Chennai Super Kings
2011 season
CoachStephen Fleming
CaptainMahendra Singh Dhoni
IPLChampions
CLT20Group stage
Most runsMike Hussey (495)
Most wicketsRavichandran Ashwin (25)
Most catchesShadab Jakati (9)
Most wicket-keeping dismissalsMahendra Singh Dhoni (10)

Chennai Super Kings were one of the ten teams that took part in the 2011 Indian Premier League. They were captained for the fourth season in succession by Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The Super Kings had won both 2010 Indian Premier League and 2010 Champions League Twenty20 under Dhoni's captaincy.[1]

The Super Kings completed a hat-trick of titles by winning the 2011 Indian Premier League. Thus, they became the first team in the history of IPL to successfully defend their title. They also won all the matches held at their home ground in Chennai that season and created a new record of becoming the first IPL team to win all of its home games. With this, they earned a direct qualification for the main event of 2011 Champions League Twenty20 where they could not replicate similar consistency before crashing out of the event in the group stages.

Background

Chennai had a highly successful 2010 season where they emerged victorious in both Indian Premier League as well as Champions League Twenty20.[2] However, with the addition of two more teams in the IPL for the 2011 season, it was declared by the IPL Governing Council that each franchise can retain a maximum of four players of their squad for the 2011 season, only three of whom can be Indian players, and the rest of the international players would be put in the mega-auction. The spending power for each franchise at the mega-auction was restricted to $9 million.[3] The player retention clause also stated that if a franchise decides to retain four players, $4.5 million will be charged, leaving the franchise with only $4.5 million to spend at the auction.[4][5]

The Chennai franchise, keen to have the same set of core players, decided to retain the maximum number of players through the retention process. CSK retained captain MS Dhoni, vice-captain Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay and Albie Morkel for a total of $4.5 million.[6] This left them with the power of spending only $4.5 million at the mega-auction.[7] At the mega-auction which was held on 8 and 9 January 2011 in Bangalore, the Chennai franchise could successfully bid for 14 players, eight of whom were part of their 2010 squad.[8]

Chennai Super Kings also managed to get back three domestic players who had been a part of their team in the first three years in Shadab Jakati, Anirudha Srikkanth and Abhinav Mukund.[9] Apart from these three, they also signed contracts with Tamil Nadu players Yo Mahesh, K. Vasudevadas and Ganapathi Vignesh.[10]

Before the start of the IPL season, CSK signed up New Zealand pacer Tim Southee as a replacement to Ben Hilfenhaus who was ruled out of the tournament due to an injury.[11] They also appointed former Australian fast bowler Andy Bichel as their bowling coach, replacing Venkatesh Prasad who moved to the newly formed Kochi Tuskers Kerala franchise. Bichel had previously worked as Kolkata Knight Riders' bowling coach in 2009 before getting sacked after the team's disastrous season.[12]

List of players bought at the auction

Player[13][14] Cost[13][14]
MS Dhoni (retained) $1,800,000
Suresh Raina (retained) $1,300,000
Murali Vijay (retained) $900,000
Albie Morkel (retained) $500,000
Michael Hussey $425,000
Wriddhiman Saha $100,000
Dwayne Bravo $200,000
Doug Bollinger $700,000
Ravichandran Ashwin $850,000
Subramaniam Badrinath $850,000
Scott Styris $200,000
Ben Hilfenhaus $100,000
Joginder Sharma $150,000
Nuwan Kulasekara $100,000
Sudeep Tyagi $240,000
Suraj Randiv $80,000
George Bailey $50,000
Francois du Plessis $120,000

Squad

Players with international caps before the start of the 2011 IPL season are listed in bold.

