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Pune Warriors
This franchise of cricket team playing under IPL is
representing the Indian city Pune. The franchise is one of the two newly added
franchises of the IPL that was founded in 2010 and played 2011 matches under
IPL as their first season. Subrata Roy of Sahara Group won the bid from
Videocon Group and purchased the franchise for 170.2 million Indian rupees.
Angelo Mathews is the team captain and Allan Donald is the
head coach of the team. Allan Donald is former South African Pacer and
currently bowling coach of South Africa. As the name of the team Warriors so
it’s the logo has spear wielding warrior riding a stallion. Initially the name
of the franchise was Sahara Pune Warriors later it changed to Pune Warriors
India. They signed with Adidas as their official sponsor for the coming
seasons. While TVS Motors were their proper brand sponsor. The other sponsors
included Pepsi, Playup, Royal Challenge, Amity University, Valvoline and
Finolex. The color assigned to the team is Turquoise blue and silver.
For their first season in 2011 Pune Warriors signed top
players including Yuvraj Singh, Robbin Uthappa, Jesse Ryder, Angelo Mathews,
Murali Kartik, Graeme Smith, Ashish Nehra and also have signed number of top
uncapped players of Indian different clubs and franchises that is Abhishek
Jhunjhunwala, Mohnish Mishra, Kamran Khan and Mithun Minhas. The team played a
successful season of IPL 2011 under the captaincy of Yuvraj Singh.
At the start of the fifth season of IPL in 2012 Sahara
decided to withdraw their Pune Warriors from season 2012 just hour before when
the auction was about to start. But later Subrata Roy said that Saurav Ganguly
will be asked for reconcialliation, later he announced that Yuvraj Singh would
be replaced. The deadlocks were still between BCCI and Sahara group. But later
on February 2012, the discussion ended up with a positive result and they
announced that Pune Warriors will play the season 2012 of IPL.
It was decided by disbanding of Kochi Tuskers Kerala that
each team will play with remaining eight teams twice, once at home ground and
once at away so the each team will play 16 total matches. The first match was
considered as a battle between two friends Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar
from the team Mumbai Indians. Pune warriors won the match by 29 runs. PW played
total 16 matches but won only 4 and lost 12 and retained their position at 9
out of 9 teams.
The players currently playing with PW are Robin Uthappa,
Yuvraj Singh, Angelo Mathews, Kane Richarson, Ajantha Mendis, Abhishek Nayar,
Ashok Dinda, Micheal Clarke, Marlon Samuels, Luke Wright, Wayne Parnell, Rahul
Sharma and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Chennai Super Kings
The cricket franchise of Chennai is Chennai Super Kings that
is playing under IPL. The Team founded in 2008 and owned by India Cements who
paid $91 million to get its rights for 10 years. The President of BCCI N.
Srinivasan is the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the team CSK. M. A.
Chidambaram Stadium is its home ground. The team is coached by Stephen Fleming
while Andy Bichel is its Bowling coach and Steve Rixon is Fielding coach of the
team. The captain is Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
CSK won the two successive IPL title of 2011 and 2012 also
reached the plays off every season. It is the only team that is playing the
sixth season with the same captain. The team also recognized as it’s the only
Indian team who have won the Champions League T20. Suresh Raina is the main run
scorer and Albie Morkel is a leading wicket taker of the team. The consistent
brilliant performance made the franchise market value very high. The current
estimated brand value of the franchise is US$ 75.13 million that is the most
valuable franchise of the IPL. Film Actor Vijay and Actress Nayantara were the
brand ambassadors but later on they were removed.
The team came with a solid start in 2008 IPL and won the
first match against Kings XI Punjab by 33 runs. They were the runners-up team
of 2008 also qualified for Champions League T20. CSK won 9 matches out of 16
and ended up the session by 2nd position from top. Next year proved a bit
difficult for them as they were the semifinal runners up team and could not
qualify for the Champions League T20. They played 15 total matches and won 8
and ended up the season by standing at 4th position on the performance chart.
But the team proved them with a great come back in next season and became the
champions of the 2010 IPL also were the champions of the Champions League T20.
They won 9 out of 16 matches of the tournament. They got the best team title of
IPL again in 2011 IPL season 4. CSK played 16 matches won 11 with a percentage
of 68.75% and became the champions. Their success graph showed a slight down
slide during 2012 its 5th season of IPL. But the won 10 out of 19 matches with
a percentage of 55.56% and were the runners-up team of 2012.
MS Dhoni is the costliest player of the team
with his salary $3.000,000. Other players of the team are Ravindra Jadeja,
Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Ravinchandran Ashwin, Chris Morris, Albie Morkel,
Micheal Hussey, Dwayne Bravo, Francois du Plessis, Wriddiman Saha, Nuwan
Kulasekara and Ben Hilfenhaus.
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