Chennai Super Kings remain favorites for IPL8

#CSK #IPL8 #PepsiIPL #EdenGardens Cricket festival is back in India and IPL8 is set to be launched tomorrow at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. In spite of a series of unpleasant revelations connected with match-fixing in the wake of IPL7, the ownership of CSK is now with a new entity – namely, a wholly owned subsidiary Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd as reported in ibnlive.in.com dated 6 April 2015.

The CSK has a well-knit team and has an impressive record – it was two-time winners, two-time semi-finalists and three-time runners-up, and have never gone out in the group stages. Its strength is in Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. This year CSK has retained 17 players and bought 8. Two of them, prime performers Irfan Pathan and Michel Hussey, were bought in for 1.5 crores each. The other new arrivals are Rahul Sharma, Kyle Abbott, Ankush Bains, Pratush Singh, Andrew Tye and Eklavya Dwivedi.
It already has strong hitters like West Indian Dwayne Smith and New Zealander Brendon McCullum and are backed by Faf du Plessis and all-rounder Dwayne Bravo besides M S Dhoni himself and Suresh Raina. Australian veteran Michael Hussey returns following a disappointing stint with Mumbai Indians in 2014.
In the bowling department, pacer Mohit Sharma and offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin will be a handful – they would spearhead the attack.

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