Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is a franchise cricket team based in Chennai, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the eight teams that took part in the 2008 Indian Premier League which was the inaugural season of the IPL. They were captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and coached by Kepler Wessels. They finished runners-up in the IPL after losing the finals to the Rajasthan Royals by 3 wickets. They qualified for the 2008 Champions League Twenty20 but the tournament was cancelled due to 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Pre-season player signings During the first player auctions for the inaugural IPL season, conducted in January 2008, the Chennai team bought a number of contemporary star cricketers such as M.S. Dhoni, Matthew Hayden, Stephen Fleming, Muttiah Muralitharan and Michael Hussey. Dhoni became the costliest player of the auction, as the Chennai franchise bought him for $1.5 million.Dhoni snapped up for 1.5 million dollars at IPL auction They also bought Indian players such as Suresh Raina, Parthiv Patel, Lakshmipathy Balaji and Joginder Sharma and foreign players like Makhaya Ntini, Albie Morkel and Jacob Oram. Apart from these they signed several Indian domestic players like Subramaniam Badrinath, Manpreet Gony, Ravichandran Ashwin, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Anirudha Srikkanth, Sudeep Tyagi, Shadab Jakati and Abhinav Mukund.
Squad Players with international caps before the start of the 2008 IPL season are listed in bold. No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes Batsmen03 Suresh Raina Left-handed Right-arm off break Vice Captain06 Abhinav Mukund Left-handed Right-arm leg break 10 Anirudha Srikkanth Right-handed Right-arm off break 12 Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox 28 Matthew Hayden Left-handed Right-arm medium Overseas 33 Subramaniam Badrinath Right-handed Right-arm off break 42 Arun Karthik Right-handed Right-arm leg break 43 Stephen Fleming Left-handed Overseas48 Michael Hussey Left-handed Right-arm medium Overseas Chamara Kapugedera Right-handed Right-arm medium Overseas All-rounders24 Jacob Oram Left-handed Right arm medium-fast Overseas81 Albie Morkel Left-handed Right arm medium-fast Overseas Selvam Suresh Kumar . Right-handed Right-arm off break Napoleon Einstein Right-handed Right-arm off break Wicket-keepers07 Mahendra Singh Dhoni Right-handed Right-arm medium Captain09 Parthiv Patel Left-handed – Bowlers08 Muttiah Muralitharan Right-handed Right-arm off break Overseas11 Lakshmipathy Balaji Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 13 Joginder Sharma Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 14 Ravichandran Ashwin Right-handed Right-arm off break 16 Makhaya Ntini Right-handed Right arm fast-medium Overseas17 Sudeep Tyagi Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Withdrew from tournament21 Palani Amarnath Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 25 Shadab Jakati Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox 76 Manpreet Gony Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Viraj Kadbe Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Indian Premier League
The Super Kings won their first game against Kings XI Punjab by 33 runs, after scoring 240/5 which was the highest total of the tournament, a record surpassed by themselves in 2010 by scoring 246 runs. Chennai also managed to win a close match against Mumbai Indians by 6 runs despite Mumbai batsman Abhishek Nayar scoring an unbeaten 45. Then they went on to beat Kolkata Knight Riders comfortably by 9 wickets and Royal Challengers Bangalore by 13 runs in their next two games. But their winning run in the tournament took a hit when their overseas stars Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey and Jacob Oram had to leave for national duties. Their departure immediately affected their performance as they lost their next three games. The batting, although inconsistent, eventually adjusted to the losses of Hayden and Hussey with contributions from Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Albie Morkel. In the home game against Delhi Daredevils, CSK were unable to defend a target of 170 due to half-centuries by Delhi openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. At Jaipur against the home team Rajasthan Royals, the Super Kings batsmen struggled against Pakistani fast-bowler Sohail Tanvir who picked up the best bowling figures in the IPL 2008 (6/14). This was also the best bowling figures in a Twenty20 match until 2011, when Somerset spinner Arul Suppiah took figures of 6 for 5 against Glamorgan. CSK lost another home game to Deccan Chargers which was only the second victory for the latter in the tournament. Chennai beat Delhi Daredevils in their next game by chasing a target of 188, mainly due to the cameos by Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Fleming and Morkel. In their next game, Chennai defeated Kings XI Punjab by 18 runs after Subramaniam Badrinath and skipper Dhoni scored half-centuries. The match also witnessed Chennai's Lakshmipathy Balaji claiming the first hat-trick of the tournament and in the process also getting the first five-for (5/24 in 4 overs) in IPL history. However, they were crushed by the Mumbai Indians in Mumbai as opener Sanath Jayasuriya struck an unbeaten 114 off just 48 balls for the home team, to hand a 9-wicket defeat to the Super Kings. In their eleventh match of the season, they beat the Kolkata Knight Riders by 3 runs (D/L method) in a rain-affected match at the Eden Gardens. In the same match, Makhaya Ntini took the third hat-trick of the tournament and won the Man of the match award for his 4/32 in 4 overs. The Super Kings were unable to chase down a modest total of 127 despite being 60/0 at one stage and suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Royal Challengers Bangalore. In another home game, against Rajasthan Royals, CSK went down by 10 runs chasing 212. Albie Morkel's all-round efforts (2/35 in 4 overs and 71 off 40 balls) went in vain as the Super Kings succumbed to a second straight defeat. In their last league fixture, the Super Kings could easily beat the struggling Deccan Chargers by 7 wickets, with Raina scoring an unbeaten half-century. The Super Kings managed to get a semi-final spot with this win as they finished in third place in the league table with 16 points.
