Chennai Super Kings in 2013

Chennai Super Kings
2013 season
Coach Stephen Fleming
Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni
IPL reched to the finals
CLT20 Qualified
Most runs Mike Hussey (732)
Most wickets Dwayne Bravo (32)
Most catches Dwayne Bravo (12)
Most wicket-keeping dismissals MS Dhoni (12)

The 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 nine teams that competed in the 2013 Indian Premier League. They were captained for the sixth season in succession by Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Background

By the end of October 2012, all IPL teams were given an opportunity to trim their squad with which CSK retained 16 players of their 2012 squad. They released George Bailey, Doug Bollinger, Joginder Sharma, Suraj Randiv, Yo Mahesh, Abhinav Mukund, Scott Styris, Sudeep Tyagi, K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh from their squad.[1]

Pre-season player signings

Before the auction, coach Stephen Fleming hinted that the team is looking to boost the local bowling option and also the pace department.[2] At the auction, the Super Kings did not bid for a single batsman. They picked up five bowlers instead, which Gurunath Meiyappan, who was part of the Super Kings auction team, said was their sole objective.

Dirk Nannes was their first buy, but their most surprising purchase was South Africa's bowling allrounder Chris Morris for $625,000. Soon after getting Morris, the Super Kings went after the Sri Lankan spinner Sachithra Senanayake too, but lost him to Kolkata Knight Riders. Towards the end of the auction they picked up Australian seamer Ben Laughlin, Sri Lankan spinner Akila Dananjaya and the towering West Indian quick Jason Holder, all at their respective base prices.[3]

Post-auction, CSK first signed up the Indian U-19 all-rounder Baba Aparajith and also uncapped Tamil Nadu player Vijay Shankar.[4] In a continuation of their auction strategy, Chennai Super Kings beefed up their bowling department further by signing five Indian uncapped bowlers. The bowlers signed-up were UP duo of Imtiyaz Ahmed and Ankit Rajpoot, Haryana quick Mohit Sharma, Karnataka pacer Ronit More and Tamil Nadu left-arm spinner R Karthikeyan.[5]

Squad

Players with international caps before the start of the 2013 IPL season are listed in bold.

No. Name Nat. Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
03 Suresh Raina India 27 November 1986 Left-handed Right-arm off break Vice-captain
13 Francois du Plessis South Africa 13 July 1984 Right-handed Right-arm leg break Overseas
33 Subramaniam Badrinath India 30 August 1980 Right-handed Right-arm off break
48 Michael Hussey Australia 27 May 1975 Left-handed Right-arm medium Overseas
77 Anirudha Srikkanth India 14 April 1987 Right-handed Right-arm off break
All-rounders
02 Chris Morris South Africa 30 April 1987 Right-handed Right-arm medium Overseas
05 Baba Aparajith India 8 July 1994 Right-handed Right-arm off break
12 Ravindra Jadeja India 6 December 1988 Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox
26 Vijay Shankar India 26 January 1991 Right-handed Right-arm off break
47 Dwayne Bravo Trinidad and Tobago 7 October 1983 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas
81 Albie Morkel South Africa 10 June 1981 Left-handed Right arm medium-fast Overseas
Wicket-keepers
06 Wriddhiman Saha India 24 October 1984 Right-handed  
07 Mahendra Singh Dhoni India 7 July 1981 Right-handed Right-arm medium Captain
Bowlers
01 R Karthikeyan India 26 January 1993 Right-handed Slow left arm orthodox
04 Akila Dananjaya Sri Lanka 4 October 1993 Left-handed Right-arm off break Overseas
18 Mohit Sharma India 18 September 1988 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
22 Ronit More India 11 February 1992 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
27 Shadab Jakati India 27 November 1980 Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox
28 Ben Hilfenhaus Australia 15 March 1983 Right-handed Right arm fast-medium Overseas
29 Dirk Nannes Australia 16 May 1976 Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium Overseas
43 Ankit Rajpoot India 4 December 1993 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
55 Ben Laughlin Australia 3 October 1982 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas
63 Imtiyaz Ahmed India 10 November 1985 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
92 Nuwan Kulasekara Sri Lanka 22 July 1982 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas
98 Jason Holder Barbados 5 November 1991 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas
99 Ravichandran Ashwin India 17 September 1986 Right-handed Right-arm off break

