Chepauk Super Gillies


Chepauk Super Gillies is a cricket team representing Chennai city in the Tamil Nadu Premier League. The team is owned by Metronation Chennai Television Private Limited. Chepauk Super Gillies were crowned Tamil Nadu Premier League champions of the second season after they beat TUTI Patriots in the final by six wickets in Chennai. In 2019, they won the final against Dindigul Dragons to clinch the championship trophy again. This made them the most successful franchise of the TNPL.

Franchise History

Metronation Chennai Television Pvt. Ltd bought the Chennai team & Hemang Badani was announced as the Coach of the side ahead of the TNPL Draft in 2016, he added "I will be part of the South Chennai franchise for the first edition of TNPL. I am excited to be part of the tournament which will be played in a format that’s got the fans hooked and hope my association with the franchise will be fruitful.
The Metronation Television Chennai Pvt. Ltd. announced the name of its Tamil Nadu Premier League franchise and unveiled the logo. The team, ‘Chepauk Super Gillies’, & tagline ‘ Pattaya Kelappu’, and its logo comprises a helmet, two bails, and a lighthouse. The team name and logo were picked from a fan contest. Team owner Sivanthi Adityan said: "Across the world, the success and popularity of any sports team largely depends on its fan following and loyalty. That’s why we decided to engage them via a contest, and the response was overwhelming."
Tamil Nadu Premier League team Chepauk Super Gillies unveiled their jersey, logo and anthem at a glittering ceremony. A galaxy of stars from the cricketing world and the tinsel town graced the occasion. Mohammed Azharuddin, Irfan Pathan, Ashish Nehra and Zaheer Khan were the guests of honour. Former India skipper Azharuddin said the league would benefit Tamil Nadu players. "The players from the rural areas get a great opportunity to get into the limelight through this league. The Chepauk team is a young side and I am sure that they would do well in the league," Azharuddin added.
Former India pacer Zaheer Khan said being in Chennai brought a lot of good memories as he started his career here. "I congratulate the TNCA for initiating a league like this. I hope this becomes a huge success," he said.

Team History

TNPL Season 1 (2016)

The Chennai-based side which enjoyed the humongous support of the iconic MA Chidambaram Stadium. The side called upon the hugely experienced Hemang Badani as coach while R Sathish as the skipper.
Players: R Sathish, Yo Mahesh, Thalaivan Sargunam, Anthony Dhas, Gopinath, Sai Kishore, Sasidev, Joel Joseph, Tamil Kumaran, Alaxander R, Vasanth Saravanan S, Rahul B, Ashwath Mukunthan, Karthik S, Rajeel Abdul Rahman, Nirmal Kumar, Vasudevan, Aditya Barooah, Shibi Jawahar.
Tuti Patriots were crowned champions of the inaugural Tamil Nadu Premier League when they beat Chepauk Super Gillies by a whopping 122 runs in a dominating final at the M A Chidambaram Stadium here on Sunday.
The league came a full circle as the teams that played the first match played the last match too and the result, too, was the same with Tuti Patriots emerging supreme.
Things went completely wrong for Rajagopal Sathish's men from the start as the skipper was on the wrong side of the coin. Dinesh Karthik didn't have any qualms in batting first and Gillies woes started.
Chepauk Super Gillies were sent on a leather hunt from the word go as Tuti openers Abhinav Mukund and Kaushik Gandhi made merry. Dinesh Karthik added a boisterous finishing touch scoring a quick-fire 55 in 26 balls to propel Patriots to 215/2 in 20 overs.
Chasing 216, Patriots spinner M Ganesh Moorthi then sealed the match in the first over with a hat-trick when he sent X Thalaivan Sargunam, K H Gopinath, Sathish and Sasidev in the space of six balls, with the last three in as many balls. Chepauk Super Gillies could only manage 93 in 18.5 overs. Moorthi was named the man-of-the-match.
The match went into the record books for the highest team score, highest opening partnership at Chepauk, most wickets in an over and the lowest team total.
The slide started when Thalaivan came down the track off the second ball only to loft the ball over wide mid-off for Anand Subramaniam to take a sensational catch running backwards. Gopinath was the next to go when he cut the ball straight to the point fielder while Sathish misjudged the spin to be caught out plumb in front of the next ball. Sasidev couldn't prevent the hat-trick when he got an outside edge for L Balaji to take a neat catch at first slip.
S Vasanth Saravanan and Yo Mahesh tried to resurrect the innings with a 33-run partnership for the fifth wicket but Chepauk never recovered from Moorthi's blows.
Balaji removed Yo Mahesh as a steady drizzle forced the players indoors for a brief while. Aushik Srinivas took a neat low catch at mid-off to send J Gowjith Subash back and once Saravanan's timber was rocked by Balaji for 30, the curtains came down on Chepauk Super Gillies.
A steady drizzle only delayed the inevitable for a few minutes as Gillies were bundled out for 93 in the 19th over.
Earlier, Mukund, who started from where left off in the first semi-final at Tirunelveli, made his intent clear when he took Ashwath Mukundhan to the cleaners in the bowler's second over scoring 18 runs.
Gandhi, who started off playing the perfect second fiddle, started accelerating as Patriots found the boundaries with ease. A rollicking drive in the extra cover region off Mahesh set things up for the right-hander as he got into the groove easily.
At the half-way stage, Patriots were looking for a huge score by scoring at more than nine runs an over. The openers got to their half-centuries soon after and Mukund started to cut loose. He sent left-arm spinners R Alexander and R Sai Kishore out of the park in consecutive overs as Cheapuk Super Gillies ran out of ideas to keep the Patriots batsmen quiet.
Kishore broke the 132-run partnership in the 14th over when Gandhi mistimed a sweep to square-leg where Saravanan took an easy catch.
The breakthrough brought more sorrow for Super Gillies as Dinesh Karthik joined Mukund and they went on a rampage by scoring 82 in 37 balls, with Karthik scoring 55 of them in 26 balls.
Karthik found the ropes with ease in a 360-degree fashion by picking up a boundary and a six almost every over as the Patriots crossed the 200-run mark at the end of the penultimate over.
Karthik was run out in the second last ball, leaving Mukund stranded short of another well-deserved century as Patriots ended at 215.