The side played their semi-final against the Kings XI Punjab, whom they managed to defeat by 9 wickets, thus entering the final. Electing to bat first, Kings XI scored only 112/8 in their 20 overs as Chennai bowlers dented the innings with wickets at regular intervals. Suresh Raina and Parthiv Patel scored unbeaten fifties and took the team to victory with more than five overs to spare. The Chennai outfit faced the resurgent Rajasthan Royals in the final which was played at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Batting first, Chennai made a decent total, 163/5, in their 20 overs, with Raina top-scoring with 43 and Parthiv Patel also contributing 38 runs. Rajasthan's run-chase was in trouble at one stage, with the scoreboard reading 42/3 in the seventh over. However, Rajasthan's all-rounder Shane Watson added 57 runs for the fourth wicket with Yusuf Pathan, who went on to score 56 off just 39 balls. With 8 required off the last over for the Royals with 3 wickets in hand, the match went down to the last ball, off which Sohail Tanvir scored a single to give his side the victory. Royals' all-rounder Yusuf Pathan won the Man-of-the-Match award for his all-round performance. The Chennai Super Kings won $600,000 prize money as they finished the tournament as runners-up.
Season standings
Match log No Date Opponent Venue Result Scorecard link1 19 April Kings XI Punjab Mohali Won by 33 runs, MoM – Michael Hussey 116* (54) Scorecard2 23 April Mumbai Indians Chennai Won by 6 runs, MoM – Matthew Hayden 81 (46) Scorecard3 26 April Kolkata Knight Riders Chennai Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Jacob Oram 3/32 (4 overs) Scorecard4 28 April Royal Challengers Bangalore Bangalore Won by 13 runs, MoM – Mahendra Singh Dhoni 65 (30) Scorecard5 2 May Delhi Daredevils Chennai Lost by 8 wickets Scorecard6 4 May Rajasthan Royals Jaipur Lost by 8 wickets Scorecard7 6 May Deccan Chargers Chennai Lost by 7 wickets Scorecard8 8 May Delhi Daredevils Delhi Won by 4 Wickets, MoM – Mahendra Singh Dhoni 33 (33) Scorecard9 10 May Kings XI Punjab Chennai Won by 18 runs, MoM – Lakshmipathy Balaji 5/24 (4 overs) Scorecard10 14 May Mumbai Indians Mumbai Lost by 9 wickets Scorecard11 18 May Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata Won by 3 runs (D/L method), MoM – Makhaya Ntini 4/21 (4 overs) Scorecard12 21 May Royal Challengers Bangalore Chennai Lost by 14 runs Scorecard13 24 May Rajasthan Royals Chennai Lost by 10 runs, MoM – Albie Morkel 2/35 (4 overs) and 71 (40) Scorecard14 27 May Deccan Chargers Hyderabad Won by 7 wickets, MoM – Suresh Raina 54* (43) Scorecard15 31 May Kings XI Punjab (Semi-final) Mumbai Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Makhaya Ntini 2/23 (4 overs) Scorecard16 1 June Rajasthan Royals (Final) Navi Mumbai Lost by 3 wickets Scorecard Overall Record of 9 – 7 Runners-up of the 2008 Indian Premier League
Most runs Player Innings Runs Average Strike rate Highest Score 100s 50s 14 456 38.27 142.71 55* 0 3 14 414 41.40 133.54 65 0 2 13 302 27.45 101.68 54 0 2 10 241 34.42 147.85 71 0 1 10 196 21.77 118.78 45 0 0
Most wickets Player Innings Wickets Average Economy rate Best Bowling 4w 13 17 23.47 8.31 4/32 1 16 17 26.05 7.38 3/34 0 9 11 26.00 8.66 5/24 1 15 11 36.72 6.96 2/39 0 7 8 28.87 9.68 2/27 0
Champions League Twenty20 Chennai Super Kings, being the runners-up of the IPL, were among the first sides to secure a berth for the event. However, the tournament was cancelled due to 2008 Mumbai Attacks and Chennai Super Kings, along with Rajasthan Royals, received $1.3 million as compensation.
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