No.[15] Name[15] Nationality[15] Birth date[15] Batting style[15] Bowling style[15] Notes[15]
Batsmen
03Suresh Raina India27 November 1986 (aged 24)Left-handedRight-arm off breakVice-captain
05George Bailey Australia7 September 1982 (aged 28)Right-handedRight arm mediumOverseas
08Murali Vijay India1 April 1984 (aged 27)Right-handedRight-arm off break
13Francois du Plessis South Africa13 July 1984 (aged 26)Right-handedRight-arm leg breakOverseas
33Subramaniam Badrinath India30 August 1980 (aged 30)Right-handedRight-arm off break
35K. Vasudevadas India26 January 1985 (aged 26)Left-handedRight-arm leg break
48Michael Hussey Australia27 May 1975 (aged 35)Left-handedRight-arm mediumOverseas
77Anirudha Srikkanth India14 April 1987 (aged 23)Right-handedRight-arm off break
90Abhinav Mukund India6 January 1990 (aged 21)Left-handedRight-arm leg break
All-rounders
47Dwayne Bravo Trinidad and Tobago7 October 1983 (aged 27)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastOverseas
56Scott Styris New Zealand10 July 1975 (aged 35)Right-handedRight-arm mediumOverseas
81Albie Morkel South Africa10 June 1981 (aged 29)Left-handedRight arm medium-fastOverseas
24Ganapathi Vignesh India11 September 1981 (aged 29)Right-handedRight arm medium-fast.
Wicket-keepers
06Wriddhiman Saha India24 October 1984 (aged 26)Right-handed
07Mahendra Singh Dhoni India7 July 1981 (aged 29)Right-handedRight-arm mediumCaptain
Bowlers
04Doug Bollinger Australia24 July 1981 (aged 29)Left-handedLeft-arm fast-mediumOverseas
09Yo Mahesh India21 December 1987 (aged 23)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
17Sudeep Tyagi India19 September 1987 (aged 23)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
23Joginder Sharma India23 October 1983 (aged 27)Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
27Shadab Jakati India27 November 1980 (aged 30)Left-handedSlow left arm orthodox
38Tim Southee New Zealand11 December 1988 (aged 22)Right-handedRight arm fast-mediumOverseas
88Suraj Randiv Sri Lanka30 January 1985 (aged 26)Right-handedRight-arm off breakOverseas
92Nuwan Kulasekara Sri Lanka22 July 1982 (aged 28)Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumOverseas
99Ravichandran Ashwin India17 September 1986 (aged 24)Right-handedRight-arm off break

Indian Premier League

Michael Hussey took over from the retired Matthew Hayden as CSK's opener in 2011.

The Super Kings started their IPL 2011 campaign with a two-run win against the Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai. Opener Anirudha Srikkanth won the Man of the match for scoring 64. But the Super Kings lost their second game of the season to the Kings XI Punjab, despite setting KXIP a target of 189, after Punjab's Paul Valthaty hit the first century of the season (an unbeaten 62-ball 120). Michael Hussey's 83* took them to a comfortable win over the Royal Challengers Bangalore before a defeat at the hands of the Kochi Tuskers Kerala in a rain-affected match at the latter's home ground. This match was followed by another close match against Mumbai Indians, which the Super Kings lost by 8 runs. Mumbai's spinner Harbhajan Singh achieved his career-best T20 figures of 5/18 in 4 overs during the match. However, in their next match at home against Pune Warriors India, Michael Hussey scored a half-century and the bowlers bowled economically to defend a total of 142. Two days later, against the same team in an away match, a spell of 3/21 by the Man of the match Doug Bollinger and a match-winning partnership between Subramaniam Badrinath and Suresh Raina saw the Super Kings complete a double over the Pune team. Against the Deccan Chargers, they registered their third straight win thanks to the all-round effort of Albie Morkel who took three wickets and then scored 19 from just 6 deliveries. Bollinger and Jakati also picked up two wickets each and bowled economically which helped them to overcome a quickfire half-century from the Chargers' opener Sunny Sohal.[16] They secured their fifth straight home victory in their next match against the Rajasthan Royals. Chasing a modest target of 148, Hussey, who struck 79* off just 55 balls, and Raina, 61* off 51 balls, put on an unbeaten century partnership to take Chennai to a comfortable eight-wicket win.[17] This was followed by a defeat to the Kolkata Knight Riders in a rain-affected match at the Eden Gardens. A couple of days later, their batting came good in an away game against the Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur, where all the top-four batsmen scored 40-plus runs helping them win by 63 runs. The Chennai Super Kings extended their unbeaten home record by defeating the Delhi Daredevils and moving to the top of the table. MS Dhoni won the Man of the match for his knock of 63* (31), which was supported by Badrinath who also struck a half-century.[18] The Super Kings played their last home game against the Kochi Tuskers Kerala and won it by eleven runs. Wriddhiman Saha top-scored for CSK with a resilient 46*. With this win, they created a new record of becoming the first team to win all their home matches in the history of the Indian Premier League.[19] They faced the toppers of the points table, Royal Challengers Bangalore in their final league game at Bangalore. Dhoni's innings of 70* (40) was responsible for Chennai's total of 128/8 which was chased down with ease by the home side with Chris Gayle scoring an unbeaten half-century.[20] The Super Kings finished second on the league table with 18 points from 14 matches as they had a better net run rate than the Mumbai Indians who also had the same number of points.

