Keeping Indian Players at bay has always been Chennai Super Kings‘ great strength
The main reason behind Chennai Super Kings’ success is because of the Indian talent on disposal.
When other teams ran behind big names of cricket, CSK emphasized on picking the right domestic talent. Suresh Raina, the most consistent among the IPL batsman, was picked by CSK. Besides him, CSK bought players like MS Dhoni, Murali Vijay, Subramaniam Badrinath, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravi Jadeja. Those are big names for a T20 format. Here is where other teams fail to score.
Keeping Chennai players also helped them a lot.
As most teams struggle to get a good Indian spinner, Chennai Super Kings have the likes of Ashwin and Jadeja who win matches on own. Not to forget their smiling assassin in Lakshmipathi Balaji who spent his prime days at Chepauk.
Suresh Raina at no.3 have been a consistent performer scoring over 400 runs every season How lucky have they been? And then comes in MS Dhoni. Again, how lucky have they been?
Chennai Super Kings has always been a great side with eleven good players instead of a good side with three or four great players. This season, Chennai Super Kings strategy has undergone a slight revamp, thanks to the injury to Dwayne Bravo. Now they have two explosive openers, no umbrella man aka Badrinath, no potent all-rounder in the playing XI. Still, so far they have been punching above their weight.