CHENNAI SUPERKINGS: 2008

IPL 15th Match Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings Full Highlights

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Labels: Chennai Superkings, Indian Premier Leauge, IPL, royall challengers 0 comments

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Hussey's century leads Chennai to victory

Saturday, April 19, 2008 Labels: Chennai Superkings, Indian Premier Leauge, IPL, Mike Hussey, T20 century 0 comments

Mike Hussey cracked the fastest century in Twenty20 cricket history as Chennai Super Kings

pulled off a comfortable 33-run victory over Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League match here today.

Hussey's blistering unbeaten 116 off just 54 balls steered Chennai Super Kings to an imposing 240 for five on a perfect batting strip at the PCA stadium.

The Chennai outfit then restricted the home team to 207 for four to record a win in their opening match which turned out to be a high scoring contest under lights.

It was a virtual carnage at the PCA ground as Hussey plundered runs at will to notch up the second century in the tournament in as many days after Brendon McCullum's 158 in the opening match in Bangalore last night.

Electing to bat, the Chennai team took full advantage of a batting track and short boundaries with sixes and fours raining on a hapless Yuvraj Singh-led home team.

Suresh Raina (32), S Badrinath (31) and Matthew Hayden (25) were the other notable scorers for Chennai Super Kings.

The home team started off well and kept themselves in the hunt till the midway stage of the innings but the dismissal of James Hopes (71) brought Chennai back in the game.

Kumara Sangakkara (54), Karan Goel (24) and captain Yuvraj Singh (23) were the other batsmen who chipped in with some runs for Kings XI.

The highlight of the innings was the explosive strokeplay by Hussey, who hit as many as 10 sixes and seven boundaries to record an amazing strike rate of 211.11. The likes of Brett Lee, S Sreesanth, Irfan Pathan and James Hopes could do nothing to stop the run deluge while the two spinners Piyush Chawla and Karan Goel were little more than cannon fodder.

In fact, Chawla's only over cost 19 runs forcing Yuvraj to take him out of the attack.

However, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the highest paid player in the landmark auction, could manage just two runs before being trapped leg before by Hopes.

But his team-mates made amends for his cheap dismissal with some lusty hitting which helped the team put on a mammoth total.

Faced with a stiff asking rate, Kings XI got off to a decent start with Goel and Hopes putting on 56 runs in the first five overs.

After Goel's dismissal, Hopes and the experienced Kumar Sangakkara kept up the tempo with some big hits but the run rate slowed down a bit after spin wizard Muthiah Muralitharan was introduced into the attack.

Muralithan's experience came handy as he used a lot of variations and gave away just 33 runs in his quota of four overs.

With the required run rate climbing alarmingly after every over, Simon Katich made a valiant effort in the fag end but it was not enough to carry the team to the victory target.

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Hussey blasts fastest T20 century

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Mike Hussey blasted the fastest hundred in Twenty20 history as the Chennai Super Kings rattled up an imposing 240 for five in their first Indian Premier League match against Kings XI Punjab here today.

It was a virtual carnage at the PCA ground as Hussey plundered 116 off 54 balls to record the second century in the tournament in as many days after Brendon McCullum's 158 in the opening match in Bangalore last night.

Electing to bat, the Chennai team took full advantage of a perfect batting strip and short boundaries with sixes and fours raining on a hapless Yuvraj Singh-led home team.

Suresh Raina (32), S Badrinath (31) and Matthew Hayden (25) were the other notable scorers for Chennai Super Kings.

The highlight of the innings was the explosive strokeplay by Hussey, who hit as many as 10 sixes and seven boundaries to record an amazing strike rate of 211.11.

The likes of Brett Lee, S Sreesanth, Irfan Pathan and James Hopes could do nothing to stop the run deluge while the two spinners Piyush Chawla and Karan Goel were little more than cannon fodder.

In fact, Chawla's only over cost 19 runs forcing Yuvraj to take him out of the attack.

However, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the highest paid player in the landmark auction, could manage just two runs before being trapped leg before by Hopes.

But his team-mates made amends for his cheap dismissal with some lusty hitting which helped the team put on a mammoth total.

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Chennai Super Kings win toss, bat first

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Chennai Super Kings skipper M S Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first against Kings XI Punjab in a Indian Premier League Twenty20 encounter at PCA stadium at Mohali today.

Teams:

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (C), Matthew Hayden, Jacob Oram, Mike Hussey, Parthiv Patel, Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Palani Amarnath, Muttiah Muralitharan, Joginder Sharma, Manpreet Goni.

