Chennai Super Kings – CSK, History & IPL Achievement

About Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings is a team that competes in the IPL matches. Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited owns this team based in Chennai. The current captain of the team is Ruturaj Gaikwad. MS Dhoni was the previous captain of the team.

The coach of the team is Stephen Fleming. The team has won five IPL matches. The team has won two Champions League T20 matches. The team manager is Russell Radhakrishnan. The capacity of Chennai Super Kings is 38200. The team is one of the teams winning the highest number of IPL matches. The team has been playing IPL matches for 16 years. Check out: Virat Kohli

Personal and previous information about CSK

In September 2007, the board of control for cricket in India announced the IPL Indian Premier League and T20 matches competition. Chennai Super King was one of the eight teams based in the States. Chennai Super Kings was established in Chennai. On the selection of players, MS Dhoni was bought as the captain for $1.5 Million, which was an expensive auction.

At that time, MS Dhoni was the captain of the Indian team, and there were also other international players like Suresh Raina and Stephen Fleming. They played their first Match in 2008 against the Punjab team in Mohali. Thirty-three runs won them the first Match.

After that, they were known for their excellent playing skills, and the team became famous because of their beautiful performances. CSK has a great fan base and has been winning the IPL matches for a long time. Nowadays, the captain of the CSK team is Ritu Raj Gaikwad, as MS Dhoni is about to retire. After some time, the incredible history of CSK Stephen Fleming, who was playing as a player to the team’s command.

Championship and Success of CSK Team

Chennai Super Kings won 5 matches in the IPL and two games in the T20 competition. Regarding the other matches in Chennai, Super Kings have mostly been the runner-ups or finalists in IPL.

The Chennai Super Kings scored the highest 142/7 in 20 overs against the fantastic and tough competitor champions Deccan Chargers, but before restricting the Chargers to 148 runs in just a few balls. 

The Super Kings went against the team Mumbai Indians by 22 runs in the final to have the prestige of the first-ever IPL title. With the win, the Super Kings qualified for the 2010 Champions League T20 played so wonderfully that it was held in South Africa.

At the Champions League, the Super Kings finished at the top of Group A with three victories and a defeat. In the semi-final at Durban, the Super Kings won over Royal Challengers Bangalore by 52 runs.

In Johannesburg, the first Championship League T20 finale, CSK defeated the CW (Chevrolet Warriors) by eight wickets; that was an outstanding innings, and they reserved the second Title of T20 winnings. In the final, Player Murali Vijay was awarded the Golden Bat for the highest score and also won the Man of the Match award. Another thing happened there: Ashwin, who was leading the wicket side, was convicted of the best title, which was Player of the Series.

Further Success in 2021

In 2021 player auctions, Super Kings got Cheteshwar Pujara, Krishnappa Gowtham and Moeen Ali and bought Robin Uthappa from Rajasthan Royals. The Super Kings won five of the first seven matches before the season was stopped midway due to increasing COVID-19 cases. 

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The 2nd leg of the Indian Premier League was played in the UAE, and CSK qualified there and defeated Delhi Captions to jump to their 9th position in history. The Super Kings won over Kolkata Knight Riders in the finals to get their fourth IPL title.

Before the 2022 IPL season, CSK announced the replacement of MS Dhoni as the captain over Ravindra Jadeja. After a poor start to the season in which the Super Kings lost six of the first eight matches, Jadeja was upset and decided to give his captaincy to MS Dhoni on 30 March 2022. The Super Kings finished ninth out of the ten teams in the group stage and failed for only the second time in their IPL history.

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*Important: Brave was retired, but fortunately, he joined the team as the Bowling coach.

Crest and Colours

The team’s name was in honour of the rulers of the Tamil Kingdom. The name was chosen from the 25000 entities ago in a naming contest. The team logo has the lion roaring in the orange head crown. And the name of the team is blue. The primary colour of the team is yellow. The name of the teams in this is Whistle Podu, the latest version released in 2018.

Brand

Chennai Super Kings has regularly been one of the most valuable sports teams. In February 2013, London-based Brand Finance stated that the top 150 most valuable teams in the world, the Super Kings, were placed in 147th place with a brand and brand value of $46 million. 

What amazing news was that CSK reached its level over the unicorn enterprise level in India in January 2022. In 2022, Super Kings were the second most valuable IPL team, with the highest profit of roughly $1.15 billion.

Popularity of CSK

In 2019, a documentary or web series named Roar of The Lion was displayed on Disney+ Hotstar. The series showed the Chennai Super Kings’ ban from the Indian Premier League in 2016 and their return to winning the title in 2018.

Conclusion 

In this article, you will learn about the history, present, colour, achievement, and brand popularity of the CSK in IPL and T20. I will learn about the personal and critical information related to the team.