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Welcome First Time Visitors 2008-03-14 06:10:00 Welcome to Chennai Super Kings fans and supporters who may have found this blog through Web Search or other links. First
ly, My name is Robin Samuel and my love relationship with Chennai Super Kings started from day one. I blog both here at Fan Site of Chennai Super Kings and also at India Centricity. Fan Site of Chennai Super Kings is a blog that is devoted to its support for Chennai Super Kings in the blogging world and also promises to be the one-stop for all news, match previews, analysis regarding Chennai Super Kings. Incidentally Fan Site of Chennai Super Kings is the first fan blog that sprang up to support Chennai Super Kings, the Chennai franchise of Indian Premier League. You may want to check out the Chennai Super Kings' Fixtures and Squad for this year's Indian Premier Read more:Welcome
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News Snippets 2008-03-13 14:26:00 Back in College: Chennai Super Kings (probable) skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has already made his mark on the cricket field. Now the wicketkeeper/batsman wants to get back to academics and complete his graduation. Read the whole story @ ibnliveAustralians in IPL: The Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) has said the Australian players are likely to be allowed to participate in the initial stages(first 14 to 16 days) of the Indian Premier League. It is great news since we could see Australian stars - Mathew Hayden and Michael Hussey in action.
India Cements Ltd 2008-03-13 13:52:00 I first heard about 'India
Cements Ltd' when they won the ownership of Chennai franchise of Indian Premier League. Since most of the fans would not know much about the owner of Chennai Super Kings, i took the responsibility to do some digging about India Cements Ltd(ICL). Company Highlights India Cements Ltd was established in 1946 and the first plant was setup at Sankarnagar in Tamil Nadu in 1949 Company is the largest producer of cement in South India Brands Owned by the company - Sankar Super Power, Coromandel Super Power and Raasi Super Power The company is headed by Mr.N.Srinivasan, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, the son of late Shri T.S.Narayanaswami, Founder of The India Cements Ltd. Cricket Connections 1. Management Company's ties with Cricket starts from its Managing
Chennai Super Kings Squad 2008-03-11 15:32:00 No Players Country 1 MS Dhoni India 2 Muttiah Muralitharan Sri Lanka 3 Matthew Hayden Australia 4 Jacob Oram New Zealand 5 Stephen Fleming New Zealand 6 Parthiv Patel India 7 Joginder Sharma India 8 Albie Morkel South Africa 9 Suresh Raina India 10 Makhaya Ntini South Africa 11 Michael Hussey Australia 12 Sudeep Tyagi India 13 R. Ashwin India 14 Srikkanth Anirudha India Read more:Chennai
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News Snippets 2008-03-11 15:23:00 U-19 Players: As confirmed earlier this blog, both Napoleon Einstein and Abhinav Mukund have been picked by Chennai Super Kings in today's auction. But the Surprise was the addition of Leg Spinner from Vidarbha - Viraj Kadbe. Probable XI: Cricinfo's probable XI for Chennai Super Kings: 1 Matthew Hayden, 2 Stephen Fleming/ Abhinav Mukund, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Jacob Oram, 5 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Michael Hussey/S Badrinath, 7 Albie Morkel/Parthiv Patel, 8 Joginder Sharma, 9 Napoleon Einstein, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan/ Makhaya Ntini, 11 Sudeep Tyagi/R Ashwin
News Snippets 2008-03-10 16:06:00 Shadab Jakati: I should have wrote about this earlier. Goa's left arm spinner, Shadab Jakati was signed up by Chennai Super Kings, a few days earlier. He now joins Uttar Pradesh's Sudeep Tyagi, R Ashwin, Srikkanth Anirudha and S Badrinath in the list of interim signings by Chennai Super Kings.Tommy Simsek: Sri Lanka team physio Tommy Simsek joins the support staff of Chennai Super Kings that already has Kepler Wessels as coach and Gregory King as physical trainer. [News Source: Hindu]
Second IPL Auction Today 2008-03-10 14:28:00 The second IPL Auction
is happening today(March 11, 2008). But with the leftover amount from the first auction ($23,750), Chennai Super Kings could not afford to make any purchases. So Chennai Super Kings' focus today would be on Under-19 Players, rather than on the international players. [To know more about draft system followed for picking U-19 players, read Cricinfo]As an representative of the Chennai Super Kings representative shared in Cricinfo,"We don't have any money left to buy any big player. And we have quite a few foreign players already in our squad and only four can play can anyway. So we'll go after the U-19 players."
