2023 Chennai Super Kings season

Chennai Super Kings

2023 season
Coach	Stephen Fleming
Captain	Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Ground(s)	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Indian Premier League	Champions (5th titles)
Most runs	Devon Conway (672)
Most wickets	Tushar Deshpande (21)
Most catches	Ruturaj Gaikwad (17)
← 2022 2024 →

The 2023 season was the 14th season for the Indian Premier League franchise Chennai Super Kings. They are one of ten teams that competed in the 2023 Indian Premier League. ^[1] The side have won the IPL title four times. This team qualified for the final of IPL 2023 for the 10th time. Chennai Super Kings won their 5th IPL Title after defeating Gujarat Titans in the rain affected 2023 Indian Premier League final.

Squad

• Players with international caps are listed in bold.
• Ages are given as if 31 March 2023, the date of the first match of the season

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Year signed	Notes
Captain
7	MS Dhoni	India	(1981-07-07)7 July 1981 (aged 41)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2018	Wicket-keeper
Batters
9	Ambati Rayudu	India	(1985-09-23)23 September 1985 (aged 37)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2018
21	Ajinkya Rahane	India	(1988-06-06)6 June 1988 (aged 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm off spin	2023
88	Devon Conway	New Zealand	(1991-07-08)8 July 1991 (aged 31)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	2022	Overseas Wicket-keeper
30	Subhranshu Senapati	India	(1996-12-30)30 December 1996 (aged 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2022
31	Ruturaj Gaikwad	India	(1997-01-31)31 January 1997 (aged 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2019
66	Shaik Rasheed	India	(2004-09-24)24 September 2004 (aged 18)	Right-handed	Right-arm Leg spin	2023
All-rounders
18	Moeen Ali	England	(1987-06-18)18 June 1987 (aged 35)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2021	Overseas
8	Ravindra Jadeja	India	(1988-12-06)6 December 1988 (aged 34)	Left-handed	Left-arm slow orthodox	2018
29	Dwaine Pretorius	South Africa	(1989-03-29)29 March 1989 (aged 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2022	Overseas
55	Ben Stokes	England	(1991-06-04)4 June 1991 (aged 31)	Left-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2023	Overseas
74	Mitchell Santner	New Zealand	(1992-02-05)5 February 1992 (aged 31)	Left-handed	Left-arm slow orthodox	2018	Overseas
25	Shivam Dube	India	(1993-06-26)26 June 1993 (aged 29)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	2022
19	Ajay Mandal	India	(1996-02-25)25 February 1996 (aged 27)	Left-handed	Left-arm slow orthodox	2023
28	Bhagath Varma	India	(1998-09-21)21 September 1998 (aged 24)	Right-handed	Right-arm Off-break	2021
10	Rajvardhan Hangargekar	India	(2002-11-10)10 November 2002 (aged 20)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2022
27	Nishant Sindhu	India	(2004-04-09)9 April 2004 (aged 18)	Left-handed	Left-arm slow orthodox	2023
Spin bowlers
46	Prashant Solanki	India	(2000-02-22)22 February 2000 (aged 23)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg spin	2022
61	Maheesh Theekshana	Sri Lanka	(2000-08-01)1 August 2000 (aged 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2022	Overseas
Pace bowlers
58	Sisanda Magala	South Africa	(1991-01-07)7 January 1991 (aged 32)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	2023	Overseas
90	Deepak Chahar	India	(1992-08-07)7 August 1992 (aged 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018
12	Kyle Jamieson	New Zealand	(1994-12-30)30 December 1994 (aged 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm Fast	2023	Overseas
24	Tushar Deshpande	India	(1995-05-15)15 May 1995 (aged 27)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	2022
33	Mukesh Choudhary	India	(1996-07-06)6 July 1996 (aged 26)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2022
17	Simarjeet Singh	India	(1998-01-17)17 January 1998 (aged 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2022
26	Akash Singh	India	(2002-04-26)26 April 2002 (aged 20)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2023
81	Matheesha Pathirana	Sri Lanka	(2002-12-18)18 December 2002 (aged 20)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	2022	Overseas

Administration and support staff

Position	Name
CEO	Kasinath Viswanathan
Team manager	Russell Radhakrishnan
Consultant	Sundar Raman
Head coach	Stephen Fleming
Batting coach	Michael Hussey
Bowling coach	Dwayne Bravo
Fielding coach	Rajiv Kumar

• Source: Chennai Super Kings ^[2]

Matches

League stage

All times are in Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30).

