Chennai Super Kings are a franchise cricket team based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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30 Facts About Super Kings
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Former ICC Chairman N Srinivasan was the de facto owner of the Chennai Super Kings, by means of his position as the vice-chairman and managing director of India Cements Ltd.
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The Super Kings ended the league stage with eight wins from 14 games and finished third on the points table.
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The Super Kings faced the Rajasthan Royals in the final of the IPL at Mumbai.
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The Super Kings were without the services of Hussey who had decided to skip the IPL season to focus on The Ashes.
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The Super Kings finished with 17 points from 14 matches and earned a second place at the league table.
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In 2010, the Super Kings struggled in the first half of the regular season, winning only two matches out of seven.
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The Super Kings won the match by six wickets as they chased down the target of 193 with two balls to spare with skipper Dhoni scoring an unbeaten 54 from 29 balls.
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The Super Kings faced the tournament favourites Mumbai Indians at their home ground in the final.
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At the Champions League, the Super Kings were placed in Group A along with champions of Twenty20 competitions from Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
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The Super Kings topped the Group table with three wins and a Super Over defeat to the Victorian Bushrangers.
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The Super Kings played their first CLT20 final at Johannesburg where they beat the Chevrolet Warriors by 8 wickets, becoming the first IPL team to win the CLT20.
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At the final, the Super Kings were defeated by 5 wickets by the Kolkata Knight Riders who chased down the target of 191 with two balls to spare, thus denying the Super Kings a hat-trick of titles in the IPL.
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In 2013, the Super Kings strengthened their bowling attack by signing up five overseas and five Indian bowlers.
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The Super Kings gained direct qualification for the 2013 CLT20 which was held in India in September–October.
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The Super Kings started the season with a defeat in the opening match, after which they went on to win eight of their next nine matches to take the first spot in the points table.
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In 2015, before the players' auction, Chennai Super Kings gave away Ben Hilfenhaus, John Hastings, Vijay Shankar and David Hussey.
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The Super Kings became the first team to defeat an opposing team four times in a single season.
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Super Kings became the first ever CSK cricketer to score three consecutive fifties in the team's history.
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Home ground of the Super Kings is the historic M A Chidambaram Stadium located in Chennai.
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The Super Kings thus became the first team to win all their home games in a season and the first team to win the tournament at home.
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In 2014, Chennai Super Kings played all their home matches at Ranchi due to issues with Government of Tamil Nadu.
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In 2018, Chennai Super Kings managed to play a solitary home game against Kolkata Knight Riders due to members of a few fringe political parties staging protests outside the stadium as well as several parts of Chennai, demanding the IPL matches to be moved out of the city until the Cauvery Management Board was set up as directed by the honourable Supreme Court of India.
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Super Kings was the most expensive player in the IPL until 2009 when the Super Kings signed up English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff for $1.
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Super Kings was the first batsman from the Super Kings to score a century in the IPL.
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Chennai Super Kings said this partnership would allow them to connect with the team's pan-India fanbase through engagement initiatives.
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Super Kings have a large fan following across India, colloquially referred to as "Yellow Army".
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Meiyappan, who was the Team Principal of the Super Kings, was issued a summons by the Mumbai Police and on interrogation it was found that Meiyappan was in contact with bookies through actor Vindu Dara Singh.
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The Super Kings beat the Royal Challengers in the final of the 2011 IPL, the only meeting between the two teams at an IPL final.
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