Kolkata: They have disowned their CEO, refused to admit he is their owner and now face an uncertain future in the Indian Premier League, but Chennai Super Kings will live another day. Live for maybe their last day of existence and fight for their third title in just six years of the IPL - against Mumbai Indians.
It's not the ideal way to prepare for a title clash. Players, however talented they may be, with things other than cricket on their mind will always find it tough to perform. Maybe that's the challenge that props up MS Dhoni's men - to go out there and show that their job is just to give it their best on the ground for the team they play for. Matters beyond the field of play are not in their control.
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08:12 PM, May 25, 2013
Without a doubt the most powerful IPL franchise - if not in all Twenty20 cricket - Chennai Super Kings have lived up to expectations by making it to their fifth IPL final in six season. Here, we take a look at how CSK's season has panned out. 1st match, v MI in Chennai - lost by nine runs CSK opened the tournament with a narrow defeat to the team they...
02:51 PM, May 25, 2013
Jaipur: Shane Watson once again stamped his authority with 70 off 34 balls to propel Rajasthan Royals to an impressive five-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings that took them to number two in the IPL 6 points table. The victory helped Rajasthan touch the magical figure of 20 points after 14 matches. Chennai's openers - Michael Hussey and Murali Vijay - were subdued in their approach as the pitch was...
11:11 PM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: Michael Husssey with 574 runs and Dwayne Bravo with his 21 wickets are the proud owners of the Orange and Purple caps, respectively, but their Chennai Super Kings' team-mate R Ashwin says that's not the focus of his in-form team-mates. Hussey scored his fifth half-century (67) of the season and Bravo took a wicket in Chennai's 77-run win against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Wednesday. That helped Hussey reclaim the...
10:08 AM, May 09, 2013
Mumbai: West Indies allrounder Dwayne Bravo, who has been named as the team's captain for the ICC Champions Trophy, said that he is learning a lot from his Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. "The way you have MS carry himself on and off the field, I have learnt a lot from him. I spend a lot more time talking to him about cricket. Obviously, India will come up...
08:09 AM, May 07, 2013
Hyderabad: After Chris Gayle invented the 'Gangnam' celebration mode during West Indies' triumphant campaign in ICC World T20 last September, this year's IPL has witnessed Dwayne Bravo show his dancing skills more often than not. The Caribbean allrounder has done moonwalks, impersonations of Spartan, and at times was even caught doing tamil dance with his team-mate Dirk Nannes. Keep all that aside, as Darren Sammy seems to have followed suite...
10:45 AM, May 05, 2013
A masterful innings by Mike Hussey gave Chennai Super Kings their first victory of IPL 6 as they demolished Kings XI Punjab by 10 wickets at the PCA Stadium in Mohali on Wednesday. Hussey, who made an unbeaten 86 off 54 balls, once again showed how useful a player he is for Chennai. First he held onto a tough catch of Adam Gilchrist in Punjab's innings and then he, along...
11:10 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Chennai: IPL heavyweight Chennai Super Kings open their campaign at their bastion in Chennai against Mumbai Indians in game two of Saturday's double-header, and with a replenished pace bowling attack the home team could look to rattle the shaky MI batting order. Mumbai lost their season opener by two runs to Royal Challengers Bangalore on Thursday night, with their batsmen, bar Dinesh Karthik, struggling to dominate the RCB bowling. Their...
09:36 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Simmons' third half-century and an unbroken 85-run third-wicket partnership with Dwayne Bravo guided the Windies to an eight-wicket win over Zimbabwe. ...
02:58 AM, Mar 03, 2013
The West Indies and Zimbabwe play a two -match T20 series on Saturday and Sunday at the Sir Vivian Richards cricket ground in Antigua. ...
04:26 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Darren Bravo hit a brilliant 72 runs to take West Indies to a comfortable victory after the upper order was toppled by Zimbabwe spinners. ...
07:05 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Playing their first bilateral series in five months, Zimbabwe looked rusty in the first outing but in the second they showed potential and West Indies would be vary in the final ODI. ...
06:13 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Dwayne Bravo took 6-43 and Sarwan struck an unbeaten 120 to lead West Indies to a seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the second ODI. ...
03:50 AM, Feb 25, 2013
WI were propelled by centuries from Darren Bravo and Johnson Charles before bowlers restricted Zimbabwe to 181 for 9. ...
03:10 AM, Feb 23, 2013
After posting an imposing 337, West Indies restricted Zimbabwe to 181 for 9 to win the first ODI by a big margin. ...
07:28 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Bravo, skippering the side in place of Darren Sammy who has been rested for the series, says the Caribbean side is hungry for success. ...
02:22 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Before the start of the five-match series West Indian captain Darren Sammy spoke of how he believed his team could achieve a rare ODI trophy. Now, after two consecutive defeats, Sammy finds West Indies needing to win the third match in Canberra on Wednesday to keep the series alive. ...
09:00 AM, Feb 05, 2013
Kieran Powell said he was disappointed at not being able to deliver a victory for the West Indies in the second ODI against Australia. ...
04:13 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Bravo has been declared fit again after recovering from an injury sustained during the recent ICC Twenty20 World Cup. ...
04:44 PM, Jan 04, 2013
West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo says the side's triumph in a major international tournament was long overdue. ...
12:21 PM, Oct 17, 2012
