While Chennai have done well enough to retain most of their players who played in IPL 3 , they have made a suicidial mistake in not doing the same for Murali . I mean , they basically had 5 match winners in their playing XI last season in :
Hayden (out of form , still we know what he offers to the team on his day)
Muralitharan
Ashwin
Bollinger
Raina
As of now , they have lost 3 of them and look at their replacements :
Hayden >> Tharanga
Murali >> Randiv
Bollinger >> Southee
Raina and Ashwin remain . My heart says Chennai will do a KXP this season .
They didnt give up on Murali. They lost Murali to Kochi. CSK bid heavily for Murali but at one point, they had to give up.
Hayden was a mega flop in the last tournament and was already on the wane. Murali and Bollinger are a loss for Chennai, but I am guessing either Randiv or Southee will step up the plate big time for sure. Also, WE DONT DO A KXIP, NEVER! With a calm and cool guy like Dhoni as captain, I am confident we will not play as bad as KXIP have played in IPL history. We have Raina, Ashwin, Vijay, Dhoni, Morkel all key players who can win us matches anytime. This could be the team
http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2011/content/squad/495836.html
M Vijay
M Hussey
S Raina
MS Dhoni
S Badrinath
Faf Du Plessis/S Styris
A Morkel
R Ashwin
B Hilfenhaus/T Southee
Yomahesh
S Jakati
In fact this time, CSK's bowling is going to look a lot stronger with a good local bowler, Yo Mahesh, good overseas backups like Hilfenhaus, Southee, Kulasekara, Morkel, Randiv etc and good allrounders like Faf Du Plessis, Styris, Bravo (if fit), etc. CHENNAI TO RETAIN IPL TROPHY!
but i didn't see even a piece of news about it..is it true or is it just a rumour..i am just hoping that he isn't the captain and the captain is either of Kohli/AB/Dilshan
