Chennai Super Kings in 2009

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The Chennai Super Kings were one of the eight teams that took part in the 2009 Indian Premier League. They were captained by Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni for the second season in succession.

Background

Chennai Super Kings had finished as runners-up in the 2008 season of IPL. They had qualified for the 2008 CLT20, but the tournament was cancelled in the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.Template:Fact

Pre-season player signings

The Super Kings bought English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff for $1.55 million at the 2009 auction making him the highest-paid IPL cricketer along with English teammate Kevin Pietersen who was bought for the same amount by Royal Challengers Bangalore. Apart from Flintoff, the Chennai Super Kings also bought Murali Vijay, Thilan Thushara and George Bailey. Stephen Fleming, who had decided to retire from all forms of the game after the first season of the IPL, took over as the coach of the Super Kings team from Kepler Wessels. Their batting department was further weakened as Michael Hussey decided to skip the season in order to focus on international cricket ahead of the Ashes.

Squad

Players with international caps before the start of the 2009 IPL season are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Nat	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen
03	Suresh Raina	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	Vice-captain
08	Murali Vijay	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
10	George Bailey	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Overseas
12	Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	Withdrawn Player
28	Matthew Hayden	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	Overseas
33	Subramaniam Badrinath	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
42	Arun Karthik	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
All-rounders
11	Andrew Flintoff	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Overseas Withdrawn Player
24	Jacob Oram	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Overseas
81	Albie Morkel	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Overseas
Wicket-keepers
07	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Captain
09	Parthiv Patel	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	–
Bowlers
08	Muttiah Muralitharan	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Overseas
11	Lakshmipathy Balaji	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
13	Joginder Sharma	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
14	Ravichandran Ashwin	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
16	Makhaya Ntini	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Overseas
17	Sudeep Tyagi	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
21	Palani Amarnath	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
25	Shadab Jakati	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
76	Manpreet Gony	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
97	Thilan Thushara	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Left-arm fast-medium
	Viraj Kadbe	Template:Flagicon	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break

Indian Premier League

The Chennai Super Kings were defeated in their first game of the tournament by the Mumbai Indians by 19 runs. Mumbai skipper Sachin Tendulkar scored an unbeaten half-century and fast bowler Lasith Malinga picked up 3/15 in 4 overs. The Super Kings defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore in their next game by 92 runs, thanks to Matthew Hayden's 65 (35). CSK, however, lost against the Delhi Daredevils by 9 runs at Durban, where Delhi batsman AB de Villiers scored the first century of the season. Hayden, once again starred with the bat as he scored 57 off 27 balls in the same match. After an abandoned game against Kolkata Knight Riders at Cape Town, CSK lost to the Deccan Chargers by 6 wickets, giving the latter their fourth consecutive win of the season. The Super Kings then returned to form by winning their next five games. Riding on Suresh Raina's 98 (55), Chennai beat Rajasthan Royals by 38 runs at SuperSport Park in Centurion. In the next match against the Delhi Daredevils, left-arm spinner Shadab Jakati impressed with figures of 4/24 as he picked up the crucial wickets of Warner, Dilshan and Dinesh Karthik, giving his team an 18-run victory. At East London, the Super Kings beat Deccan Chargers by 78 runs, with skipper MS Dhoni scoring 58* and spinner Jakati taking 4/22 in 4 overs. They won their next game against Kings XI Punjab by 12 runs in an 18-overs-a-side match. CSK opener Matthew Hayden top-scored with 89 (58), a knock that overpowered half-centuries from KXIP's Yuvraj Singh and Simon Katich. With Subramaniam Badrinath scoring an unbeaten fifty, Chennai cruised to their fifth consecutive win, by beating Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets. Their winning streak came to an end against the Royal Challengers in a low-scoring game at Durban where RCB won the match by two wickets with two balls to spare after Chennai were bundled out for 129 in the first innings. The Super Kings were able to beat the Mumbai Indians at Port Elizabeth by 7 wickets, thanks once again to Hayden who scored another half-century. Despite scoring 188/3 in 20 overs, the Super Kings went down on the last ball of the match to Kolkata Knight Riders, who were helped by fifties from Brendon McCullum and Brad Hodge. In their last league match, the Chennai Super Kings successfully defended a score of 116/9 against Kings XI Punjab. This still remains the record for the lowest successfully defended total in the history of IPL. This win also ended Punjab's chances of reaching the semi-finals.

