Chennai Super Kings - Profile

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS (CSK)

Chennai Super Kings is one of the most successful francise in the Indian Premier League. CSK have qualified for the knock-out stages of the IPL in all the editions, has been in the finals in 4 times and has won the championship twice. This Chennai based outfit is lead by MS Dhoni and their home ground M.A. Chidhambaram Stadium has been a fortress.

CSK has qualified for Champions League T20 Tournament thrice and has won the championship in 2010 edition in South Africa.

CSK TEAM INFO
YEAR FOUNDED	2008
OWNERS	India Cements
COACH	Stephen Fleming
CAPTAIN	Mahendra Singh Dhoni
BOWLING COACH	Andy Bichel
FIELDING COACH	Steve Rixon
MANAGER	Russel Radha Krishnan
PHYSIOTHERAPIST	Tom Simsek
FITNESS/TRAINING COACH	Gregory King
IPL CHAMPIONSHIPS	2 (2010, 2011)

2013 CSK SQUAD

BATSMAN	ALL-ROUNDERS	BOWLERS	WICKET-KEEPERS
Murali Vijay	Albie Morkel	R Ashwin	M SDhoni
Faf Du Plessis	Dwayne Bravo	Ben Hilfenhaus	Wriddhiman Saha
Micheal Hussey	Ravindra Jadeja	Dirk Nannes
Suresh Raina	Chris Morris	Nuwan Kulasekara
S Badrinath	Akila Dananjaya	Ben Laughling
Srikkanth Anirudha	Vijay Prakash	Shajab Jakati
Baba Aparajith		Jason Holder
		Imtiaz Ahmed
		R Karthikeyan
		Ronit More
		Mohit Sharma
		Ankit Rajpoot

IPL STATS

CSK IN IPL SO FAR 82 MATCHES

47 WINS 33 LOSS HIGHEST TOTAL (246/5 VS RR 2011) LOWEST TOTAL (109/10 VS RR 2008) LEADING RUN GETTER SURESH RAINA (2254 RUNS) LEADING WICKET TAKER ALBIE MORKEL (69 WICKETS) BEST INVIDUAL SCORE MURALI VIJAY (127 VS RR 2010) BEST BOWLING FIGURE RAVINDRA JAJEJA(5/16 VS DC)

CSK HOME GROUND

M.A Chidambaram Stadium - Chennai

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Oz Axe Quartet for Disobeying Team Orders

Australia tour of India is in total disarray after the axing of 4 players from the squad for third test against India at Mohali. The Quartet includes vice-captain Shane Watson, impressive quicky James Pattinson , Mitchell Johnson and Usman Khawaja. 

Mickey Authur requested his players to submit a presentation on how to improve the performance in the upcoming tests against team India. But these four players failed to submit their presentation and were excluded from the team after a meeting with the captain and team management.

Mickey Arthur said "After Hyderabad the whole team was really hurting, we were discussing ways of getting back into the series,"

 "We were particularly aware of where we were as a team and how we were going to get back. I asked the players at the end of the game to give me an individual presentation.

"I wanted three points from each of them technically, mentally and team as to how we were going to get back over the next couple of games, how we were going to get ourselves back into the series,"

"I believe those four players unfortunately did not meet my requirements so those four are not available for selection for this Test match," Authur added.

Pacer James Pattinson was the best Australian in the bowling department the first two tests will be solely missed in Mohali wicket which assists quick bowlers. Khawaja was also in line to make it to the starting line-up after dismal performance by Phil Hughes.

All-rounder Watson flew to Sydney after the omission from the squad. The team management refused the statement stating "He has not left in a huff; his wife is expecting and that is why he has left for Australia, to be by her side.

“The two things (returning to Australia and being dropped from the team) should not be linked,"

Australia play their third test on 14 March at Mohali and will have only 13 members in the squad up for selection.

Image Courtesy: www.telegraph.co.uk 

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Khulna Royal Bengals downs Barisal Burners

Khulna Royal Bengals beat Barisal Burners by six runs in Mirpur in an encounter at the Bangladesh Premier League.

West Indies All-Rounder Dwayne Smith smashed an unbeaten 58 while compatriot Shivnarine Chanderpaul scored 27 and former Srilanka skipper Sanath Jayasuriya chipped in with useful 23 runs as Khulna chased down Barisal's 125 with 16 balls to spare.

Earlier, Barisal, who have dangerous Chris Gayle, were restricted to a below-par score by seamer Shafiul Islam, Spinners Shakib al Hasan and Jayasuriya, who bagged two wickets apiece. Gayle announced his arrival in Bangladesh with a blazing ton in the first game departed for a mere two runs.

 
Smith was adjudged Player-of-the-Match for his impressive innings.

Match Summary:

Barisal Burners: 125 (20/20 overs) (Shafiul Islam 2/7)

Khulna Royal Bengals: 131/3 (17.2/20 overs) (Smith 58*, Chanderpaul 27*)

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CLARKE TO MISS LANKA CLASH

Australia will be without skipper Michael Clarke for Friday’s CB Series match against Srilanka, after he suffered a hamstring injury against India.

The 30 year-old suffered a low grade right hamstring strain in the four-wicket defeat by India in Adelaide on Sunday.

Australia team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris said: "He had scans today (Monday) that confirmed the low grade nature of the injury.

"He will not recover in time to play in Australia's next Commonwealth Bank Series game on Friday but I will assess him later this week and decide on his availability for the game in Brisbane on Sunday 19 February against India."

The Australia squad for match against Sri Lanka is due to be named on Tuesday.
Clarke's injury means that ‘Mr.Cricket’ Michael Hussey will get a chance in the middle against the Sri Lankans. Hussey was rested in the match against India on Sunday.

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