The schedule for the group stages was published on 17 February 2023. ^[3]

Match 1 31 March 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Chennai Super Kings 178/7 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat Titans (H) 182/5 (19.2 overs)
Ruturaj Gaikwad 92 (50) Rashid Khan 2/26 (4 overs)		Shubman Gill 63 (36) Rajvardhan Hangargekar 3/36 (4 overs)

Gujarat Titans won by 5 wickets Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Rashid Khan (Gujarat Titans)

• Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to field.
• Tushar Deshpande for Ambati Rayudu (Chennai Super Kings) and Sai Sudharsan for Kane Williamson (Gujarat Titans) were the first Impact Players to be used in the IPL.

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Match 6 3 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

(H) Chennai Super Kings 217/7 (20 overs)	v	Lucknow Super Giants 205/7 (20 overs)
Ruturaj Gaikwad 57 (31) Ravi Bishnoi 3/28 (4 overs)		Kyle Mayers 53 (22) Moeen Ali 4/26 (4 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 12 runs M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Bruce Oxenford (Aus) and Akshay Totre (Ind) Player of the match: Moeen Ali (Chennai Super Kings)

• Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 12 8 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

(H) Mumbai Indians 157/8 (20 overs)	v	Chennai Super Kings 159/3 (18.1 overs)
Ishan Kishan 32 (21) Ravindra Jadeja 3/20 (4 overs)		Ajinkya Rahane 61 (27) Kumar Kartikeya 1/24 (4 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 7 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (NZ) and Nikhil Patwardhan (Ind) Player of the match: Ravindra Jadeja (Chennai Super Kings)

• Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 17 12 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Rajasthan Royals 175/8 (20 overs)	v	Chennai Super Kings (H) 172/6 (20 overs)
Jos Buttler 52 (36) Ravindra Jadeja 2/21 (4 overs)		Devon Conway 50 (38) Ravichandran Ashwin 2/25 (4 overs)

Rajasthan Royals won by 3 runs M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Virender Sharma (Ind) and Vinod Seshan (Ind) Player of the match: Ravichandran Ashwin (Rajasthan Royals)

• Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 24 17 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Chennai Super Kings 226/6 (20 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H) 218/8 (20 overs)
Devon Conway 83 (45) Wanindu Hasaranga 1/21 (2 overs)		Glenn Maxwell 76 (36) Tushar Deshpande 3/45 (4 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 8 runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Navdeep Singh (Ind) Player of the match: Devon Conway (Chennai Super Kings)

• Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 29 21 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Sunrisers Hyderabad 134/7 (20 overs)	v	Chennai Super Kings (H) 138/3 (18.4 overs)
Abhishek Sharma 34 (26) Ravindra Jadeja 3/22 (4 overs)		Devon Conway 77* (57) Mayank Markande 2/23 (4 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 7 wickets M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Ravindra Jadeja (Chennai Super Kings)

• Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 33 23 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Chennai Super Kings 235/4 (20 overs)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders (H) 186/8 (20 overs)
Ajinkya Rahane 71* (29) Kulwant Khejroliya 2/44 (3 overs)		Jason Roy 61 (26) Maheesh Theekshana 2/32 (4 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 49 runs Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Ajinkya Rahane (Chennai Super Kings)

• Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 37 27 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

(H) Rajasthan Royals 202/5 (20 overs)	v	Chennai Super Kings 170/6 (20 overs)
Yashasvi Jaiswal 77 (43) Tushar Deshpande 2/42 (4 overs)		Shivam Dube 52 (33) Adam Zampa 3/22 (3 overs)

Rajasthan Royals won by 32 runs Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and Akshay Totre (Ind) Player of the match: Yashasvi Jaiswal (Rajasthan Royals)

• Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 41 30 April 2023 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard

(H) Chennai Super Kings 200/4 (20 overs)	v	Punjab Kings 201/6 (20 overs)
Devon Conway 92* (52) Sikandar Raza 1/31 (3 overs)		Prabhsimran Singh 42 (24) Tushar Deshpande 3/49 (4 overs)

Punjab Kings won by 4 wickets M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Ulhas Gandhe (Ind) and Rod Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: Devon Conway (Chennai Super Kings)

• Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 45 3 May 2023 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard

(H) Lucknow Super Giants 125/7 (19.2 overs)	v	Chennai Super Kings
Ayush Badoni 59* (33) Moeen Ali 2/13 (4 overs)

No result BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Nikhil Patwardhan (Ind)

• Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
• No further play was possible due to rain.
• The match was shifted from May 4 to May 3 due to the Lucknow Municipal Corporation elections. ^[4]

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Match 49 6 May 2023 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Mumbai Indians 139/8 (20 overs)	v	Chennai Super Kings (H) 140/4 (17.4 overs)
Nehal Wadhera 64 (51) Matheesha Pathirana 3/15 (4 overs)		Devon Conway 44 (42) Piyush Chawla 2/25 (4 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 6 wickets M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Bruce Oxenford (Aus) and Navdeep Singh (Ind) Player of the match: Matheesha Pathirana (Chennai Super Kings)

• Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
• Raghav Goyal (Mumbai Indians) made his T20 debut.