TNPL Season 2 (2017)

With largely the same squad that got to the final last time around, veteran Rajagopal Sathish will be hoping to take his side one step further this time around.
Squad: Rajagopal Sathish, Yo Mahesh, Thalaivan Sargunam, Antony Dhas, Gopinath, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Uthirasamy Sasidev, Joel Joseph, Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran, R Alexander, Sathiamoorty Saravanan, Baskaran Rahul, Ashwath Mukumthan, S Karthik, Aditya Barooah, Jothimani Gowjith Subhash, Arun Kumar, Rangaraj Suthesh, S Radhakrishnan.
Five was the magic number for Chepauk Super Gillies as they beat Albert TuTi Patriots by six wickets in the final of the second edition of the Tamil Nadu Premier League in Chennai. Chasing 144 for victory, Super Gillies were stuttering and stumbling towards the finish line before captain R Satish and Vasanth Saravanan stitched an unbeaten 52-run partnership for the fifth wicket to take them home.
Before the start of the final, Super Gillies had lost four games in a row against TuTi Patriots, who were on a 13-game unbeaten run in the tournament. But history was rewritten at the MA Chidambaram Stadium where Chepauk finally beat TuTi in their fifth attempt.

TNPL Season 3 (2018)

Vijay Shankar will don Chepauk Super Gillies' colours after he was snapped up by the reigning champions in an exciting Player draft for the third edition of the Tamil Nadu Premier League.

Current Squad

Kaushik Gandhi,
Alexandar,
Sasidev,
Jagadeesan N,
Harish Kumar S,
Satish R,
Siddharth M,
Jaganath Srinivas RS,
Sujay S,
Prashid Akash,
Arun B,
Ram Arvindh R,
Rahul B,
Arun Kumar V,
Sai Prakash V,
Vijay Kumar S,
D Rahul,
Santhana Sekar V,
Ajith Kumar R,
Vikkram Jangid.

Support Staffs

Coach : Hemang Badani
Assistant Coach : Avinash
Assistant Coach : Sai Rupesh
High Performance Analyst : Lakshmi Narayanan
Trainer : Danasekar Pandiyan
Physio : Karthikdasan
Masseur : Jignesh
Team Manager : Saravanan
Media Manager : Karthikeyan S

Statistics

Highest Wicket-Taker of the Tournament - Sai Kishore
Most Energetic Player of the Tournament - Sasidev
Most Runs for Chepauk Super Gillies in TNPL 2016 - K H Gopinath
Most Runs for Chepauk Super Gillies in TNPL 2017 - K H Gopinath

Achievements