2013 Chennai Super Kings season

Indian Premier League cricket team season July 2020 July 2020 Chennai Super Kings 2013 Stephen Fleming Mahendra Singh Dhoni Runners-up CLT20 Qualified Mike Hussey (732) Dwayne Bravo (32) Dwayne Bravo (12) MS Dhoni (12) 2012 2014 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.http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/589311.html CSK retains 16 players ESPNcricinfo 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.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/ipl/news/Stephen-Fleming-hints-Chennai-Super-Kings-may-not-go-for-foreign-players-in-IPL-auction/articleshow/18294639.cms https://archive.today/20130426160349/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-01/news/36683498_1_foreign-players-chennai-super-kings-csk live 2013-04-26 The Times of India Stephen Fleming before the 2013 auction 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 side, said was their sole objective.July 2020 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 West Indian quick Jason Holder, all at their respective base prices.http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/content/story/603255.html CSK in Auction 2013 ESPNcricinfo Post-auction, CSK first signed up the Indian U-19 all-rounder Baba Aparajith and also uncapped Tamil Nadu player Vijay Shankar.http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/content/story/603073.html Signing of Aparajith and Vijay Shankar ESPNcricinfo In a continuation of their auction strategy, Chennai Super Kings signed 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.http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/content/story/603502.html CSK signs five uncapped bowlers ESPNcricinfo Squad Players with international caps before the start of the 2013 IPL season are listed in bold. No.NameNationalityBirth dateBatting styleBowling styleNotes Batsmen03 Suresh Raina IND 2013 04 01 1986 11 27 y Left-handed Right-arm off break Vice-captain13 Francois du Plessis RSA 2013 04 01 1984 7 13 y Right-handed Right-arm leg break Overseas33 Subramaniam Badrinath IND 2013 04 01 1980 8 30 y Right-handed Right-arm off break 48 Michael Hussey AUS 2013 04 01 1975 5 27 y Left-handed Right-arm medium Overseas77 Anirudha Srikkanth IND 2013 04 01 1987 4 14 y Right-handed Right-arm off break All-rounders02 Chris Morris RSA 2013 04 01 1987 4 30 y Right-handed Right-arm medium Overseas05 Baba Aparajith IND 2013 04 01 1994 7 8 y Right-handed Right-arm off break 12 Ravindra Jadeja IND 2013 04 01 1988 12 6 y Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox 26 Vijay Shankar IND 2013 04 01 1991 1 26 y Right-handed Right-arm off break 47 Dwayne Bravo TRI 2013 04 01 1983 10 7 y Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas81 Albie Morkel RSA 2013 04 01 1981 6 10 y Left-handed Right arm medium-fast Overseas Wicket-keepers06 Wriddhiman Saha IND 2013 04 01 1984 10 24 y Right-handed  – 07 Mahendra Singh Dhoni IND 2013 04 01 1981 7 7 y Right-handed Right-arm medium Captain Bowlers01 R Karthikeyan IND 2013 04 01 1993 01 26 y Right-handed Slow left arm orthodox 04 Akila Dananjaya SL 2013 04 01 1993 10 4 y Left-handed Right-arm off break Overseas18 Mohit Sharma IND 2013 04 01 1988 09 18 y Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 22 Ronit More IND 2013 04 01 1992 02 11 y Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 27 Shadab Jakati IND 2013 04 01 1980 11 27 y Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox 28 Ben Hilfenhaus AUS 2013 04 01 1983 3 15 y Right-handed Right arm fast-medium Overseas29 Dirk Nannes AUS 2013 04 01 1976 5 16 y Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium Overseas43 Ankit Rajpoot IND 2013 04 01 1993 12 4 y Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 55 Ben Laughlin AUS 2013 04 01 1982 10 3 y Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas63 Imtiyaz Ahmed IND 2013 04 01 1985 11 10 y Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 92 Nuwan Kulasekara SRI 2013 04 01 1982 7 22 y Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas98 Jason Holder Barbados 2013 04 01 1991 11 5 y Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas99 Ravichandran Ashwin IND 2013 04 01 1986 9 17 y 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 he got out with Pollard taking the catch of MSD, once again proved the match winner for Mumbai Indianshttp://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/content/story/628430.html