In
Mahabharata, the region was referred as Kark Khand due to its location near
Tropic of Cancer. In those days, the region was a part of Magadha and Anga. In Mauryan
period, this region was ruled by a number of states, which were collectively
known as the Atavika (forest) states.
Are you following domestic season; unlikely you recognize this Cricketer !! Sadly the cup of woes is complete for Tamil Nadu, yet another humiliating defeat in Ranji trophy - when will we get to see another Balu Alagannan or S Vaduevan ??
Jharkhand, the 28th state of India was formed on November 15, 2000 after a long standing tribal movement for statehood. Jharkhand was earlier a part of Bihar, precisely it was then South Bihar, a highly mineral rich area with a substantial tribal population. The formation day is the birth anniversary of tribal leader Birsa Munda who fought the British in the 1870s in the Chota Nagpur plateau.
For Tamil Nadu, Ranji trophy title has been a pipe-dream save on two occasions : 1954-55 & 1987-88. They have been runners-up 10 times, the last being 2014-15 season.
At Coimbatore, in Elite Group A match - little over an hour after lunch on Day 4, as Anukul Roy trapped Sandeep Warrier in front, the celebrations in Jharkhand ranks spoke much. In three meetings against Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy, they have won all, including twice this year alone in successive seasons. But none had been as astounding as the one in Coimbatore on Saturday, where they won by an innings & 114 runs to take home seven points.
The scorecard
reads : Tamil
Nadu (fo) 93 & 212; Jharkhand won by an innings and 114 runs. Player Of The Match - Ishan Kishan
Of the handful of Cricketers from Tamil Nadu who have played for India, there have been few pace-bowlers (includes medium pacers) starting with CR Rangachari, KJ Gopalan, the fastest from the State Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekar, Bharat Arun, Robin Singh, Laxmipathi Balaji, T Natarajan. So the team’s reliance on spinners that would include Vaman Kumar, Srinivasan Venkatraghavan, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, WV Raman, M Venkatramana, mercurial GOAT Ravichandran Ashwin & Washington Sundar. There have been players like R Vasudevan who excelled for the State but could not get a chance to play for India.
Looking back, in Apr 1973 when Venkat led side lost to Wadekar’s Bombay in the finals – the new ball attack was Kalyanasundaram and P Mukund. In Mar 92, when we lost to Delhi, it was Diwakar VAsu and Robin Singh. In Mar 2015 when Karnataka humiliated TN by defeating by an innings & 217 runs, new ball was shared by Lakshmipathy Balaji and Prasanth Parameswaran.
Going back
even further there was this Triplicanite – MJ Gopalan, a double-international. Morappakam Josyam Gopalan from the village of Morappakam in Chingleput
district, was discovered by C. P. Johnstone, one of the founding fathers of
Madras cricket. He dismissed Jack Hobbs in both innings in match against
Vizianagaram; in the second he clean bowled the great man with a leg-cutter
that pitched on the leg stump and took the off bail. Against Ceylon in 1933, he
took a famous hattrick, the first in Chepauk.
When Ranji Trophy was inaugurated in 1934,
Madras and Mysore (now Tamil Nadu and Karnataka) played the first match. The very first ball of the tournament was
delivered by legendary MJ Gopalan. His
only Test match was against England at Calcutta in early 1934. In 1935, he
toured New Zealand with the Indian hockey team which enjoyed enormous
success. He missed out Berlin Olympics
whence team captained by Dhyan
Chand, won the gold medal.
At Coimbatore, there were
handful of debutants. Jeganathan Hemchudeshan & Ambarish for TN; Jatin Pandey, Rishav Raj & Shikhar Mohan
for Jharkhand. For J the recognizable player
of Indian ranks was Ishant Kishan. It was in many ways inevitable from the
moment Tamil Nadu let Jharkhand recover from 157/6 on Day 1 and eventually have
419 on board with Ishan Kishan playing a mature knock. The lone India cap
holder, who is deemed not good enough for any format by the national selectors,
is all it took for TN’s best laid plans to hit a wall. Thereafter, the batting
crumbled at the first visibility of pressure, first getting shot out for 93 and
in the second essay showing no signs of any corrective measures. Jharkhand humbled former champions Tamil Nadu
by an innings and 114 runs with young off-spinner Rishav Raj, playing his
maiden first-class match, grabbing four wickets.
Ishan Kishan scored 173; Gurjapneet took 4/71; in TN first - debutant Jatin Pandey took 5/35; Sahil Raj 4/21; in the 2nd – Rishav Raj took 4/499; Anukul Roy 3/42.
Statistically, Jharkhand made their debut in 2004 against Saurashtra and the match was drawn. The Madras cricket team, now known as the Tamil Nadu cricket team, started playing in the Ranji Trophy on November 4, 1934, in the very first match of the inaugural season.
The man at the start is Gurjapneet Singh, aged 25 bowling left arm medium fast, A 6'3" left-arm seamer, was born in Ludhiana (Punjab) and grew up in Ambala (Haryana), Gurjapneet moved to Chennai when he was about 17. Seven years later, on his Ranji Trophy debut against former champions Saurashtra, he bagged 6 for 22, the best figures in a first-class innings by a TN fast bowler at home since 2005-06. Gurjapneet's record haul included the prize scalp of Cheteshwar Pujara for a duck.
Tamil Nadu has the best
system, scores of former players, Coaches – but something wrong with players,
selection and more .. .. sad for the die-hard Tamil Nadu fan.
19.10.2025
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