Champions Chennai Super Kings Retain IPL Title

Chennai Super Kings played  as a champion to win their second consecutive IPL title. Chennai Super Kings who had remain unbeaten at home this season maintained their invincible record at home to defeat Royal Challengers Bangalore and emerge as IPL 2011 champions.

Chennai Super Kings captain M.S.Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat. The openers Michael Hussey and Murali Vijay, put on 159 runs (in just 89 balls) in an impressive display of power hitting to practically bat RCB out of the match. Chennai Super Kings went on to score 205 for five in their stipulated 20 overs.

Royal Challengers Bangalore had all hopes on Chris Gayle to make any impact but R Ashwin dismissed the in-form Chris Gayle for a duck. Royal Challengers Bangalore kept losing wickets at regular interval and could only score 147 for 8 off their stipulated 20 overs.

Chennai Super Kings Crush Rajsthan Royals At Jaipur

Chennai Super Kings marched to second spot in the points table as they defeated Rajastan Royals at Jaipur. A powerful batting display from Chennai saw them score 196/3 from their allotted 20 overs with contributions from Mike Hussey, Vijay, Raina and Dhoni. Te defeat have left Rajasthan in a difficult situation where they need to win all their remaining matches to qualify for the play-offs.

Chennai's professional display meant that Rajasthan Royal's intimidating home record was broken and the home team was defeated at Sawai Mansingh Stadium , Jaipur only for the 2nd time this year.

After Chennai Super Kings batsmen got the runs the bowler's came to the party and dismissed Rajasthan Royals for only 133 helping Chennai score a 64 runs win which lifted them to the second spot in the points table.

Chennai Super Kings Outclass Pune Warriors

Chennai Super Kings recorded their 3rd win of IPL 2011 thanks to some incisive bowling by Albie Morkel and R.Ashwin along with great display of ground fielding. Chennai successfully defended a score of 142 defeating Pune Warriors India by 25 runs played at the MA Chidambaram stadium.

Chennai Super Kings who are the defending champions have looked out of form this season and their bowling has been a real area of concern. But yesterday the Chennai bowlers assisted  by some remarkable fielding successfully defended a modest yet competitive score of 142 to take their team to the fourth spot on the points table.

Champions Chennai Look To Extend Domination

Chennai Super Kings have had an exception 2010 when they won both the IPL as well as the Champions League T20 championships. The world cup winning team captain M.S. Dhoni also had an exceptional 12 months as a captain where he lead Chennai Super Kings to IPL and Champions League T20 and then recently led India to World Cup glory at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. The IPL auction held in January saw other IPL teams making major changes to their teams by buying big names in T20 but Chennai did their best to retain many of their players. They held back four best players, M.S. Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay and Albie Mrkel and fought hard to repurchase the likes of R Ashwin, Doug Bollinger, Mike Hussey, Shadab Jakati and S Badrinath from the auction pool.

Big Names Out This Season For Chennai

The Chennai Super Kings have lost two huge players in Muttiah Muralitharan and Matthew Hayden and though it seems to be a huge loss may not be actually as bad. Hayden did not look at his dominating form last season while they have got young and talented Suraj Randiv to replace Muralitharan.

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Big Names In This Season For Chennai

Chennai have included talented pacers Nuwan Kulasekara and Tim Southee for the new season. Both exceptional seam bowlers will only bolster Chennai's bowling department. Apart from this they have picked Dwyane Bravo who is arguably one of the best all rounder in the modern game.

Chennai Plays Host To IPL 2011 Opening Match And IPL 2011 Final

Chennai Super Kings who won both IPL 2010 and Champions League 2010 have got the privilege of hosting the 2011 season of the IPL between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.The MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai would also be the venue for IPL 2011 final. The schedule recently released by BCCI has the ten franchises playing at 13 venues over 51 days. This is just a preliminry schedule may change as per requirement keeping in view state assembly elections to be held in the month of April in a few states like West Bengal.