Chennai Super Kings
Owned by the India Cement Company, this Franchise cost $91m and is based in Chennai in India. Head Coach is former South African batsman. Kepler Wessels and they are captained by current Indian captain MS Dhoni. They are currently ranked first in the IPL rankings
Chennai SuperKings finished third in the IPL standings in the inaugural 2008 season, thus qualifying for the knock out stages. In the semi final they beat the Kings Xl Punjab but were beaten by just one run in the final by Rajasthan Royals. In 2009 they finished second in the League but failed to get past the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the semi final.
Players
The following players are currently contracted with the Chennai Super Kings.
- MS Dhoni - Captain (also India)
- M Muralitharan (also Sri Lanka)
- M Hayden
- J Oram (also New Zealand)
- S Fleming
- A Flintoff (also England and Lancashire Lightning)
- P Patel
- A Morkel (also S Africa)
- J Sharma
- S Raina
- M Ntini (also S Africa)
- M Hussey (also Australia)
- R Ashwin
- S Badrinath
- VV Kadbe
- P Armanath
- M Gony
- S Amirudha
- L Balaji
- N Einstein
- S Jakati
- A Karthik
- S Kumar
- A Mukund
- V Silvaramakrishnan
