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December 15, 2021 - Left-arm pacer Thangarasu Natarajan, who made his India debut across all formats in the tour of Australia last year, has announced the setting up of a new cricket ground in his village with all facilities. He also revealed the name of the ground, which will be the 'Natarajan Cricket Ground'.
Hailing from Chinnappampatti, a village near Salem in Tamil Nadu, Natarajan’s rise to fame from an extremely humble background was one of the heartwarming cricketing tales of 2020."He's played for India and reached a higher level, but he never forgets his roots," Moorthy says. "When he was a kid, he used to get me blades for cutting [hair], and spent time at the salon. When Virat Kohli handed him the T20I series trophy in Australia and Hardik Pandya gave his Player-of-the-Series trophy to Natarajan, the village celebrated by bursting firecrackers for five hours. That was our Diwali day.
| Formats | Matches | Innings | Wickets | Economy | Average |
| Test | 1 | 2 | 3/78 | 3.1 | 39.67 |
| ODI | 2 | 2 | 2/70 | 7.15 | 47.67 |
| T20 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 8.88 | 29.71 |