Kings XI Punjab: Karan Goel, James Hopes, Kumar Sangakkara, Yuvraj Singh (C), Simon Katich, Pankaj Dharmani, Irfan Pathan, Brett Lee, Piyush Chawla, Wilkin Mota, S Sreesanth.

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Dhoni to Captain the Chennai Super Kings

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Labels: Captain, Chennai Superkings, Dhoni, IPL 0 comments

On a day of intense bidding at the Indian Premier League player auction at the Hilton Towers in Mumbai, the Chennai Super Kings landed the most prized catch of them all – Indian ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

The Super Kings paid US$1.5 million, the highest bid of the auction and believe he is worth every cent paid! "… for us, a player like that is priceless. He can create ripples with his game, and we can get our team to play around him," VB Chandrasekhar, Cricket Manager for the Chennai Super Kings said.

The absence of an icon player – who, by rule, would have to earn 15 per cent more than the highest-priced player on the team – worked in Chennai’s favour.

Apart from Dhoni, Chennai also procured the services of Sri Lankan spin-wizard Muttiah Muralitharan, Australians opening bat Matthew Hayden and Michael Hussey as well as Kiwis Stephen Fleming and all-rounder Jacob Oram. Two South Africans Albie Morkel and Makhaya Ntini comprise the international component of the Super Kings squad.

Wicket Keeper Batsman, Parthiv Patel who has been in scorching form lately and Joginder Sharma (famed for his last over in the ICC T20 Worldcup finals) and Suresh Raina comprise the Indians picked up in the first round of IPL auctions.

Dhoni’s presence and charismatic leadership of one of the strongest squads in the eight member league, is expected to attract a massive following in cricket mad Chennai. The city looks forward to seeing Chepauk set ablaze by the Super Kings.

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Super Kings Sign Lakshmipathy Balaji

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Lakshmipathy Balaji, who has been sidelined from cricket for nearly a year and a half with a stress fracture of the back, has been signed on by the Chennai Super Kings. The lanky swing bowler has featured in recent TNCA first division matches, bowling short spells.

Chennai Super Kings chief selector VB Chandrasekhar said, while announcing Balaji’s inclusion, "we have pitchforked him in our team as an additional bowler. He has been in action after recovery from injury in the TNCA's first division matches this season."

"Balaji has been effective in two spells of ten overs, though he has not been tried on the trot. He is surely going to be a lethal weapon in our scheme of things in the Twenty 20 IPL matches," he said.

Balaji was last in action during the 2006 Irani Trophy match, and the Challenger series that followed. His last game for India came in 2005, during the Indian Oil Cup in Sri Lanka.

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Kepler Wessels to coach Chennai Super Kings

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Kepler Wessels has transcended boundaries all of his life for the sake of cricket, and his next destination is the city of Chennai, where he has been appointed the coach of the Chennai Super Kings.

Born in South Africa, Wessels grew up in the apartheid era, when the Proteas were banned from international cricket. He moved to Australia and settled there, representing Queensland in the domestic Sheffield Shield competition. He graduated to play for Australia a few years later, and cracked a typically gritty century on his test debut against England. He played an important role in the Australian top order during the early eighties, but after a disappointing series against New Zealand, he quit and moved back to South Africa to play domestic cricket for Orange Free State. He then became the first test captain of South Africa in the post-apartheid era, and led his team diligently and intelligently for a couple of years before finally hanging up his boots from international cricket, once and for all. He also played county cricket for Sussex.

He next took to coaching, and became a hugely successful coach with Eastern Province. He also ran a host of coaching clinics for youngsters all around South Africa. Wessels then went to England and coached Northamptonshire for a couple of seasons, where he again met with resounding success.

“We wanted somebody who would keep the focus on cricket, be a good task master, and help us win the tournament,” said Chennai Super Kings Cricket Manager, V B Chandrasekhar. Wessels is widely acknowledged in the cricketing circles as a man who lives and breathes cricket, who at the same time, enjoys spending time away from it in his various pastimes like martial arts. He is known to be a good man-manager, and he has the experience of playing all around the globe and managing players from different cultures. He is also known to bring his gritty demeanour, which helped him succeed as a cricketer, into his coaching, while being an easily approachable person.

Makhaya Ntini, and Albie Morkel are the two South Africans who will be playing for the Chennai Super Kings, and they will be more than happy to have Wessels as their coach. Ntini who has always spoken highly of Wessels, will have the privilege of teaming up with Wessels and work towards the team’s success.

“This tournament is going to change the face of cricket worldwide,” Wessels said from Chittagong, Bangladesh on hearing about his appointment. “Every team is strong and you have to manage the process quite well because not all the players are available all of the time. And you can only play four overseas players at once,” he added, extremely excited about his new assignment.

