{"id":198434,"date":"2026-07-29T07:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=198434"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:23:22","slug":"tnpl-2026-kovai-kings-focused-on-building-core-group-after-missing-playoffs-last-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=198434","title":{"rendered":"TNPL 2026 \u2014 Kovai Kings focused on building core group after missing playoffs last season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71281667\">Ahead of the tenth edition of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL), M Shahrukh Khan, the skipper of the two-time champion Kovai Kings, was confident of a good showing this year.<\/p>\n<p>His squad finished sixth last year, failing to qualify for the Playoffs for the first time since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Now under new ownership and rebranded as Vida Kovai Kings, Shahrukh feels the team has all the ingredients to get back to winning ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always want to pick a young team, and we\u2019ve done that this year as well. It\u2019s a new face to the franchise with new owners. We all feel that we have a team which can qualify. After that, it is just one game at a time,\u201d said Shahrukh at the jersey unveiling event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/sooryavanshi-t20-batting-rankings-india-batting-gill-top-spot-update-news\/article71280802.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vaibhav Sooryavanshi climbs 230 places in ICC T20I rankings<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The key to the Kings\u2019 success had been a settled core group of players that helped them win titles in 2022 (shared with Chepuak Super Gillies) and 2023, while finishing runner-up in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Having lost some of its key members at last year\u2019s auction, Shahrukh said the team is focused on building another core group to take the outfit forward with the likes of R.S. Amrbish, who was part of the India under-19 World Cup-winning squad earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it is good to have people from under-19s to come and play. They\u2019ve seen the pressure. They\u2019ve played finals in under-19s. Obviously, this pressure is a bit more than what it is there. But still, these guys respond well to any situation that\u2019s given to them,\u201d Shahrukh remarked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 29, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/kovai-kings-tnpl-2026-tamil-nadu-premier-league-shahrukh-khan-reaction-jersey-launch-cricket-news\/article71281667.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the tenth edition of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL), M Shahrukh Khan, the skipper of the two-time champion Kovai Kings, was confident of a good showing this year. His squad finished sixth last year, failing to qualify for the Playoffs for the first time since 2021. Now under new ownership and rebranded &#8230; <a title=\"TNPL 2026 \u2014 Kovai Kings focused on building core group after missing playoffs last season\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=198434\" aria-label=\"Read more about TNPL 2026 \u2014 Kovai Kings focused on building core group after missing playoffs last season\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Shahrukh20Khan202.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":194183,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194183","url_meta":{"origin":198434,"position":0},"title":"Former India U-19 opener Kalra arrested for alleged bribe attempt in Lanka Premier League","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 17, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A former Indian under-19 cricketer, who is a co-owner of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) franchise Jaffna Kings, was arrested by Sri Lanka\u2019s sports anti-corruption investigators on Friday over allegations of attempting to bribe a player, the police said. 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