TNPL 2025: Match 16, SMP vs NRK Match Prediction: Who will win today's Match?

SMP vs NRK Match Preview:

The match number 16 of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) 2025 will be played between Siechem Madurai Panthers (SMP) and Nellai Royal Kings (NRK). The match will be played at SCF Cricket Stadium in Salem on June 18. NRK are currently at the sixth spot in the points table with just one win and two losses in their three matches of the season so far. Their net run rate is also in minus and NRK will be looking to get a massive win over SMP to get ahead in the points table.

On the other hand, Nellai are currently in the top four with two wins and one loss in their three matches of the season so far. Looking at their net run rate, NRK have a chance to jump to top-two with a big win over Madurai in the upcoming clash. Let’s have a look at today’s cricket match prediction, pitch report, head-to-head and key players ahead of the 16th match of TNPL 2025 between Siechem Madurai Panthers and Nellai Royal Kings.

SMP vs NRK Match Details

Match	Siechem Madurai Panthers vs Nellai Royal Kings
Venue	SCF Cricket Ground, Salem
Date & Time	Tuesday, June 18, 7:15 PM (IST)
Live Broadcast & Streaming Details	FanCode (app and website) and Star Sports Network

SMP vs NRK Pitch Report

pitch report tnpl

The SCF (Salem Cricket Foundation) Cricket ground in Salem has a reputation to help the bowlers and the team winning the toss is likely to prefer to bowl first and chase a target. Out of 31 T20 matches played at this ground, the team batting first won 11 times while the chasing side came out victorious on 20 occasions.

SMP vs NRK Head-to-Head Stats and Records

Till now, there are five matches which took place between Siechem Madurai Panthers and Nellai Royals Kings in the history of the TNPL so far. Out of these five matches, NRK won three times while SMP are yet to win a game against them as two matches ended in no result.

Matches played	5
Siechem Madurai Panthers won	0
Nellai Royal Kings won	3
No result	2

SMP vs NRK Weather Report

weather report tnpl

SMP vs NRK Probable Playing XIs

SMP vs NRK TNPL 2025 Full squads

Siechem Madurai Panthers: Ram Arvindh, Balchander Anirudh, NS Chaturved (c), Atheeq Ur Rahman, C Sarath Kumar, S Ganesh (wk), P Saravanan, Murugan Ashwin, S Rajalingam, P Vignesh, Gurjapneet Singh, Surya Anand S, Karthik Meiyappan, J Ajay Chetan, Shankar Ganesh, S Shyam Sundar, Gowtham Thamarai Kannan, Sanjeev Kumar, Deepesh Devendran

Nellai Royal Kings: Arun Karthik (c), Ajitesh Guruswamy, Rithik Easwaran (wk), PS Nirmal Kumar, NS Harish, Sonu Yadav, Muhammed Adnan Khan, Sachin Rathi, Valliappan Yudheeswaran, Emmanuel Cherian, Rocky Bhasker, D Santhosh Kumar, Athish SR, Ajay Krishna, J Rohan, S Risheek Kumar, Uday Kumar M, S Vijay Kumar, Karan Sampat, selvaganapathi S, Arun Yoghi

SMP vs NRK Predicted Top Batters

D Santhosh Kumar: Santosh Kumar is currently the leading run scorer for Nellai Royal Kings in the ongoing TNPL season so far. He scored a match-winning 73(36) runs in the last game against Salem Spartans and looked a great touch with his fiery batting striking with the rate of over 200. The opening batters has amassed 128 runs from three matches in TNPL 2025 so far at an average of 42.66 and a strike rate of 162.02.

SMP vs NRK Predicted Top Bowlers

Murugan Ashwin: Siechem Madurai Panthers leg spinner Murugan Ashwin will be looking to trap Nellai Royal Kings bater under his googly in the upcoming TNPL clash and can turn out to be a key player for his team. Although, Ashwin has picked three wickets in three matches, he maintains an impressive economy rate of 7.18.