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A Firm 'No' to Private Equity 2008-03-09 07:22:00 When Financial Express reported India Cements Limited's Plans to list Chennai Super Kings in the next three years, one of my interpretation was that India Cements Limited(ICL) is sending signals to PrivateEquity
Investors for diluting their stake. So I was naturally surprised when I read about India Cements Limited's unwillingness to dilute their equity stake(in Times of India article). Most of the management gurus teach that the natural path of progression for any start-up is to raise funds from Private Equity
and then approach the public market(Stock Market). 4 reasons why ICL is not following the regular text book model Confidence of ICL on the success of the business model of Chennai Super Kings Huge Reserves of ICL, thanks to buoyant Indian economy Generally Private Equ
Ready for Chennai Super Kings IPO??? 2008-03-08 05:33:00 Financial Express reports that India Cements Limited(ICL) is planning to list ChennaiSuper
Kings in the next two years. ICL's Plan is based on the belief and the expectation that the franchise will grow substantially in the years to come and would become a major league on the lines of European and US leagues. N. Srinivasan, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of India Cements Limited said in the interview, “Our aim is to make the league as one of the leading league in India on the lines of Europe and the US such as United Manchester over a period of time. We are excited over the response from the public for our franchisee and the company received over 26,000 suggestions to name the franchisee,” “Ultimately our franchisee will be made to grow substantially in terms of volume and
Future Stars - Napoleon and Mukund 2008-03-08 05:00:00 U-19 Players - Napoleon
Einstein and Abhinav Mukund, who were part of the U-19 world cup winning squad, share their experiences with Ergo, the all-colour tabloid from the publication house of 'The Hindu'. Both of them confirmed that a top TNCA official told them that they were going to play for the Super Kings. But the contract has not been finalized yet. Napoleon shares, "I am looking forward to play with Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Makhaya Nitini. It will be terrific to bowl to someone like Tendulkar or Yuvraj” Hope these young stars from Chennai get their opportunity and shine for the Chennai Super Kings... :)
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Is Kepler Wessels the right coach for Chennai Super Kings? 2008-03-05 07:47:00 Do you think Kepler Wessels was the right choice for ChennaiSuper
Kings?Especially considering the fact that Robin Singh, a Chennai-ite was poached by Hyderabad team. V.B. Chandrasekhar in Hindu, reasons out the logic for the selection of Kepler Wessels "We wanted somebody who would keep the focus on cricket, be a good task master, and help us win the tournament," Interestingly, Hindu mentions that V.B. Chandrasekhar would be the Assistant Coach of the team. An interesting and a good move considering the fact that it was Chandrasekhar who handpicked most of the team and Chandrasekhar's intimate knowledge of Indian conditions. Hindu also reports that four internationals were considered for the job of Coach. (Richard Pybus, who worked with the Pakistan national team, narrowly missed the o
News Snippets 2008-03-05 04:51:00 March 5, 2008: New U-22 Players: Hindu reports that Tamil Nadu off-spinner R. Ashwin and Opening batsman S. Anirudha have been contracted to represent the Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL). [Anirudha is the son of K Srikkanth, Ambassador of Chennai Super Kings]. With the addition of these two players, the Chennai Super Kings has already fulfilled the condition of having a minimum of four under 22 players in the team. [Other two - Suresh Raina and Sudeep Tyagi]. Coach of Chennai Super Kings: Hindu also reports that Kepler Wessels, the former South African captain, has been hired to coach the Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Chennai Super Kings IPO in 2 years: Financial Express reports that India Cements Limited (ICL) which won the bid of India
Chennai Super Kings Fans Blog Directory!! 2008-03-01 04:19:00 As an ongoing project, I am collecting the ChennaiSuper
Kings Fans' Blog... So if we have one, please post your url in the comments section.. I would be giving you a link in my side bar... Fans' Blog I know until now: Ottayan Super Kings Fan Club Why I am doing it? To provide a one stop for Chennai Super King Fans searching for Chennai Super Kings Fans' Blog to follow. To provide some link juice toe each other.
