Chennai Superstars was one of the nine teams played in the defunct

Indian Cricket League The Indian Cricket League (ICL) was a private cricket league funded by Zee Entertainment Enterprises that operated between 2007 and 2009 in India. Its two seasons included tournaments between four international teams (World XI, India, Pakistan ...

(ICL) founded in 2007. The team is based in

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

, coached by

Michael Bevan Michael Gwyl Bevan (born 8 May 1970) is a former Australian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a slow left arm wrist-spin bowler. He has been credited for initiating the art of finishing matches. For several years, he was considered as ...

and captained by Stuart Law, both reputed Australian cricketers. The team had the distinction of winning the first two championships of

, the ICL Inaugural T20 held in 2007 and the ICL 50 Overs Tournament held in 2008. They earned the third place in the third ICL tournament, ICL Edelweiss 20s held in 2008 and the runners place in ICL Domestic 20s 2008.

Etymology

The team is named after the popular movie star of

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...

Rajnikanth Shivaji Rao Gaikwad (born 12 December 1950), known professionally as Rajinikanth, is an Indian actor, producer and screenwriter. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done 160 films that includes films in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannad ...

who is popularly referred to as 'Superstar'.

Coaches and support staff

* Coach –

* Assistant Coach & Mentor – Kharsan Ghavri * Physiotherapist – Anthony Smith * Strength & Conditioning Coach – Corey Bocking * Massage-therapist – Julia Russel, Flavier Lia

Players

Overseas Players * Ian Harvey (Australia) * Stuart Law (Australia) (Captain) * Nantie Hayward (South Africa) * Russel Arnold (Sri Lanka) * Shabbir Ahmed (Pakistan) Local Players * R Sathish (Chennai) (Vice Captain) *

Hemang Badani Hemang Kamal Badani (; born 14 November 1976) is a former Indian Cricketer, who played for the Tamil Nadu and Vidarbha cricket teams. He also captained the Tamil Nadu cricket team. Early life Hemang Badani is born in a Gujarati family in Chenn ...

(Chennai) * G Vignesh (Chennai) * Tamil Kumaran (Chennai) *

Hemanth Kumar Hemanth Subramanya known by his stage name as Hemanth, is a playback singer in Kannada cinema. Early life Hemanth was born in a family of musicians at Bangalore, India. His mother Rathna Sastry is a classical singer and his father Subramanya ...

(Chennai) * Syed Mohammed (Chennai) *

Thiru Kumaran Thirunavukkarasu Kumaran () (born 30 December 1975 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu), also known as 'Kenny' and 'Thiru Kumaran', is an Indian First Class cricketer & Cricket Coach. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He w ...

(Chennai) * J. Hareish (Chennai) * Vasanth Sarvanan (Tamil Nadu) * Rajamani Jesuraj (Tamil Nadu) * Vasudevan Devendran (Chennai) * Vivek Parikh (Gujarat)

Previous performance

Trivia

* Sanjeev Martin (Tamil Nadu) and

Sridharan Sriram Sridharan Sriram (; born 21 February 1976) is an Indian cricket coach and former cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. He played in the Indian Cricket League and the Indian Premier League.On 19 August, 20 ...

(Chennai) who played for Chennai Superstars in ICL 50s in 2008 season joined the Ahmedabad Rockets from the Edelweiss T20s in 2008 season. * Chris Read (England) who played for Chennai Superstars in 2007 season was replaced by Adam Parore (New Zealand) from the Edelweiss T20s in 2008 season who was in turn replaced by Nantie Hayward (South Africa) in 2008–2009 season. * R.Sathish, G.Vignesh, J.Syed Mohammed and Thiru Kumaran played for ICL India in the 2008 Indian Cricket League World Series. Shabbir Ahmed represented ICL Pakistan while Russel Arnold and Ian Harvey represented ICL World in the same tournament. * Coach

played three matches for the side in the ICL Edelweiss 20s held in 2008 * Chennai Superstars have been placed in the top 10 of Bartercard Power Rankings for T20 teams

Notes

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