Chennai Super Kings Team 2016
There is no doubt in the fact that Chennai Super Kings is the most successful team of the IPL. It is the only IPL team after Mumbai Indians which have won both the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Champions League Twenty20, not once but twice. CSK won the IPL in 2010 and 2011 while they won the CLT20 in 2010 and 2014. Chennai Super Kings is also the most valuable franchise in the IPL and its brand value is over US$75.13 million. CSK is owned by Chennai Super Kings Cricket limited and it plays its home matches at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Chennai Super Kings is one of the teams which always remain in the semifinals and they are three times runner ups. They were the second best team of IPL in 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2015. The team is coached by Stephen Fleming and is led by Indian Team Captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Andy Bichel is the bowling coach while Steve Rixon is the fielding coach. CSK is also known for its fair play and has been awarded the fair play award for five times. The leading run-scorer of the team is Suresh Raina who is also the first player to score 2000 runs in IPL while the leading wicket taker for the team is R. Ashwin.
Chennai Super Kings Team Squad IPL 2016(Probable)
- Suresh Raina
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- Faf du Plessis
- Kyle John Abbott
- Dwayne Bravo
- Samuel Badree
- Brendon McCullum
- Baba Aparajith
- Michael Hussey
- Ronit More
- Mohit Sharma
- Ashish Nehra
- Pawan Negi
- Dwayne Smith
- Ishwar Pandey
- Mithun Manhas
- Rahul Sharma
- Matt Henry
Captain of CSK, M.S Dhoni is the most successful captain in the IPL with a success rate of 61.05%. Suresh Raina is considered as the trump card of the team and he is the most capped player of IPL and has not missed a single IPL match. He is currently the highest run scorer of IPL and is the only Player who scores over 400 runs in every season of IPL. In IPL 2016, CSK is considered as the strongest contender for the IPL trophy.