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U-19 Players for Local Franchises Only 2008-02-25 04:27:00 Cricinfo reports that "Each of the franchises in the Indian Premier League will get the first option for picking Under-19 players from their own catchment areas, the Indian board has said. The decision comes in the wake of franchises voicing concerns over player-poaching, with local players being lured by other teams." VB Chandrashekar, the selector for the Chennai Super Kings was upbeat on hearing the news. But he wished that it would have been great if the ruling covered U-22 players as well.
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Cheerleaders for Chennai Super Kings 2008-02-24 14:45:00 It is a rare phenomenon in marketing in which a product/service is successfully able to expand its category. To be successful, Indian Premier League has to achieve this rare phenomenon by expanding its category from Sports to Entertainment. ICL has already shown the way in this regard and Cricinfo list packaged entertainment as one of the key reasons for the success of ICL in Chandigarh. Hope ChennaiSuper
Kings, Chennai Franchise of Indian Premier League also follows suit . If it does: We can expect dance and music shows by famous Kollywood stars during the breaks. If India Cements has the courage, it may even bring some half-clad cheer leaders(mostly foreign exported) to M.A. Chidambaram Stadium[:)]. [Remember ICL has already shown the path by having cheerleaders dancing on the either Read more:Cheerleaders
IPL Auction - Commercialization of Cricket 2008-02-24 06:19:00 When Chennai Super Kings snapped up Dhoni for 6 crore rupees, every Tom, Dick and Harry in India started complaining about the crazy commercialization of cricket. Even politicians joined this critics group. Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray retorted that Indian Premier League is 'a gambling game of industrialists' and asked BCCI President Sharad Pawar to stop it.Yeah. Indian Premier League is commercialization of cricket. "But is this commercialization bad for cricket?"... as these self-appointed critics wants us to believe. Amit Verma of India Uncut Blog correctly reasons out that "There is nothing wrong in commercialization." A Must Read Article for all cricket fans.
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News Snippets 2008-02-23 14:19:00 February 23, 2008:2 out of 2: Mr. Srinivasan, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of India Cements confides to Hindu that Chennai Super Kings targeted Mahendra Singh Dhoni and off-spinner Muralitharan and picked them both in the first set of auction. In his interview, he was all praise for Dhoni, pointing out Dhoni's three-in-one abilities - an outstanding cricketer, a match winner and a captain.Wait: Cricinfo reports that "With a dog fight going on between different frachises to sign promising junior cricketers, the Indian board has come with a clear intstruction to all junior cricketers. The BCCI has asked them not to sign up for the Indian Premier league on an individual basis until they decide on a procedure to adopt for the same.Catchment Players: Cricinfo in their article about play
Advertisements... 2008-02-22 14:46:00 After the grand auction on Wednesday, IPL franchises have started their brand building exercises. All the marketing managers would understand the need of any new sports franchise,etc to concentrate on promotions, advertisements so that they could create a support base - life blood for any franchise. And Chennai Super Kings management also understand this(thankfully). And they are first off the block with regard to adverstisements.Financial express reports that Chennai Super Kings has signed the local ad agency - Salt advertisement agency to handle its ad campaigns. First of the series of ads reads “8 teams, 44 days and 59 matches--one victory-name Chennai Super Kings.”...Chennai Super Kings! Hope you stay true to those words...
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Sudeep Tyagi may join Chennai Super Kings 2008-02-22 14:28:00 After the auction of the big guns, all the IPL franchises are now busy, signing up promising young cricketers, especially for under-22 bracket. According to indiatimes article, Delhi Daredevils Bangalore Royal Challengers have already signed UP's all rounder, Praveen Kumar, who is now playing in the CB series and Delhi Daredevils are all set to sign UP's southpaw opener, Tanmay Srivstava, a member of the U-19 World Cup squad. .