The Chennai team faced the table-toppers Royal Challengers in the first Qualifier at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Dhoni, who won the toss, asked RCB to bat first. RCB lost Chris Gayle early but managed to put on 175 on board riding on an unbeaten 70 by Virat Kohli. Chennai's run-chase got off to a disastrous start as both the openers were dismissed within the second over. But then, Suresh Raina put on crucial fifty-run partnerships with Badrinath and Dhoni, taking CSK closer to the target. But after the dismissal of Dhoni, 45 was required from 20 deliveries and a victory seemed improbable. Then Albie Morkel hit 28* from just 10 deliveries which took the Super Kings to a six-wicket win with two balls to spare. Raina won the Man of the match for his unbeaten 73. The win took them to the finals which was to be played at their home ground. This was the third time in four seasons that they had entered the finals of the IPL.[21] They met the same team, Royal Challengers Bangalore at the final, after RCB defeated the Mumbai Indians in the second Qualifier. CSK won the toss once again, this time elected to bat first. They got off to a brisk start as openers Michael Hussey and Murali Vijay shared a record first-wicket partnership of 159 runs before Hussey got out for 63. Vijay continued his big hitting and struck four fours and six sixes in his innings of 95. Chennai ended their 20 overs on 202/5, which was the highest total at the venue in that season. R Ashwin struck in the very first over of the RCB innings, removing Gayle for a duck. The Super Kings bowlers kept picking up wickets regularly in the innings and eventually won the game by 63 runs and were crowned champions for the second time in succession. Murali Vijay was declared the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings.[22]

Thus, the 2011 season ended up as Chennai's most successful season because, not only did they successfully defend the title, but also assert their dominance in the league with a win percentage of 64.11, their highest in four seasons. They maintained an absolute home record in the season and became the first team to win the tournament at home. They also won the Fairplay Award for the third time in four years.[23]

Season standings

Pos Grp Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR
1 B Royal Challengers Bangalore (R) 14 9 4 1 19 0.326
2 B Chennai Super Kings (C) 14 9 5 0 18 0.443
3 A Mumbai Indians (3) 14 9 5 0 18 0.040
4 B Kolkata Knight Riders (4) 14 8 6 0 16 0.433
5 A Kings XI Punjab 14 7 7 0 14 −0.051
6 B Rajasthan Royals 14 6 7 1 13 −0.691
7 A Deccan Chargers 14 6 8 0 12 0.222
8 B Kochi Tuskers Kerala 14 6 8 0 12 −0.214
9 A Pune Warriors India 14 4 9 1 9 −0.134
10 A Delhi Daredevils 14 4 9 1 9 −0.448
Source: ESPNcricinfo

Note: Top four teams qualified for the playoffs.
The top three teams also qualified for the Champions League Twenty20 while the fourth team played in the qualifying stage.

Match log

No. Date Opponent Venue Result Scorecard Link
18 AprilKolkata Knight RidersChennaiWon by 2 runs, MoM Anirudha Srikkanth 64 (55)Scorecard
213 AprilKings XI PunjabMohaliLost by 6 wicketsScorecard
316 AprilRoyal Challengers BangaloreChennaiWon by 21 runs, MoM Michael Hussey 83* (56)Scorecard
418 AprilKochi Tuskers KeralaKochiLost by 7 wicketsScorecard
522 AprilMumbai IndiansMumbaiLost by 8 runs Scorecard
625 AprilPune Warriors IndiaChennaiWon by 25 runs, MoM Michael Hussey 61 (48)Scorecard
727 AprilPune Warriors IndiaNavi MumbaiWon by 8 wickets, MoM Doug Bollinger 3/21 (4 overs)

