Chennai Super Kings, a franchise that represents the south Indian city, Chennai. Chennai Super Kings is owned by India Cements. This team is owned by India Cements for 10 years and the whole team is valued at US$ 91 million, and was bought on January 2008. Mr. N. Srinivasan who is the Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of India Cements Ltd., is the owner of the Chennai Super Kings.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the captain of the team and also most priced player (US$ 1,500,000). Coach of the team is Kepler Wessels, the former South African batsmen and captain. Chennai Super Kings have some good players in the team like Muttiah Muralitharan, Makhaya Ntini, Jacob Oram, Albie Morkel, Matthew Hayden and Michael Hussey. Following are the players taken into the Chennai Super Kings team, with their bidding price.
- Mahendra Dhoni (US$ 1.5 million)
- Muttiah Muralitharan (US$ 600,00)
- Matthew Hayden (US$ 375,000)
- Jacob Oram (US$ 675,000)
- Stephen Fleming (US$ 350,000)
- Parthiv Patel (US$ 325,000)
- Joginder Sharma (US$ 225,000)
- Albie Morkel (US$ 675,000)
- Suresh Raina (US$ 650,000)
- Makhaya Ntini (US$ 200,000)
- Michael Hussey (US$ 350,000)
Apart from these International players, there are a few National level players taken into the team, like Suresh Raina, Subramaniam Badrinath, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Manpreet Gony and Lakshmipathy Balaji. Home Ground of team is M.A.Chidambaram stadium with capacity of 50,000.
Administration and coaching staff:
Owner – India Cements Ltd.
Ambassadors – Kris Srikkanth and Vijay
Chief Selector – V. B. Chandrasekhar
Coaches:
Head Coach – Kepler Wessels
Physiotherapist – Tommy Simsek
Physical Trainer – Gregory King
chennai super king is very strong team.I like that team very much.I love matthew because he plays like lion.next IPL chennai will win i now that and that should also now that v are a strong team