Another promising young bowler from UP, Sudeep Tyagi, who was the highest wicket-taker in the just-concluded Ranji season, has confirmed that "there is a strong possibility of him playing for ChennaiSuper
Kings". He has received offers from Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai and still has not made a concrete decision.
With no academy-backed training, without a reput
What is there in a name??? 2008-02-22 13:10:00 Krish Ashok on his Chennai Metroblog column, is asking his readers whether Super Kings is the best name that Chennai could come up with. He makes a good point that the name "Chennai Super Kings" rhymes "Wills Filter Kings". Because of which the chances that it will be associated with cigarettes rather than a sports team is pretty high. But what is there in a name???. In 2 or 3 years time, nobody will care about why Chennai Franchise of Indian Premier League was not given some other 'exotic' name.Yeah! I accept the fact that 'Chennai Super Stars' and 'Chennai Veerans' are much better names than Chennai Super Kings. But if we look at the name with the logo (Lion, the King of the Jungle in minimalist style foregrounded by the name in solid lettering), it makes much more sense for the word 'K
IPL Auction 2008-02-22 12:45:00 Times Now has an in depth report on how each round of auction took place on Hilton Towers. Read the article here.
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Robin Singh is Poached!!! 2008-02-21 14:50:00 At least a few of the cricket fans of Chennai(like me) would have been disappointed on hearing the news that son of the soil, Dinesh Karthik is not part of Chennai Super Kings Squad. (Read my disappointment on hearing the news @ Where is Dinesh Karthik???). And their misery would have been increased further on hearing the news that RobinSingh
, another ex-Tamilnadu cricket team player(residing in Chennai) was poached by the rival team from Hyderabad.Hyderabad gives its reasons for signing Robin Singh at Cricinfo,'Hyderabad, who bought Australian allrounder Andrew Symonds for US$1.35 million, said Singh was their "logical choice" for coach. "Former Hyderabad offspinner and domestic veteran Kanwaljit Singh will assist Robin," Mohanraj, a former Ranji opener for Hyderabad, said. "Robin is a Read more:Poached
Chennai Super Kings Squad - Analysis 2008-02-21 10:21:00 The dust has settled down after the bidding frenzy yesterday. And for ChennaiSuper
Kings fans, it is time to analyse the players picked by VB Chandrasekhar, the chief selector for Chennai Super Kings. [Sadly only cricinfo has already made an analysis - 'How the teams stack up', while the other newspapers and web portals are still screaming "Chennai Super Kings snaps up Dhoni for $1.5 Million".]Indian Players: MS Dhoni, Parthiv Patel, Joginder Sharma and Suresh RainaMS Dhoni:According to me, MS Dhoni was a fine choice and deserves the huge pay package. Read my reasoning @ 10 Reasons why Chennai Super Kings bought Dhoni. He also provides the opportunity for the team to be built around him.Verdict: Excellent DecisionJoginder Sharma: A bowling all rounder, he became an immediate hero in man Read more:Squad
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Chennai Super Kings's IPL Schedule 2008-02-20 18:02:00 Date Time Opposition Home/Away Apr 19 3 PM Mohali Away Apr 23 7 PM Mumbai Home Apr 26 8 PM Kolkata Home Apr 28 7 PM Bangalore Away May 2 7 PM Delhi Home May 4 8 PM Jaipur Away May 6 7 PM Hyderabad Home May 8 3 PM Delhi Away May 10 8 PM Mohali Home May 14 3 PM Mumbai Away May 18 8 PM Kolkata Away May 21 8 PM Bangalore Home Read more:Chennai
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10 Reasons why Chennai Super Kings bought Dhoni for 6 Crore rupees 2008-02-20 16:34:00 Around 80 of the World's best cricket players fetched around 42 million USD, but the headlines remained the same in all the news papers. Hot news was 'ChennaiSuper
Kings spending 1.5 million USD from its coffers for Dhoni
'. Never before a cricket player has made such a huge amount from a single tournament.A Few reasons why Chennai Super Kings bought Dhoni Brand Value/Star Power of Dhoni: Chennai, without an icon on its own, did not have any star player who can draw crowds. Dhoni plugs this gap beautifully. Being the one day team captain and future test captain, Dhoni is going to be on the eyes of the Indian Public for a long time. So he provides Chennai Super Kings an opportunity to ride on his fame.Wicket Keeper Batsmen are a rare breed as shown by the fact tha Read more:Reasons
News Snippets 2008-03-21 13:48:00 Expected News: Dhoni has been officially announced as captain of the Chennai Super Kings team. [No Surprises there]Chandrasekhar promises Surprises: I was thinking that L Balaji was the last member to be included in the Chennai Super Kings team. But V B Chandrasekhar, Head of Cricketing matters in Chennai Super Kings disagress and promises two or three more surprises in the composition. [Source: Hindu]Revenue: Whatever people may say, all the IPL franchise owners are here for money. And ICL is no exception. It is looking at the revenues coming from sponsorship of T-shirts and caps, advertisements on helmets, shared revenue from TV rights and the BCCI central pool, gates collection and merchandising of other items to break even in the first year itself.
