CSK played its first match 15 years ago on this day, know the best journey of the last 15 years

Chennai Super Kings: Chennai Super Kings is the most title winning team in IPL after Mumbai Indians. Mumbai has won the IPL trophy five times while Chennai has won it four times. However, if we talk about performing well in almost every season with consistency, then there is no other team even around Chennai. Chennai Super Kings played their first IPL match on 19 April 2008. Let us tell you about this journey of Chennai.

Great journey of CSK

Chennai has so far participated in the IPL 13 times and has qualified for the playoffs a total of 11 times and has also qualified for the finals 9 times. Apart from this, Chennai has won the title a total of 4 times, while being runner-up 5 times. Chennai has not been able to qualify for the playoffs only 2 times so far. This happened for the first time in IPL 2020, when Chennai could not qualify for the playoffs. After that, Chennai could not qualify for the playoffs in IPL 2022 i.e. last season as well.

• IPL 2008 In the first season of IPL, Chennai Super Kings had traveled till the finals. However, in the final match, Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai by 3 wickets on the last ball of the match and won the first IPL title.
• Chennai finished fourth in IPL 2009.
• In IPL 2010, Chennai won the IPL trophy for the first time by defeating Mumbai Indians in the final match.
• In IPL 2011, Chennai defeated RCB in the final and won the IPL trophy for the second time in a row and became the first team to defend this title.
• Even in IPL 2012, Chennai Super Kings went to the finals, but in the final match, Gautam Gambhir’s Kolkata Knight Riders won the title by defeating Chennai.
• Even in IPL 2013, Chennai Super Kings went till the final and but in the final match, Mumbai Indians won the IPL trophy for the first time by defeating CSK.
• In IPL 2014, the Chennai team stood at the third position.
• Even in IPL 2015, Chennai Super Kings went till the final and but in the final match, Mumbai Indians won the IPL trophy for the second time by defeating CSK.
• In IPL 2016 and IPL 2017, the Chennai Super Kings team could not participate in the IPL due to the ban.
• In IPL 2018, Chennai returned after two years and won the title for the third time by defeating Hyderabad in the final match.
• Even in IPL 2019, Chennai Super Kings went till the final and but in the final match, Mumbai Indians won the IPL trophy for the fourth time by defeating CSK.
• In IPL 2020, Chennai Super Kings could not qualify for the playoffs for the first time.
• In IPL 2021, Chennai once again made a strong comeback and won the title for the fourth time by defeating Kolkata Knight Riders in the final.
• In IPL 2022, the Chennai team finished their campaign at the ninth position.

Dhoni and Chennai pair

The special thing in this journey of Chennai is that in the first season of IPL i.e. 2008 also, CSK captain was Mahendra Singh Dhoni and in the current season i.e. IPL 2023 also, the captain of Chennai is Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Now it has to be seen how far the journey of Chennai goes in this season of IPL. However, at the moment, Chennai Super Kings have won 3 matches from 5 matches and are at the third position in the points table.

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