Chennai Super Kings is the Chennai franchise for the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the highest-paid IPL Player, and coached by Kepler Wessels. There is no Icon Player for the team.
Franchise History
Chennai Super Kings are a part of the eight club Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by India Cements, who paid $91 million to acquire the rights of the franchise for the next 10 years. Former India test player Kris Srikkanth is the brand ambassador for the franchise, and another former Indian opener V. B. Chandrasekhar will be the chief selector. The brand ambasssadors for the team will be South Indian actor, Vijay and actress, Nayantara.
The M.A.Chidambaram stadium (often referred to as Chepauk, the place where the stadium is located) will be the home ground of the IPL team
The theme song of Chennai Super Kings, penned by Vairamuthu, is presently being composed by G V Prakash Kumar.
Etymology
The name "Super Kings" is to honor the rulers of the golden era of Tamil culture, the team logo has a Lion to reflect the King of the Jungle. In addition the word "Super" is colloquially used in the state of Tamil Nadu to reflect all things thrilling and exciting and is a word of the lips of almost every one in Tamil Nadu. Incidentally the Chennai team playing in the ICL (the rebel league) is named as "Chennai Superstars".
Players
Chennai Super Kings are one of the three franchises with no icon player. The lack of an icon player benefited the Super Kings during the bidding as they managed to bid successfully on two (Dhoni & Muralitharan) of the six A listed players.
The team plans to have twenty three players on its roster. Besides the list of players already acquired, the team will pick the remaining members from the three catchment areas - Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Railways - that have been allocated to it.
News
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Tamil movie stars Vijay and Nayantara add attraction to IPL
Chennai, India - March 18, 2008
The Chennai team of BCCI’s Indian Premiere League (IPL) has roped in two top stars from Kollywood to add colour to the team.
Who became Millionaire? Check it out.
Mumbai, India - Feb 20, 2008
Check it out who hit the Jack pot and who are left out. Top - M.S.Dhoni - $1.50 million, Lowest Chamara Silva - $1,00,000 for six week job.
Indian Premier League Players Auction Result
Mumbai, India - Feb 20, 2008
The Chennai Super Kings (India Cement) paid the highest amount for Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the first round. Dhoni was bought for Rs 6 crore ($1.5 million). Andrew Symonds became the second highest was bought by Hyderabad for
$1.35 million.
India Cement, Mukesh Ambani, Shahrukh, Vijay Mallya win bids for teams in Indian Premier League
Mumbai, India - Jan 24, 2008
Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan and industrialist Mukesh Ambani won bids on Thursday to own teams in the star-studdded Twenty20 Indian Premier League,organisers said. Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, film actress Preity Zinta and four companies also earned the right
to own franchises for the DLF Indian Premier League to be played across India in April-May.
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