Pollard pips over Dhoni's Heroics ESPNcricinfo 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.http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/content/story/629128.html Super Kings demolishes listless Kings XI Punjab ESPNcricinfo 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 tweaking 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.http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/engine/match/598012.html Super Kings overcomes the Royal Challenge in Style ESPNcricinfo 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 !!"http://www.thehindu.com/sport/ipl2013/dhoni-picks-on-jadeja-for-twitter-treatment/article4616990.ece?homepage=true https://web.archive.org/web/20130418021920/http://www.thehindu.com/sport/ipl2013/dhoni-picks-on-jadeja-for-twitter-treatment/article4616990.ece?homepage=true dead 18 April 2013 Dhoni picks on Jadeja for Twitter treatment The Hindu Match IV: Playing their 3rd game at home and facing the Pune Warriors India, CSK played a disappointing game. CSK brought in Anirudha and Albie Morkel in the team for Mike Hussey and Mohit Sharma which was a controversial substitution. Pune dominated from the first with the power hitting of Aaron Finch and late surge from Steven Smith. Pune reached a competitive 159 and CSK lost the game by 24 runs.http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/engine/current/match/598015.html Super Kings demolished by their own over-confidence ESPNcricinfo Match V: CSK played against the 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 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 were dismissed for 83 runs. DD required 9 wins from their remaining 10 matches to improve their standing in the tournament.http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/content/story/630780.html Clinical Super Kings thump Delhi ESPNcricinfo 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 team 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 team 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.http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/engine/match/598026.html Super Kings triumphs the Royals in style ESPNcricinfo 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.http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/engine/match/598030.html Dhoni's smacking Kills Sunrisers ESPNcricinfo 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 astonishing strike rate of 161 earned him the MoM once again.http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/engine/match/598034.html Hussey shows his Master Class ESPNcricinfo Match log No.DateOpponentVenueResult Scorecard 1 2013 4 6 dmy Mumbai Indians Chennai Lost by 9 runs Scorecard 2 2013 4 10 dmy Kings XI Punjab Mohali Won by 10 wickets, MoM – Mike Hussey 86* (54) Scorecard 3 2013 4 13 dmy Royal Challengers Bangalore Chennai Won by 4 wickets, MoM – Ravindra Jadeja 38* (20) Scorecard 4 2013 4 15 dmy Pune Warriors India Chennai Lost by 24 runs Scorecard 5 2013 4 18 dmy Delhi Daredevils New Delhi Won by 86 runs, MoM – Mike Hussey 65* (50) Scorecard 6 2013 4 20 dmy Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata Won by 4 wickets, MoM - Ravindra Jadeja 36* (14) & 3/20 Scorecard 7 2013 4 22 dmy Rajasthan Royals Chennai Won by 5 wickets, MoM – Mike Hussey 88 (51) Scorecard 8 2013 4 25 dmy Sunrisers Hyderabad Chennai Won by 5 wickets, MoM – Mahendra Singh Dhoni 67* (37) Scorecard 9 2013 4 28 dmy Kolkata Knight Riders Chennai Won by 14 runs, MoM – Mike Hussey 95 (59) Scorecard 10 2013 4 30 dmy Pune Warriors India Pune Won by 37 runs; MoM – Mahendra Singh Dhoni 45* (16) Scorecard 11 2013 5 2 dmy Kings XI Punjab Chennai Won by 15 runs; MoM - Suresh Raina 100* (53) Scorecard 12 2013 5 5 dmy Mumbai Indians Mumbai Lost by 60 runs Scorecard 13 2013 5 8 dmy Sunrisers Hyderabad Hyderabad Won by 77 runs; MoM - Suresh Raina 99* (52) & 1/4 (1 Over) Scorecard 14 2013 5 12 dmy Rajasthan Royals Jaipur Lost by 5 wickets Scorecard 15 2013 5 14 dmy Delhi Daredevils Chennai Won by 33 runs; MoM – Mahendra Singh Dhoni 58* (35) Scorecard 16 2013 5 18 dmy Royal Challengers Bangalore Bengaluru Lost by 24 runs Scorecard 17 2013 5 21 dmy Mumbai Indians (Qualifier #1) New Delhi Won by 48 runs, MoM – Mike Hussey 86* (58) Scorecard 18 2013 5 26 dmy Mumbai Indians (Finals) Kolkata Lost by 23 runs Scorecard References Category:Chennai Super Kings seasons Category:2013 Indian Premier League