Whenever it comes to considering the best teams in the IPL, Chennai Super Kings is one of the names that appear to our minds. The team has been performing consistently right from the beginning of the tournament in 2008.
Chennai has played a total of 9 finals in IPL and has won 4 titles. Not just IPL titles, Chennai has also won two Champions League trophies in the years 2010 and 2014. The team was led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni from 2008-to 2021 and the current captain is Ravindra Jadeja. The team has included many great names like MSD, Muralitharan, Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Faf Du Plessis, