IPL Chennai Super Kings

2/22/2008 4:03:34 PM

India Cements Ltd. IPL team Chennai Super Kings

History was made on Wednesday (February 20) as cricket's biggest names were auctioned today at Hilton Towers, Mumbai. A total of 79 players both Indian and international went under the hammer for the multi-million dollar Indian Premier League.

One of the eight teams which feature in this extravagent form of the game is CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

Owner: The team is owned by India Cements and have acquired ther rights for the team for the next 10 years. The team has been named Super Kings. The name of the team comes from the aim to salute the golden era of the state. Former veteran cricketer Krish Srikanth is the brand ambassador of the team. India Cements brought the team for an amount of US$ 91 million (Rs 364 crore). An amount of US$ 5,925,000 was spent to buy players for the team from the auction held on February 20, 2008.

About owner: N Srinivasan is the Vice-chairman and Managing Director of the India Cements company which is one of the biggest south Indian company with turnovers well over 1,000 crores. They span into the areas of Cement, Sugar, trading and Finance.

Players: The most spokent about player -- MS Dhoni was bagged by Chennai for a whopping Rs 6cr. Alongside with him will be players of the likes of Muralitharan, Jacob Oram, Michael Hussey, Suresh Raina.


Current Squad

Player	Price	T20 Statistics Mat Runs HS SR Wkts
MS Dhoni (India)	US$ 1,500,000 (Rs 6cr)	14 295 73 134.09 -
Muthaih Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)	US$ 600,000 (Rs 2.4cr)	8 16 9 160.00 17
Matthew Hayden (Australia)	US$ 375,000 (Rs 1.5cr)	9 308 73 143.92 -
Jacob Oram (New Zealand)	US$ 675,000 (Rs 2.7cr)	17 407 66 153.00 6
Stephen Fleming (New Zealand)	US$ 350,000 (Rs 1.4cr)	36 816 64 123.26 -
Parthiv Patel (India)	US$ 320,000 (Rs 1.3cr)	9 159 57 134.74 -
Albie Morkel (South Africa)	US$ 675,000 (Rs 2.7cr)	34 478 56 132.40 22
Joginder Sharma (India)	US$ 225,000 (Rs 90lac)	12 73 35 132.72 10
Suresh Raina (India)	US$ 650,000 (Rs 2.6cr)	1 3 3 75.00 -
Makhaya Ntini (South Africa)	US$ 200,000 (Rs 80lac)	16 16 6 100.00 11
Michael Hussey (Australia)	US$ 350,000 (Rs 1.4cr)	20 484 88 123.78 -