Indian Premier League

Match I: Super Kings started their season again with a loss, in their home ground, in a tight match against Mumbai Indians. Though the bowlers started restricting and take regular wickets, Pollard's onslaught helped Mumbai Indians reach 148. Super Kings batsmen stumbled through the chase with many of them falling for cheap shots. The skipper and captain of Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni got the Chennai Super Kings back into the game by a scoring an amazing 51 of just 26 ball including 5 boundaries and 3 maximums and a strike rate of 196.15. He played superbly and was going for a maximum when unfortunately he got out with Pollard taking the catch of MSD, once again proved the match winner for Mumbai Indians[6]

Match II: In the second match at Mohali, CSK won over KXIP with an astounding 10 wicket win. Winning the toss and opting to bowl, CSK's bowlers were constantly taking the wickets and bowled out KXIP for 138. David Hussey and Gurkeerat Singh helped KXIP to stabilize in the middle overs until Ashwin and Bravo struck back. Michael Hussey and Murali Vijay started the chase in a slow and steady manner. Once they were settled Hussey's blows made the run chase too easy with CSK winning it with 10 wickets and 16 balls to spare. Vijay playing the second fiddle reached his half century in run a ball. Mike Hussey was awarded Man of the Match for his clean-hit 86 off 54 balls.[7]

Match III: CSK's third match was one of the best matches in all of the IPL so far. the Arch-rivals of CSK, RCB made 165 with the help of Kohli's 58 and AB De Villiers' cracking 64 off 32 balls. Batting CSK lost its openers cheaply at a poor runrate. Badrinath and Raina doing the repairs at the middle stages, Dhoni and Jadeja tweeking in the pre-last stages, CSK was made to get 29 runs from last 11 balls when Dhoni got out. WIth short Cameos from Bravo and Morris, it was all down to Ravindra Jadeja to score 2 runs in the last ball. Off which, he gave a catch to the third man. Kohli was rejoicing the win and seeing the umpire giving the No ball, it was confirmed a CSK's win.[8] Post Match, many Jadeja's jokes started to revolve the Internet. MSD tweeted "When you give Sir Ravindra Jadeja one ball to get 2 runs he will win it with one ball to spare !!"[9]

Match IV: Playing their 3rd game at home and facing a relatively low-threatening Pune Warriors India, CSK played one of its most lethargic display at the field. Bringing in Anirudha and Albie Morkel in the team for Mike Hussey and Mohit Sharma, CSK nowhere showed the wish to win the game. Pune dominated from the first with the power hitting of Aaron Finch and late surge from Steven Smith. Pune reached a competitive 159.CSK lost the game by 24 runs.[10]

Match V: CSK played against the sulking Delhi Daredevils who are struggling to record their first win this season. CSK chose to bat first after winning the toss and set a pretty solid target of 170. Michael Hussey and Mahendra Singh Dhoni played their ace game with good support from Suresh Raina. DD started their wobbly innings with David Warner cheaply gone for 1 run and wickets continued to fall in short intervals. DD succumbed to a meager 83. This could be considered as one of the worst performances of DD and they have to win 9 of the next 10 games they have ahead of them.[11]

Match VI: CSK played their 6th match against the struggling Kolkata Knight Riders. KKR captain Gautam Gambhir won the toss and elected to bat.Skipper Gautam Gambhir and all-rounder Yusuf Pathan gave them a brisk start of 25 off 19 and 25 off 22 respectively .But soon Morris stuck for his side and an excellent catch by Hussey to get rid of Gautam Gambhir .Soon Yusuf pathan also was run-out by a quick throw by Bravo. In the end of the first innings KKR could only manage 119/6 in their 20 overs. CSK started off well but soon lost wickets at regular intervals. M. Hussey played a vital innings of 40 off 51 balls though it was slow in the context of the game . With 48 to win from 24, Ravindra Jadeja arrived at the crease and struck an awesome cameo of 36 off just 14 delivered the goods and took CSK past the line. CSK in the end won the encounter by 5 wickets and 5 balls to spare.

