Representing the Chennai franchisee for the Indian Premier League is the Chennai Super Kings team. The franchisee rights for this team have been bought for the next ten years by the India Cements Group and N Srinivasan by paying $91 million. This team has the symbol of a lion which represents the king of the jungle which goes really well with the name of the team. V. B. Chandrasekhar is the chief selector for the team and Kris Srikkanth is the brand ambassador. Kepler Wessels is the head coach of the team.

This team managed to grab two of the A-rated players for the league who are MS Dhoni and Muttiah Muralitharan. There is no icon player for the team which helped the owners with the task of getting good players without paying any extra amounts to “icons”. In spite of this, MS Dhoni managed to get the highest price in the auction which was US$ 1,500,000.

Other players secured by the team owners in the auctions are Mathew Hayden, Jacob Oram, Stephen Fleming, Parthiv Patel, Joginder Sharma, Michael Hussey etc. The other players will be taken up from the catchment areas allotted which are Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Railways.

Sl No.	Player	Category	Cost-US $	Country
01	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Batsman/WK (C)	$1,500,000	India
02	Matthew Hayden	Batsman	$375,000	Australia
03	Michael Hussey	Batsman	$350,000	Australia
04	Chamara Kapugedera	Batsman		Sri Lanka
05	Subramaniam Badrinath	Batsman		India
06	George Bailey	Batsman		Australia
07	Suresh Raina	Batsman	$650,000	India
08	Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan	Batsman		India
09	Anirudha Srikkanth	Batsman		India
10	Arun Karthik	Batsman		Indian
11	Abhinav Mukund	Batsman		India
12	Murali Vijay	Batsman		India
13	Parthiv Patel	Batsman/WK	$325,000	India
14	Andrew Flintoff	All Rounder	$1,550,000	England
15	Jacob Oram	All Rounder	$675,000	New Zealand
16	Albie Morkel	All Rounder	$675,000	South Africa
17	Shadab Jakati	All Rounder		India
18	Viraj Kadbe	All Rounder		India
19	Suresh Kumar	All Rounder		India
20	Napolean Einstein	All Rounder		India
21	M. Muralitharan	Bowler	$600, 000	Sri Lanka
22	Joginder Sharma	Bowler	$225,000	India
23	Makhaya Ntini	Bowler	$200,000	Sout Africa
24	Thilan Thushara	Bowler		Sri Lanka
25	Ravichandran Aswhin	Bowler		India
26	Manpreet Gony	Bowler		India
27	Laxmipathy Balaji	Bowler		India
28	Palani Amarnath	Bowler		India
29	Sudeep Tyagi	Bowler		India