L Balaji joins Chennai Super Kings 2008-03-21 13:03:00 L Balaji
, the former India fast bowler, who was out of competitive cricket with a stress fracture for nearly one and a half years, has become the last member to be included in the ChennaiSuper
Kings squad for the Indian Premier League. If L. Balaji is fit and is able to pick out the form of his earlier days, he would be a huge asset to Chennai Super Kings team. As V.B. Chandrasekhar rightly pointed out,"When he’s fit and bowling well, it’s good for us, while the IPL is a platform to continue his comeback.”Vijay Hazare Trophy(all-India one-day Knockout tournament) provides us the perfect opportunity to assess his form and fitness before the crucial Indian Premier League matches. With the inclusion of Balaji, Chennai Super Kings has an unbeatable team combination. Now it is time for t
Nayanthara joins Chennai Super Kings as Star Ambassador 2008-03-21 07:07:00 With the recent signing of Vijay and Nayantara as Star Ambassador
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Kings, the management team of CSK shows their intent of making Indian Premier League a huge success in Tamil Nadu. Similar to Vijay's signing, Chennai Super Kings showed that the management and the fans think alike with regard to glamour quotient of Chennai Super Kings too.In a poll run on this blog for 'Cheerleader of Chennai Super kings', Nayantara and Shriya Saran were the hot favorites and were leading the poll with 21% of total votes. And Chennai Super Kings management seems to have heard this.Anyway! India Cements Limited pulled a coup by signing two of Tamil Nadu's hottest stars to endorse Chennai Super Kings. Chak De Chennai Super Kings!
Vijay joins Chennai Super Kings as its Star Ambassador 2008-03-20 00:57:00 Vijay is one of my favorite Tamil actors. ChennaiSuper
Kings is my favorite IPL team. So the new relationship between them is the greatest news i have heard from the management team of Chennai Super Kings. It made me happier than the $ 1.5 Million purchase of Dhoni [though Chennai Super Kings had more than 10 reasons to do so]But not all seem to share my happiness. Chennai Online, on its editorial, has chided Chennai Super Kings for the disgrace it brought by bonding up with two Kollywood heartthrobs. They say bringing in Vijay shows the total lack of confidence. But their only valid point is that - 'With Dhoni being India's biggest ambassador, What is the need for another ambassador?'But Dhoni being India's Brand ambassador(Generic) could not pep up the Tamil(Specific) crowds, especiall Read more:Ambassador
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Theme Song - Chennai Super Kings 2008-03-23 13:32:00 Theme song of a sports team plays a major role in stirring up the passion of its fans. All the fans of ChennaiSuper
Kings know this and would have the expectation that the theme song of CSK should not only be great, but also should be able to inspire both fans and players. It seems the same care has been shown by the management of Chennai Super Kings team too. India Cements Limited has brought in the best available talent for composing the theme song of Chennai Super Kings. Ergo reports that 20 year old wonder GV Prakash(nephew of veteran film composer A.R. Rahman) is going to be the music director for the theme song while Vairamuthu is the lyricist. Since Vairamuthu is the lyricist, we can be rest assured that the theme song would be in Tamil.
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