 123 back in 2016. Batting at No.7 in his maiden first-class match, the right-hander smashed eight fours and a couple of sixes. Since then, he has scored 1174 runs from 23 first-class games at an average of 39.13 with four centuries and as many half-centuries. In his List A career, the 25-year-old has notched 1,007 runs with two tons and five fifties. In 2018, his career took a step ahead after the MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings, the three-time Indian Premier League champions, picked him up in the auction. In five games, he got a chance to bat two times where he bagged a duck and scored 33 in the other. Meanwhile, Jagadeesan featured in CricTracker’s Question-and-Answer segment ‘Free Hit’. During the chat, he spoke about CSK, Dhoni, and other aspects of the cricket world and his personal life. Here are the excerpts from Narayan Jagadeesan’s interview: Describe the moment when CSK signed you It was a great moment for me. As a youngster, we all work for getting a deal with an IPL team. So, when the hammer went down in the auction, I was really happy and excited. Who’s the naughtiest CSK teammate? Lungi Ngidi. I’m close with him also because he pulls off a lot of pranks. Who’s the laziest cricketer in CSK? Sam Curr...

Narayan Jagadeesan Records List in List A Format Narayan Jagadeesan has the most number of consecutive tons in a single season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, having surpassed players like Virat Kohli, Prithvi Shaw, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devdutt Padikkal, who have scored four centuries each. Kohli had struck four tons in the 2008/09 season while Gaikwad did it in 2021/22 and Shaw and Padikkal both in 2020/21. Most centuries in Vijay Hazare Trophy • 5* – N Jagadeesan • 4 – Virat Kohli, Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal Jagadeesan surpassed Sri Lanka legend Kumar Sangakkara, South Africa’s Alviro Petersen, and Karnataka player Devdutt Padikkal, all of whom have four centuries on the trot in the history of List A cricket. Most consecutive centuries in List-A • 5* – N Jagadeesan • 4 – Kumar Sangakkara, Alviro Petersen, Devdutt Padikkal Narayan Jagadeesan also broke the record of the highest-even individual score in List-A, held by England’s Alistair Brown who scored 268 runs against Glamorgan in 2002. He also surpassed Indian skipper Rohit Sharma’s record of scoring 264 runs against Sri Lanka. Highest individual List-A score • 277 – N Jagadeesan (Tamil Nadu vs Arunachal Pradesh), 2022 • 268 – Alistair Brown (Surrey vs Glamorgan), 2002 • 264 – Rohit Sharma (India vs Sri Lanka), 2014 • 257 – D’Arcy Short (Western Australia vs Queensland), 2018 • 248 – Shikhar Dhawan (India A vs South Africa A), 2013 Highest partnerships in List A cricket • 416 – N Jagadeesan & Sai Sudarshan (Tamil Nadu vs A...

KKR vs GT: Playing XIs and substitutes Kolkata Knight Riders XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Nitish Rana (c), N Jagadeesan, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakravarthy KKR substitutes: Mandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora, Venkatesh Iyer, David Wiese

The 25-year-old Narayan Jagadeesan is a wicketkeeper and a top-order batsman from Tamil Nadu who has occasionally batted in the middle order and played handy cameos. A strike rate of 125.35 and a batting average of 35.10 in T20 cricket is something very few can boast of and the Coimbatore-born lad is one of them. He might come into the (CSK) XI replacing one of the Indian batters at the top. Career Domestic career Jagadeesan has played all of his domestic cricket for Tamil Nadu age group teams, Tamil Nadu senior team, the Dindigul Dragons in the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) and the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. He made his First Class debut for Tamil Nadu as a 20-year-old in the Ranji Trophy and impressed with an unbeaten century. Since then, Jagadeesan has scored 1174 runs in 23 matches at an average of just under 40 with four centuries and four half-centuries under his belt. He then stepped into List A cricket four months later during a Vijay Hazare Trophy encounter against Uttar Pradesh. Although he scored just 10 runs on debut, he has now scored over 1000 runs in 28 games at an average of 35.96. The youngster has two centuries and five half-centuries in the format at the domestic level. Jagadeesan has been extremely impressive in the shortest format of the game with 702 runs in 35 matches at an average above 35. His four half-centuries have come while opening the innings as well as floating in the middle order whenever his state skipper opened the innings. IPL ca...

Match Bat Wkt Date Ground Format Gillies vs Tiruppur 13 0c/0s 15-Jun-2023 Coimbatore OTHERT20 Gillies vs Spartans 35 1c/0s 13-Jun-2023 Coimbatore OTHERT20 KKR vs Titans 19 0c/0s 29-Apr-2023 Eden Gardens T20 KKR vs RCB 27 0c/0s 26-Apr-2023 Bengaluru T20 KKR vs Super Kings 1 0c/0s 23-Apr-2023 Eden Gardens T20 KKR vs Mumbai 0 -- 16-Apr-2023 Wankhede T20 KKR vs Sunrisers 36 -- 14-Apr-2023 Eden Gardens T20 KKR vs Titans 6 -- 09-Apr-2023 Ahmedabad T20 Tamil Nadu vs Saurashtra 6 & 0 0c/0s & 0c/0s 24-Jan-2023 Chennai FC Tamil Nadu vs Assam 125 0c/0s & 2c/0s 17-Jan-2023 Chennai FC