Chennai Super Kings

**Chennai Super Kings** is one of the ten teams which play in the Indian Premier League. The team was found in 2008 and is owned by Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd. On 14 July 2015, the Supreme Court of India appointed RM Lodha committee suspended the Chennai Super Kings's owners from the IPL for a period of two years for the alleged involvement in the 2013 Indian Premier League betting case and the Chennai Super Kings then rested for two years and conquered IPL in 2018 gloriously. The team was captained by MS Dhoni since 2008 to 2023 and coached by Stephen Fleming since 2010. It has most fans in Instagram at 12.9 million followers.

The Super Kings had won the IPL trophy 5 times (2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023). In 2010, they won the Champions League Twenty20 trophy for the first time and repeated the feat in 2014. The leading run-scorer of the team is Suresh Raina, while the leading wicket-taker is Ravichandran Ashwin. Chennai Super Kings has most records of appearance in playoffs (12) and finals (10). The team has one of the strongest fan bases in India. They are the most time champions along with Mumbai Indians at five times and they have the highest statistics of all IPL teams in India fully.

## Franchise history
In September 2007, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the establishment of the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 competition to be started in 2008. In January 2008, the BCCI unveiled the owners of eight city-based franchises. The Chennai franchise was sold to the India Cements for $91 million, making it the fourth most expensive team in the league behind Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad. India Cements acquired the rights to the franchise for 10 years.

## Team history 
### 2008–2009: First seasons 
During the first player auctions for the inaugural IPL season conducted in January 2008, the Chennai franchise bought a number of contemporary star cricketers such as MS Dhoni, Matthew Hayden, Stephen Fleming, Muttiah Muralitharan, Michael Hussey. MS Dhoni became the costliest player of the auction, as the Chennai franchise bought him for $1.5 million.The franchise named MS Dhoni as the captain of the team and appointed Kepler Wessels as the head coach.They played their first game on 19 April 2008 against Punjab Kings at Mohali. The Super Kings won the game by 33 runs after posting 240/5 in 20 overs, which was the highest total of the tournament, a record surpassed by themselves in 2010. The Super Kings ended the league stage with eight wins from 14 games and finished third on the points table. They beat the Punjab Kings by 9 wickets in the semifinal. The Super Kings faced the Rajasthan Royals in the final of the IPL at Mumbai. Batting first, the Super Kings scored 163/5 in 20 overs and lost the game by 3 wickets off the final delivery of the match.

### 2010: IPL and CLT20 double wins 
In 2010, the Super Kings struggled in the first half of the regular season, winning only two matches out of seven. They won four of their next five games in the season mainly due to the efforts of Murali Vijay and Suresh Raina. After a defeat at home to the Delhi Capitals, the Super Kings were left with a must-win match against Kings XI Punjab at Dharamsala. The Super Kings won the match by six wickets as they chased down the target of 193 with two balls to spare with skipper Dhoni scoring an unbeaten 54 from 29 balls. Chennai got the third place as they had the better net run rate of the four teams which finished on 14 points. In the semifinal, the Super Kings scored a modest 142/7 in 20 overs against the defending champions Deccan Chargers. But an inspired bowling spell from Doug Bollinger (4/13 in four overs) did the most damage as the Chargers were bowled out for 104. This gave the Super Kings a 38-run victory that took them to the final. The Super Kings faced the tournament favorites Mumbai Indians at their home ground in the final. Suresh Raina's 57 (35) helped the Super Kings recover from 68/3 after 12 overs to put up 168/5 at the end of their 20 overs. Then, their spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Muttiah Muralitharan conceded only 41 runs in the 8 overs bowled between them to help the Super Kings won the game by 22 runs and secure their first ever IPL title. With this, the Super Kings also qualified for the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 that was held in South Africa. However at the Champions League Twenty20 later that year, they won only one out of their four group matches and finished at the bottom.

