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T.J. Srinivasaraj was elected unopposed arsenic the President of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) for a three-year word (2025-28) successful the General Elections conducted astatine the M.A. Chidambaram stadium present connected Sunday.
Srinivasaraj is the Managing Director of Freight Consol International Pvt Ltd, and Freyer International Logistics Pvt Ltd, which supports 5 teams successful the TNCA league (two successful the archetypal part - Nelson SC and Sea Hawks CC). Freyer has besides been sponsoring TNCA’s women’s challengers (one-day and T20) competitions since 2022.
M. Kumaresh and R. Rangarajan were besides elected unopposed arsenic the Vice-President and Treasurer, respectively.
In the contested positions, erstwhile Apex Council subordinate U. Bhagwandas Rao was elected Secretary, defeating S. Prabhu. K. Sriram prevailed implicit A.S. Rangarajan to unafraid the station of Joint Secretary, portion C. Mareeswaran overcame Kalidas Vandiyar and K.S. Srinivasan to beryllium elected Assistant Secretary.
Addressing the media, Srinivasaraj stated that determination is “abundant endowment successful the districts” and added that his medication “wants to bring that endowment out.”
He said that the Chepauk ground, which has been getting a makeover for the 2026 T20 World Cup, “will beryllium acceptable successful 30 to 40 days.”
He further said that the recently inaugurated Velammal cricket stadium successful Madurai, developed by the Velammal Educational Group, and the stadium being developed by the State authorities successful Coimbatore don’t person the anticipation of hosting planetary matches “for now.”
Asked if the Madurai stadium volition get to big the TNPL matches, helium said: “That is inactive successful consideration. We person not decided yet. We person to clasp talks.” He stated that neither crushed is tied up with the TNCA yet.
The office-bearers: T.J. Srinivasaraj (President), M. Kumaresh (Vice-President), U. Bhagwandas Rao (Secretary), C. Mareeswaran (Asst. Secretary), K. Sriram (Jt. Secretary), R. Rangarajan (Treasurer).
Apex Council: Districts: A. Jaffer Asique Ali, J. Divakar, P. Parameswaran; City: R. Krishna; G. Manikandan; P.S. Rajan; Sanjay Kumbhat; S. Selvamani; N.S. Shankar.
TNPL Governing Council nominees: S. Balakrishna, Yusuf Y. Laila.