Scorecard

81 MayDeccan ChargersChennaiWon by 19 runs, MoM Albie Morkel 19 (6) and 3/38 (4 overs)Scorecard
94 MayRajasthan RoyalsChennaiWon by 8 wickets, MoM Michael Hussey 79* (55)Scorecard
107 MayKolkata Knight RidersKolkataLost by 10 runsScorecard
119 MayRajasthan RoyalsJaipurWon by 63 runs, MoM Murali Vijay 53 (40)Scorecard
1212 MayDelhi DaredevilsChennaiWon by 18 runs, MoM Mahendra Singh Dhoni 63* (31)Scorecard
1318 MayKochi Tuskers KeralaChennaiWon by 11 runs, MoM Wriddhiman Saha 46* (33)Scorecard
1422 MayRoyal Challengers BangaloreBangaloreLost by 8 wicketsScorecard
1524 MayRoyal Challengers Bangalore (Qualifier #1)MumbaiWon by 6 wickets, MoM Suresh Raina 73* (50)Scorecard
1628 MayRoyal Challengers Bangalore (Final)ChennaiWon by 58 runs, MoM Murali Vijay 95 (52)Scorecard
Overall record: 11– 5. Champions. Qualified for 2011 Champions League Twenty20
Hussey scored the most runs for CSK

Most runs

PlayerInningsRunsAverageStrike rateHighest Score50s
Michael Hussey1449241.00118.8483*04
Suresh Raina1643831.28134.7673*04
Murali Vijay1643427.12128.029503
Subramaniam Badrinath1339656.57126.5171*05
MS Dhoni1339243.55158.7070*02

Most wickets

PlayerInningsWicketsAverageEconomy rateBest Bowling4w
Ravichandran Ashwin162019.406.153/160
Doug Bollinger131719.357.003/210
Albie Morkel141525.468.483/290
Shadab Jakati141033.607.602/210
Dwayne Bravo6626.167.852/210

Champions League Twenty20

After finishing as the 2011 Indian Premier League champions, the team qualified for the 2011 Champions League Twenty20. They had previously qualified for the 2008 Season which was subsequently cancelled and also the 2010 Season which they went on to become the Champions.[24]

Starting as the defending champions, the Super Kings faced IPL rivals Mumbai Indians in their first game. Mumbai won the close match mainly due to Lasith Malinga's batting performances towards the end. Chennai were involved in another close match and ended up victorious against the South African side of Cape Cobras with a man of the match performance from Dwayne Bravo. However Chennai's lost their next match to Trinidad and Tobago. CSK then faced the 2009 champions NSW Blues in a must-win encounter. CSK were eliminated after a decisive win for the visitors who were led by a hundred from David Warner.[25]

In the end, Chennai finished at the bottom of the Group with just 2 points while IPL counterparts Mumbai Indians and NSW Blues proceeded to the knockout phase.[26]

Season standings

Group A
Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR
New South Wales Blues 43106+0.627
Mumbai Indians 42115–0.280
Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel 42204+0.176
Cape Cobras 41213+0.229
Chennai Super Kings 41302–0.712
Teams marked  *  progressed to the next stage of the competition.
Team marked    were eliminated from the competition.

Match log

Date Opponent Venue Result Scorecard Link
24 SeptemberMumbai IndiansChennaiLost by 3 wicketsScorecard
28 SeptemberCape CobrasChennaiWon by 4 wickets, MoM – Dwayne Bravo 46* (25) and 2/23Scorecard
2 OctoberTrinidad and TobagoChennaiLost by 12 runsScorecard
4 OctoberNew South WalesChennaiLost by 46 runsScorecard
Overall Record of 1 – 3

Failed to make Semi-Finals

Most runs

PlayerInningsRunsAverageStrike rateHighest Score100s50s
Michael Hussey416040.00133.338101
Dwayne Bravo39494.00162.0646*00
Suresh Raina46817.00109.672800

Most wickets

PlayerInningsWicketsAverageEconomy rateBest Bowling4w
Ravichandran Ashwin4521.205.752/230
Dwayne Bravo4522.607.532/220
Doug Bollinger4528.009.433/300

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