In 2012, the franchise signed up Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja for $2 million at the players' auction. They got off to a rather slow start in the regular season, winning only five of their first 12 games which put them in doubt of qualifying for the playoffs. Then they won three of their last four matches and qualified for the playoffs with a better net run rate than the Royal Challengers Bengaluru who also finished with the same number of points. In the eliminator, they beat the Mumbai Indians by 38 runs before comprehensively beating the table-toppers Delhi Capitals in the qualifying final by 86 runs. Murali Vijay, who struck his second IPL hundred (113 off 58 balls), won the Man of the Match. At the final, the Super Kings were defeated by 5 wickets by the Kolkata Knight Riders who chased down the target of 191 with two balls to spare, thus denying the Super Kings a hat-trick of titles in the IPL. and abolished those two teams and made these two teams rule in 2018 and Chennai Super Kings won IPL 2018 and defeated Mumbai Indians and all the other IPL teams successfully.

## Awards and Achievements 
**2008 Indian Premier League**
* Runners-up of 2008 Indian Premier League
* Fair Play Award Winner
* Highest total of the tournament *(240/5)*
* Centuries: *(Michael Hussey 116*)*
* Hat-tricks: *(Lakshmipathy Balaji and Makhaya Ntini)*

**2009 Indian Premier League**
* Semi-finalists of 2009 Indian Premier League
* Winner of Orange Cap *(Matthew Hayden)*
* Player of the Tournament *(Matthew Hayden)*

**2010 Indian Premier League**
* Champions of the 2010 Indian Premier League
* Fair Play Award Winner
* Highest team total of the tournament *(246/5)*
* Best bowling figures of the tournament *(Doug Bollinger)*
* Highest score in the tournament *(Murali Vijay 127*)*
* Centuries *(Murali Vijay 127*)*
* IPL Awards: Most Economical Bowler *(Ravichandran Ashwin)*
* Highest individual score *(Suresh Raina 94*)*
* Winner of Golden Wicket *(Ravichandran Ashwin)*
* Best bowling figures of the tournament *(Ravichandran Ashwin 4/18)*
* Player of the Tournament *(Ravichandran Ashwin)*

**2011 Indian Premier League**
* Champions of the 2011 Indian Premier League
* Fair Play Award Winner
* Won all home matches

**2012 Indian Premier League**
* Runners-up of 2012 Indian Premier League
* Highest team total of the tournament *(222/5)*
* Best bowling figure of the tournament *(Ravindra Jadeja 5/16)*
* Centuries: *(Murali Vijay 113*)*
* 1st player to score 2000 runs in IPL *(Suresh Raina)*

**2013 Indian Premier League**
* Runners-up of 2013 Indian Premier League
* 1st team to register 50 wins in IPL
* Fair Play Award Winner
* Centuries: *(Suresh Raina 100*)*
* Winner of Orange Cap *(Michael Hussey)*
* Winner of Purple Cap *(Dwayne Bravo)*

**2014 Indian Premier League**
* Semi-Finalists
* Fair Play Award Winner
* First Team to play 100 games in IPL
* Suresh Raina becomes the first player to play 100 games and score 3000 runs in IPL
* Winner of Purple Cap *(Mohit Sharma)*

**2014 Champions League**
* Champions of 2014 Champions League Twenty20
* Centuries: *(Suresh Raina 109*)*
* Player of the Tournament: *(Suresh Raina)*
* Leading Run-Scorer of the Tournament: *(Suresh Raina)*
* Best Bowling Figures of the Tournament: *(Pawan Negi)*
* Maximum Sixes of the Tournament: *(Suresh Raina)*

**2015 Indian Premier league**
* Runners Up of 2015 Indian Premier League
* Fair Play Award Winner
* Centuries: *(Brendon McCullum 100*)*
* Best Bowling Figures: *(Ashish Nehra)* 4/10 (4 overs)
* Winner of Purple Cap: *(Dwayne Bravo)* 26 wickets
* Best catch of the season: *(Dwayne Bravo)*
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