Wessels gets the opportunity to coach one of the strongest teams in the IPL line-up with a winning captain in Dhoni and stars like Hayden and Muralitharan in the mix. So Kepler’s cricketing journey continues to cross new barriers, as Chennai prepares to welcome the man they hope will to coach them to glory!

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Vijay - Nayantara are ambassadors of IPL Chennai Superkings

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Labels: Chennai Superkings, IPL 0 comments

Chennai, Mar 18 : India Cements, the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchisee for Chennai, on Tuesday announced that it has signed up Tamil cinestars Vijay and Nayanthara as brand ambassadors for the team Chennai Superkings.

India Cements executive president T S Raghupathy and former cricketer K. Srikkanth said that Vijay and Nayanthara would endorse Chennai Super Kings, appear on hoardings and IPL television advertisements, and also cheer captain M S Dhoni and his team.

“The idea of bringing star ambassadors like Vijay and Nayanthara is to popularise the team and get more members for Chennai Super Kings. We will have a lot of support
for Chennai Super Kings," Srikkanth said.

Vijay and Nayanthara who will lend the touch of glamour to the Chennai team are stars riding a wave and are extremely popular in south India.

India Cements Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) President and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Treasurer N
Srinivasan, the franchisee owner of Chennai Super Kings has pulled off a coup by getting two of the hottest stars in south to endorse for them.

Indian pacer L. Balaji who last played for India Red at Chennai in 2006 has also been included as an additional bowler in the Chennai Super Kings team.

The first match will be held on April 23 in Chennai followed by one each in Mohali, Kolkata and Mumbai.

The Chennai IPL team led by Dhoni also has S. Badrinatrh, R. Ashwin, Vidyuth Sivaramakrishnan, Anirudh Srikkanth from Tamil Nadu.

Apart from skipper M. S. Dhoni, the Chennai Super Kings have roped in top cricketing stars Mathew Hayden, Stephen Fleming, Jacob Oram, Michael Hussey, Albie Morkel, Muthiah Muralitharan and Makhaya Ntini. (ANI)

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Chennai Super Kings : Players

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Chennai Super Kings

Players

Chennai Super Kings are one of the three franchises with no icon player. The lack of an icon player benefited the Super Kings during the bidding as they managed to bid successfully on two (Dhoni & Muralitharan) of the six A listed players.

The team plans to have twenty three players on its roster. ^[4] Besides the list of players already acquired, the team will pick the remaining members from the three catchment areas - Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Railways - that have been allocated to it. ^[5]

[edit] Current Squad

No	Name	Age	Playing role	Batting Style	Bowling/Fielding	Bidding Price
1	MS Dhoni (Captain)	26	Batsman/WK	RHB	WK	US$ 1,500,000
2	Muttiah Muralitharan	35	Bowler	RHB	Right Arm Spin	US$ 600,000
3	Matthew Hayden	36	Batsman	LHB	Right Arm Medium Fast	US$ 375,000
4	Jacob Oram	28	All Rounder	LHB	Right Arm Medium Fast	US$ 675,000
5	Stephen Fleming	35	Batsman	LHB	Right Arm Medium Fast	US$ 350,000
6	Parthiv Patel	22	Batsman/WK	LHB	WK	US$ 325,000
7	Albie Morkel	28	All Rounder	LHB	Right Arm Fast	US$ 675,000
8	Joginder Sharma	24	Bowler	RHB	Right Arm Medium Fast	US$ 225,000
9	Suresh Raina	21	Batsman	LHB	Right Arm Spin	US$ 650,000
10	Makhaya Ntini	30	Bowler	RHB	Right Arm Fast	US$ 200,000
11	Michael Hussey	32	Batsman	LHB	Right Arm Medium Fast	US$ 350,000
12	Ashwin R	21	Bowler	RHB	Right Arm Spin	Under 22 Player
13	Anirudha Srikkanth	21	Batsman	RHB	-	Under 22 Player
14	Sudeep Tyagi	20	Bowler	RHB	Right Arm Medium Fast	Under 22 Player
15	Subramaniam Badrinath	28	Batsman	RHB	Right Arm Spin
16	Shadab Jakati	27	All Rounder	LHB	Left Arm Spin
17	Napoleon Einstein	18	Batsman	RHB	Right Arm Spin	Under 19 Player
18	Abhinav Mukund	18	All Rounder	LHB	Left Arm Spin	Under 19 Player
19	Viraj Kadbe	18	All Rounder	RHB	Right Arm Spin	Under 19 Player