The Super Kings finished with 17 points from 14 matches and earned a second place at the league table. At the semi-finals, the Super Kings met the Royal Challengers Bangalore who beat them by 6 wickets. CSK put up 146 on the board despite getting a brisk start from the openers. The Challengers chased down the total with 7 balls to spare after Manish Pandey and Rahul Dravid set the platform for the run-chase with scores of 48 and 44 respectively. Matthew Hayden of CSK, who scored 572 runs in 12 innings with 5 half-centuries at an average of 52 and strike-rate of 145, won the Orange Cap for the leading run-scorer of the season. He was also adjudged Player of the Tournament.Template:Fact

Season standings

(C) = Eventual champion; (R) = Runner-up.

Winner, runner-up and best-performing semi-finalist in the group stage qualify for the 2009 Champions League Twenty20.

Match log

No	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorecard Link
1	18 April	Mumbai Indians	Cape Town	Lost by 19 runs	Scorecard
2	20 April	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Port Elizabeth	Won by 92 runs, MoM – Template:Flagicon Muttiah Muralitharan 3/11	Scorecard
3	23 April	Delhi Daredevils	Durban	Lost by 9 runs	Scorecard
4	25 April	Kolkata Knight Riders	Cape Town	Match Abandoned without a ball bowled	Scorecard
5	27 April	Deccan Chargers	Durban	Lost by 6 wickets	Scorecard
6	30 April	Rajasthan Royals	Centurion	Won by 38 runs, MoM – Template:Flagicon Suresh Raina 98 (55)	Scorecard
7	2 May	Delhi Daredevils	Johannesburg	Won by 18 runs, MoM – Template:Flagicon Shadab Jakati 4/24	Scorecard
8	4 May	Deccan Chargers	East London	Won by 78 runs, MoM – Template:Flagicon Mahendra Singh Dhoni 58* (37)	Scorecard
9	7 May	Kings XI Punjab	Centurion	Won by 12 runs (D/L method), MoM – Template:Flagicon Matthew Hayden 89 (58)	Scorecard
10	9 May	Rajasthan Royals	Kimberley	Won by 7 wickets, MoM – Template:Flagicon S. Badrinath 59* (41)	Scorecard
11	14 May	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Durban	Lost by 2 wickets	Scorecard
12	16 May	Mumbai Indians	Port Elizabeth	Won by 7 wickets, MoM – Template:Flagicon Matthew Hayden 60 (57)	Scorecard
13	18 May	Kolkata Knight Riders	Centurion	Lost by 7 wickets	Scorecard
14	20 May	Kings XI Punjab	Durban	Won by 24 runs, MoM – Template:Flagicon Muttiah Muralitharan 2/8	Scorecard
15	23 May	Royal Challengers Bangalore (Semi Final)	Johannesburg	Lost by 6 wickets	Scorecard
Overall Record of 8 – 6 (One match no result) Failed to make Finals, ended 4/8

Most runs

Player	Innings	Runs	Average	Strike rate	Highest Score	100s	50s
Template:Sortname	12	572	52.00	144.81	89	0	5
Template:Sortname	14	434	31.00	140.90	98	0	2
Template:Sortname	13	332	41.50	127.20	58*	0	2
Template:Sortname	11	177	19.66	107.92	59*	0	1
Template:Sortname	9	142	15.77	112.69	36	0	0

Most wickets

Player	Innings	Wickets	Average	Economy rate	Best Bowling	4w
Template:Sortname	13	14	18.64	5.22	3/11	0
Template:Sortname	8	13	16.69	7.48	4/22	2
Template:Sortname	13	13	24.30	8.46	4/21	1
Template:Sortname	12	13	25.23	8.20	2/13	0
Template:Sortname	10	7	23.42	5.92	2/17	0