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Player list of CSK

List of Chennai Super Kings cricketers

The Chennai Super Kings (often abbreviated as "CSK") are a franchise cricket team based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The team was founded in 2008 and is currently captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and coached by Stephen Fleming, a former New Zealand cricketer. The brand value of Chennai Super Kings was estimated to be US$75.13 million, making them the most valuable franchise in the IPL.

Chennai Super Kings have reached the IPL playoffs eight times, and have won the title thrice as of 2018 tournament. They played their first Twenty20 match in the first season of the IPL against Kings XI Punjab. They are currently the best team in IPL history having some great names like MSD.

The first list includes all players who have played in at least one match for the Super Kings and is initially listed alphabetically by their last name. The second list comprises all those players who have captained the team in at least one match, arranged in the order of the first match as captain.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who was the captain of the Indian limited-overs team in 2008, was bought by the Super Kings for $1.5 million at the 2008 players' auction. He was the most expensive player in the IPL until 2009 when the Super Kings signed up English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff for $1.55 million. Dhoni is one of the most successful captains in the IPL, having led the Super Kings to eight finals of which the team has won three.

The vice-captain of the team from 2008 to 2015 was Suresh Raina. Raina holds multiple IPL records such as most caps, most runs and most catches. Australian batsman Michael Hussey has the 2nd best batting average for the Super Kings. He was the first batsman from the Super Kings to score a century in the IPL. After Matthew Hayden's retirement in 2010, Hussey took over his place of opening batsman and was the team's leading run-scorer in 2011 and 2013 seasons. Murali Vijay, who played for the team from 2009 to 2013 and again play 2018 to present in IPL, is the first Indian batsman to score two centuries in the IPL. Super Kings' spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has the third best economy rate in IPL (6.53) and is the leading wicket-taker for the team. Dwayne bravo is most wicket taker bolwer for the team.

Chennai Super Kings

Current squad

 Players with international caps are listed in bold.

 *  denotes a player who is currently unavailable for selection.

 *  denotes a player who is unavailable for rest of the season.

No.	Name	Nat	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen
3	Suresh Raina		Left-handed	Right-arm off break	Vice-captain
81	Kedar Jadhav		Right-handed	Right-arm off break
33	Shane Watson		Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Overseas
9	Ambati Rayudu		Right-handed	Right-arm off break
1	Murali Vijay		Right-handed	Right-arm off break
13	Faf du Plessis		Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Overseas
31	Ruturaj Gaikwad		Right-handed	Right-arm off break
All-rounders
74	Mitchell Santner		Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	Overseas
58	Sam Curran		Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	Overseas
Wicket-keepers
7	MS Dhoni		Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Captain
18	Narayan Jagadeesan		Right-handed
Spin Bowlers
8	Ravindra Jadeja		Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
36	Karn Sharma		Left-handed	Right-arm leg break
99	Imran Tahir		Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Overseas
27	Harbhajan Singh		Right-handed	Right-arm off break
21	Piyush Chawla		Left-handed	Right-arm leg break
N/A	R Sai Kishore		Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Pace Bowlers
47	Dwayne Bravo		Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Overseas
54	Shardul Thakur		Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
90	Deepak Chahar		Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
22	Lungi Ngidi		Right-handed	Right-arm fast	Overseas
24	KM Asif		Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
23	Monu Kumar		Right-handed	Right-arm medium
38	Josh Hazlewood		Left-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Overseas

CSK Squad IPL 2020

All Players list of CSK (Squad of Chennai Super Kings)

General
Name	First	Last	Nationality
Palani Amarnath	2008	2008	India
Ravichandran Ashwin	2009	2015	India
Subramaniam Badrinath	2008	2013	India
George Bailey	2009	2010	Australia
Lakshmipathy Balaji	2008	2010	India
Doug Bollinger	2009	2012	Australia
Dwayne Bravo  ₪ ∇	2011	-	West Indies
MS Dhoni    ₪ ∆	2008	-	India
Francois du Plessis  ₪ ∇	2012	-	South Africa
Stephen Fleming	2008	2008	New Zealand
Andrew Flintoff	2009	2009	England
C. Ganapathy	2009	2009	India
Manpreet Gony	2008	2010	India
Matthew Hayden	2008	2010	Australia
Ben Hilfenhaus	2012	2014	Australia
Jason Holder	2013	2013	West Indies
Dwayne Smith	2014	2015	West Indies
Michael Hussey	2008	2015	Australia
Ravindra Jadeja § ₪ ∆	2012	-	India
Shadab Jakati	2009	2012	India
Chamara Kapugedera	2008	2008	Sri Lanka
Arun Karthik	2010	2010	India
Justin Kemp	2010	2010	South Africa
Nuwan Kulasekara	2011	2012	Sri Lanka
Ben Laughlin	2013	2013	Australia
Yo Mahesh	2012	2012	India
Albie Morkel	2008	2013	South Africa
Chris Morris	2013	2013	South Africa
Abhinav Mukund	2008	2008	India
Muttiah Muralitharan	2008	2010	Sri Lanka
Dirk Nannes	2013	2013	Australia
Makhaya Ntini	2008	2008	South Africa
Jacob Oram	2008	2009	New Zealand
Parthiv Patel	2008	2010	India
Thisara Perera	2010	2010	Sri Lanka
Suresh Raina   ₪ ∆	2008	-	India
Ankit Rajpoot	2013	2013	India
Suraj Randiv	2011	2011	Sri Lanka
Wriddhiman Saha	2011	2013	India
Joginder Sharma	2008	2011	India
Mohit Sharma	2013	2019	India
Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan	2008	2008	India
Tim Southee	2011	2011	New Zealand
Anirudha Srikkanth	2008	2013	India
Scott Styris	2011	2011	New Zealand
Thilan Thushara	2009	2010	Sri Lanka
Sudeep Tyagi	2009	2010	India
Kedar Jadhav	2018	-	India
Murali Vijay  ₪	2009	-	India
Brendon McCullum	2013	2015	New Zealand
Harbhajan Singh	2018	-	India
Shane Watson	2018	-	Australia
Ambati Rayudu	2018	-	India
Karn Sharma	2018	-	India
Shardul Thakur	2018	-	India
Jagadeesan Narayan	2018	-	India
Deepak Chahar	2018	-	India
KM Asif	2018	-	India
Kanishk Seth	2018	2018	India
Dhruv Shorey	2018	-	India
Kshitiz Sharma	2018	2018	India
Monu Singh	2018	-	India
Chaitanya Bishnoi	2018	-	India
Imran Tahir	2018	-	South Africa
Mitchell Santner	2018	-	New Zealand
Lungisani Ngidi	2018	-	South Africa
Sam Billings	2018	-	England
Mark Wood	2018	2018	England
David Willey	2018	-	England
Sam Curran	2020	-	England
Piyush Chawla	2020	-	India
Josh Hazlewood	2020	-	Australia
Sai Kishore	2020	-	India

Captains

1. MS Dhoni 
2. Suresh Raina

Dhoni and raina

Administration and support staff

Owner – India Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd

Head coach – New Zealand Stephen Fleming

Batting coach – Australia Michael Hussey

Bowling coach – India Lakshmipathy Balaji

Bowling consultant – South Africa Eric Simons

Physical trainer – South Africa Greg King

Physio – Australia Tommy Simsek

High Performance analyst – India Lakshmi Narayanan

Team manager – India Russell Radhakrishnan

Team doctor – India Madhu

Logistics manager – India Sanjay Natarajan

See also

• Chennai Super Kings