The three-time IPL series winners, Chennai Super Kings made a strong account after being disqualified from the tournament for two years following the 2013 spot-fixing scandal. MS Dhoni-led team made great achievement and due to MS Dhoni captaincy, he led his team to three victories since 2008.
The team has great potential to win this year tournament too as not even a two-year ban stopped them for being getting the success. Let’s talk about Chennai Super Kings major information from its squads to their schedule and performances and even much more.
About Chennai Super Kings
The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is a franchise Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The team was founded in 2008 and it plays its home matches at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
The team also suffered a two-year suspension from the IPL that is in the year 2016 and 2017 starting from July 2015 for the alleged participation of their owners in the 2013 IPL betting case along with Rajasthan Royals.
After serving the two-year suspension from IPL, Chennai Super Kings made a great return as winning the championship trophy of 2018 IPL tournament.
Chennai Super Kings is a three-time winner of IPL overall series till date and also have the best win percentage between all teams in the IPL that is, 61.56%.
Chennai Super Kings Full Squad:
MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Monu Kumar, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Billings, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Mohit Sharma, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur
Chennai Super Kings Management and Support Staff
Owner: Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd, N. Srinivasan
Head Coach: Stephen Fleming
Batting coach: Michael Hussey
Bowling coach: Lakshmipathy Balaji
Bowling consultant: Eric Simons
Team Doctor: Dr.Madhu
Physio: Tommy Simsek
Fielding coach: Rajiv Kumar
Physical trainer: Gregory King
Logistics Manager: Sanjay Natarajan
Team manager: Russell Radhakrishnan
High Performance analyst: Lakshmi Narayanan
CSK Strong Points and Game Changers Players
CSK’s batting department is unquestionably one of the best in the overall competition. However the team has two quality openers such as Shane Watson and Murali Vijay. In fact the plus point for the team is that these both players are not in debate to play the World Cup, so they have mainly focused on this year IPL tournament and this may possibly work in the team’s favour.
CSK’s game changer players from batting line up are Suresh Raina, Dhoni, Jadeja and Jadhav and the All-rounder Bravo who is considered to be one of the most dangerous finishers in the competition.
CSK IPL Seasons Performance Summary
| Year | Indian Premier League |
| 2008 | Runners-up |
| 2009 | Playoffs (2nd/8) |
| 2010 | Champions |
| 2011 | Champions |
| 2012 | Runners-up |
| 2013 | Runners-up |
| 2014 | Playoffs (3rd/8) |
| 2015 | Runners-up |
| 2016 | Suspended |
| 2017 | Suspended |
| 2018 | Champions |
CSK schedule in IPL 2019:
Match 1:
Teams: Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Date: 23 March 2019 (Saturday)
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Match 2:
Teams: Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings
Date: 26 March 2019 (Tuesday)
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Match 3:
Teams: Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals
Date: 31st March 2019 (Sunday)
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Match 4:
Teams: Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
Date: 3 April 2019 (Wednesday)
Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
