Tamil Nadu Cricket Association

Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) is the governing body of the Cricket activities in the Tamil Nadu state of India and the Tamil Nadu cricket team. It is affiliated to the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

Tamil Nadu Cricket Association affiliated to the Board of control for cricket in India is the parent body or governing the game of Cricket in Tamil Nadu, and involved in the conduct of the game from the grass root level to the International level.

The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association promotes and develops Cricket by conducting various League Tournaments,Tournaments for the age group Under-13, Under-15, Under-17, and Under-19, Under-22 and Under-25 categories besides organising and conducting National Tournaments. The Association conducts SPIC-TNCA League Championship for City affiliated Clubs and 726 league matches are played a year from First division to Fifth division. A zone consisting of 12 teams each figure in the first and second divisions, whereas third, fourth and fifth division consists of two, three and four zones respectively. The city league format is one of the best in the country especially in first division where league matches are played on a three day duration as per the Ranji Trophy guidelines.

Corporate sponsorship alone in the first division runs to over Rs.6 crores towards players allowances, cricket equipments, ground maintenance etc. besides participation in outstation tournaments.

The are also 28 affiliated District Cricket Associations in Tamil Nadu. There are 780 participating clubs in the districts where tournaments are also conducted for different age categories. Free balls and mats are supplied by TNCA to the Districts every year.

The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association is all set to celebrate its Platinum Jubilee (75th year) this year.

The website of the association is www.tnca.in and it has been developed by Coromandel Infotech India Limited.

Office Bearers for the year 2006-07

PRESIDENT

Shri N. Srinivasan VICE-PRESIDENTS

Shri U. Prabhakar RaoShri K.V. AiyappanDr. K. RadhakrishnanShri J. Sam BabuShri N.R. ManivannanShri Victor Fernandez HON.SECRETARY

Shri C.R. Vijayaraghavan HON.JOINT SECRETARY

Dr.G. Natarajan HON.ASSISTANT SECRETARY

Shri K.S. Viswanathan HON.TREASURER

Shri S. Ganesan MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Shri K.SriramShri R.V. RadhakrishnanShri M.K. Vinod KumarShri K. MuraliShri V.P. NarasimhanShri K.L. BalajeeShri R.I. PalaniShri K.A. ShankarShri P.S. RamanShri A.Sathees KumarShri S. SurendranShri P.R. RamakrishnanDr. R.N. BabaShri S. Sankar SPL.INVITEES

Shri L. Raj KumarShri A. Sankarakrishnan

External links

* [http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/NATIONAL/IND/FC_TEAMS/TN Tamil Nadu at Cricinfo.com]
* [http://tnca.in/ The TNCA Homepage]