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Team Chennai will be led by Indian cricket star Mahendra Singh Dhoni,the highest paid player in the championship. The outfit will be coached by Kepler Wessels. However, the team has no Icon Player. Chennai are one of the three franchises with no icon player. The lack of an icon player benefited the team during the bidding as they managed to bid profitably on two of the six A-listed players - Dhoni and Muttiah Muralidharan. In addition the list of players already attained, the team will pick the lingering members from the three catchment areas - Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Railways - that have been assigned to it. The team has decided to have twenty three players on its roster. The name was picked to pay tribute to the rulers of the golden era of Tamil culture, the team logo has a lion to reflect the King of the Jungle. In addition, the word "Super" is informally used in the state of Tamil Nadu to reflect all things exhilarating and thrilling and is a word on the lips of almost everyone there. The name is also from Coromandel Super King cement, a brand of cement promoted by the India Cements group, of which N. Srinivasan (Treasurer, BCCI) is the Vice-Chairman and Managing Director. The crown in the logo is also borrowed from the cement brand. Incidentally the Chennai team playing in the ICL (the rebel league) is named as "Chennai Superstars". The franchise is owned by India Cements, who paid a spectacular $91 million to get hold of the rights of the franchise for the next decade. Former India Test player Kris Srikkanth is the brand ambassador for the franchise, and another former Indian opener VB Chandrasekhar will be the chief selector. The brand ambassadors for the team will be South Indian actor, Vijay and actress, Nayantara. The MA Chidambaram stadium (often referred to as Chepauk, the place where the stadium is located) will be the home ground of the team. The theme song of Chennai, penned by Vairamuthu, is composed by Mani Sharma and directed by Rajeev Menon. Being MS Dhoni's team, the Chennai will have a huge fan following and they will be keen to not let down their fans

SELECT PLAYERS

Mahendra Suresh Raina Singh Dhoni

Parthiv Patel

RavichandranSubramaniam Einstein Napoleon Ashwin Badrinath

Shadab Jakati

Abhinav Mukund

Jacob Oram Albie Morkel

Matthew Hayden

Makhaya Ntini

Michael Hussey

Lakshmipathy Balaji

Muttiah Muralidaran

Stephen Fleming

Viraj Kadbe Palani Amarnath

Manpreet Arun Karthik Suresh Kumar