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Match 55 10 May 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

(H) Chennai Super Kings 167/8 (20 overs)	v	Delhi Capitals 140/8 (20 overs)
Shivam Dube 25 (12) Mitchell Marsh 3/18 (3 overs)		Rilee Rossouw 35 (37) Matheesha Pathirana 3/37 (4 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 27 runs M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (NZ) and Nikhil Patwardhan (Ind) Player of the match: Ravindra Jadeja (Chennai Super Kings)

• Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 61 14 May 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

(H) Chennai Super Kings 144/6 (20 overs)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders 147/4 (18.3 overs)
Shivam Dubey 48* (34) Sunil Narine 2/15 (4 overs)		Nitish Rana 57* (44) Deepak Chahar 3/27 (3 overs)

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 6 wickets M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Tapan Sharma (Ind) and Vinod Seshan (Ind) Player of the match: Rinku Singh (Kolkata Knight Riders)

• Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 67 20 May 2023 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Chennai Super Kings 223/3 (20 overs)	v	Delhi Capitals (H) 146/9 (20 overs)
Devon Conway  87 (52) Chetan Sakariya 1/36 (4 overs)		David Warner 86 (58) Deepak Chahar 3/22 (4 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 77 runs Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (NZ) and Nikhil Patwardhan (Ind) Player of the match: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Chennai Super Kings)

• Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
• Chennai Super Kings qualified for the playoffs as a result of this match.

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Playoffs

Qualifier 1

23 May 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Chennai Super Kings 172/7 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat Titans 157 (20 overs)
Ruturaj Gaikwad 60 (44) Mohammed Shami 2/28 (4 overs)		Shubman Gill 42 (38) Ravindra Jadeja 2/18 (4 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 15 runs M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Chris Gaffaney (NZ) Player of the match: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Chennai Super Kings)

• Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to field.
• Chennai Super Kings qualified for the final for the 10th time in IPL history. ^[5]

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Final

Main article: 2023 Indian Premier League final

29 May 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Gujarat Titans 214/4 (20 overs)	v	Chennai Super Kings 171/5 (15 overs)
Sai Sudharsan 96 (47) Matheesha Pathirana 2/44 (4 overs)		Devon Conway 47 (25) Mohit Sharma 3/36 (3 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 5 wickets (DLS method) Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and Rod Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: Devon Conway (Chennai Super Kings)

• Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was scheduled to be held on 28 May, but was pushed to 29 May owing to rain. It ended on 30 May at 01:35 IST, thus, becoming the longest ever IPL final. ^{[a] [6] [7]}
• Chennai Super Kings were set a revised target of 171 runs from 15 overs due to rain.
• By winning in the final, Chennai Super Kings equalled Mumbai Indians for winning the most IPL trophies (5). ^[8]

Statistics

Most runs

No.	Name	Match	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave.	BF	SR	100s	50s	0	4s	6s
1	Devon Conway	16	15	2	672	92*	51.69	481	139.70	0	6	1	77	18
2	Ruturaj Gaikwad			1	590	92	42.14	400	147.50		4	0	46	30
3	Shivam Dube		14	3	418	52	38.00	264	158.33		3		12	35
4	Ajinkya Rahane	14	11	1	326	71*	32.60	189	172.48		2		24	16
5	Ravindra Jadeja	16	12	4	190	25*	23.75	133	142.85		0		11	9

• Source: ^[9]

Most wickets

No.	Name	Match	Inns	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	BBI	Ave.	Econ.	SR	4W	5W
1	Tushar Deshpande	16	16	56.5	0	564	21	3/45	26.85	9.95	16.23	0	0
2	Ravindra Jadeja			57.0		431	20	3/20	21.55	7.56	17.10
3	Matheesha Pathirana	12	12	46.2		376	19	3/15	19.52	8.00	14.63
4	Deepak Chahar	10	10	34.0		297	13	3/22	22.84	8.73	15.69
5	Maheesh Theekshana	13	13	49.0		392	11	2/23	35.63	8.00	26.72

• Source: ^[10]

Notes

1. It was the first IPL in history which had a reserved day and the game held on it

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