TNPL 2023 Auction: Teams, Squad, Sold and Unsold Player List

The two-day auction for the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) has over. In advance of the league's seventh season, 942 players participated in the league's first-ever player auction. The auction was held at Chennai's Mahabalipuram city.Players were divided into four categories for the auction, with Category A consisting of Tamil Nadu players who have participated in international competitions (INR 10 lakh), Category B consisting of senior BCCI domestic match participants (INR 6 lakh), Category C consisting of players who are not in Categories A or B but have participated in more than 30 TNPL matches (INR 3 lakh), and Category D consisting of other players (INR 1.50 lakh). Each franchise had to submit a total offer of INR 70 lakh, and clubs could only keep a maximum of two players—one from category A or B and the other from category C or D—while maintaining a squad size of at least 16 and a maximum of 20.

Here is the list of players retained by each franchise prior to the auction:

• Chepauk Super Gillies: N Jagadeesan (B), Sasidev (C)
• Nellai Royal Kings: Ajitesh (B), Karthik Manikandan (D)
• Idream Tirupur Tamizhans: Tushar Raheja (D)
• Lyka Kovai Kings: Shahrukh Khan (B), Suresh Kumar (D) 
• Dindigul Dragons: Ravichandran Ashwin (A)
• Ruby Trichy Warriors: Anthony Das (B)
• Salem Spartans: Ganesh Murthy (C)
• Madurai Panthers: Gautham (D)

Teams and squads:

Chepauk Super Gillies: Sanjay Yadav, Harish Kumar, Baba Aparajith, N. Jagadeesan, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, R. Satish, U. Sasidev, R. Rohit, M. Silambarasan, Rahil Shah, R. Sibi, S. Kumar, Santosh Shiv S, TD Lokesh Raj, B. Rocky, and Ayyappan are the members of the Chepauk Super Club.

Salem Spartans: Akash Sumra, S Aravind, S Abhishek, Gowri Shankar, Guru Sayee, Selvakumar, Yuvaraj V, Karthikeyan, and Mokit Hariharan. Sachin Rathi, Amith Sathvik, R Kavin, Ganesh Murthi, Jagannath Sinivas, Maan K. Bafna, Mokit Hariharan.

Lyca Kovai Kings: Sai Sudharsan, M. Mohammed, Kiran Akash, Shah Rukh Khan, M. Siddharth, U. Mukilesh, Suresh Kumar, Gowtham Thamarai Kannan, R. Divakar, P. Vidyuth, J. Subramaniam, B. Sachin, Yudheeswaran, Hemcharan, S. Sujay, and KM Om Prakash.

Dindigul Dragons: VP Diran, Tamil Dhilleepan, Advaith Sharma, Rohan Ravi Bhutra, C Sarath Kumar, S Arun, P Vignesh, Saravana Kumar, Baba Indrajith, Boopathi Vaishna Kumar, R Vimal Kumar, Mathivanan, G. Hemant Kumar, and G. Kishoor.

Nellai Royal Kings: Sonu Yadav, Arun Karthik, Sandeep Warrier, Ajitesh, Rithik Easwaran, Mohan Prasath, Nidhish Rajagopal, Aswin Crist, L Suryaprakash, M Poiyamozhi, Sri Neranjan, Karthik Manikandan, R Mithun, NS Harish, N Kabilan, Emmanuel Cherian.

Ruby Trichy Warriors: Natarajan, Anthony Das, Ganga Sridhar Raju, Silambarasan, R. Rajkumar, Athisayaraj Davidso, Daryl Ferrario, Akshay Srinivasan, Shajahan, Monish Satish, R. Alexander, Jafar Jamal, K. Easwaran, Francis Rokins, G. Godson, Karthick Shanmugam, SP. Vinod.

Madurai Panthers: Hari Nishaanth, Swapnil Singh, J. Koushik, Washington Sundar, Murugan Ashwin, B. Surya, Shijit Chandran, Gurjapneet Singh, Deeban Lingesh, S. Karthik, Ajay Krishnan, Gautham, P. Saravana, Sri. Abishek, Aaditya V., Anton Andrew, Krish Jain, D. Rahul, D. Sudhan.

Tirupur Tamizhans: Mohamad Ali, Sai Kishore, Vijay Shankar, NS Chaturved, R Vivek, Vishal Vaidhya, G Periyasamy, Anirudh Sitaram, Ajith Ram, Trilok Nag, Tushar Raheja, Radhakrishnan, S Ganesh, Tushar Raheja, I Vetrivel, and P Bhuvanesh.