Chennai Summary
April 3rd 2008 06:15
The Chennai Super Kings
This team has an exciting mix of youth and experience. The team features alot of young exciting Indian talent and the foreign players include some of the games all time greats in Muralitharan and Hayden. As well as the competitions most expensive player in Indian one day captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The batting of this team is particularly strong and I think it will be the key to this team. Led by the brutal power of Matthew Hayden and MS Dhoni with the smarts of Michael "Mr Cricket" Hussey. Add to this the class of Stephen Fleming and the fence clearing ability of Jacob Oram and you have the potential for big scores.
The bowling looks a little more brittle with the attack led by the highly credentialed South African Makhaya Ntini and Sri Lanka's record breaking champion Muttiah Muralitharan. But the bowlers to support them are thin on the ground. There is the allround abilities of Oram and Ntini's South African teammate Albie Morkel. Out of favour Indian paceman Lakshmipathy Balaji will have to play a major role as a back up bowler. Alot will depend on how Muralitharan will bowl and whether his test and one dy success can be translated to the super truncated form of the game.
This team will fancy their chances - My guess is that such is the talent in the batting line up they will just rely on making more runs than their opposition - anything you get we'll get more. A point of interest will be seeing how crowds greet Australian opener Hayden given the controversies of the last Australian summer with the Indians and Harbhajan Singh in particular.
Here is a possible best line up
1. Matthew Hayden
2. Stephen Fleming
4. Michael Hussey
5. MS Dhoni
6. Jacob Oram
7. Subramanium Badrinath
8. Albie Morkel
9. Lakshmipathy Balaji
10. Makhaya Ntini
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
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