Match VII: Playing their 4th match in their home ground, CSK once again lost the toss was asked to bowl by the Rajasthan Royals captain Rahul Dravid. Batting first, RR off to a flier with Watson going all guns blazing. Though one side wickets were sliding, RR reached 185 helped by a magnificent century by Watson and some late power-hits by Stuart Binny. CSK while chasing lost Vijay cheaply once again within the Powerplays. With some fluent hits by Michael Hussey and heavy shots by RainaRaina consolidating the middle overs, CSK reached 100 in the 11th over. With Raina getting out for 55, Hussey going for well played 88 and Jadeja getting out in the next ball, CSK once again went into the danger zone. However MSD's cameo fireworks and Dwayne Bravo's last over heroics helped CSK win the match with a ball to spare. Hussey was awarded MoM for his match-winning 88 runs off 51 balls.[12]

Match VIII: The 34th match of IPL6 witnessed SRH batting first and posting a modest total of 159 with the help of Shikhar Dhawan's well paced 63 and Aashish Reddy's late surge 36. In response, CSK's top order responded well with all contributing and Dhoni going berserk in the final overs. Karan Sharma's maiden in the final overs gave the much needed pressure but Dhoni emphatically pulled the match easily. From 0 off 6 balls, he surged to 67 off 37 balls thus winning the MoM unanimously.[13]

Match IX: In the reminiscent of the last year finals, Current Champions Kolkata Knight Riders faced current runners up CSK in the Chepauk Stadium for the 38th match of IPL 6. Batting first CSK once again showed its batting strength with Hussey and Newcomer Saha smashing 100 in the 10th over. With heavy top order hitting from Saha, Raina and Hussey, CSK reached 200. KKR's innings featured some glimpse of last year finals with Bisla going hammer and tonks at the CSK Bowlers'. With some intelligent and tight bowling from Morris and Bravo's 19th and 20th over, CSK won the game convincingly. Hussey's master class 95 with an astonoshing strike rate of 161 earned him the MoM once again.[14]

Match log

No. Date Opponent Venue Result Scorecard link
1 April 6, 2013 Mumbai Indians Chennai Lost by 9 runs Scorecard
2 April 10, 2013 Kings XI Punjab Mohali Won by 10 wickets, MoM Australia Mike Hussey 86* (54) Scorecard
3 April 13, 2013 Royal Challengers Bangalore Chennai Won by 4 wickets, MoM India Ravindra Jadeja 38* (20) Scorecard
4 April 15, 2013 Pune Warriors India Chennai Lost by 24 runs Scorecard
5 April 18, 2013 Delhi Daredevils New Delhi Won by 86 runs, MoM Australia Mike Hussey 65* (50) Scorecard
6 April 20, 2013 Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata Won by 4 wickets, MoM -India Ravindra Jadeja 36* (14) & 3/20 Scorecard
7 April 22, 2013 Rajasthan Royals Chennai Won by 5 wickets, MoM Australia Mike Hussey 88 (51) Scorecard
8 April 25, 2013 Sunrisers Hyderabad Chennai Won by 5 wickets, MoM India Mahendra Singh Dhoni 67* (37) Scorecard
9 April 28, 2013 Kolkata Knight Riders Chennai Won by 14 runs, MoM Australia Mike Hussey 95 (59) Scorecard
10 April 30, 2013 Pune Warriors India Pune Won by 37 runs; MoM India Mahendra Singh Dhoni 45* (16) Scorecard
11 May 2, 2013 Kings XI Punjab Chennai Won by 15 runs; MoM - India Suresh Raina 100* (53) Scorecard
12 May 5, 2013 Mumbai Indians Mumbai Lost by 60 runs Scorecard
13 May 8, 2013 Sunrisers Hyderabad Hyderabad Won by 77 runs; MoM - India Suresh Raina 99* (52) & 1/4 (1 Over) Scorecard
14 May 12, 2013 Rajasthan Royals Jaipur Lost by 5 wickets Scorecard
15 May 14, 2013 Delhi Daredevils Chennai Won by 33 runs; MoM India Mahendra Singh Dhoni 58* (35) Scorecard
16 May 18, 2013 Royal Challengers Bangalore Bengaluru Lost by 24 runs Scorecard
17 May 21, 2013 Mumbai Indians (Qualifier #1) New Delhi Won by 48 runs, MoM Australia Mike Hussey 86* (58) Scorecard
18 May 26, 2013 Mumbai Indians (Finals) Kolkata Lost by 23 runs Scorecard

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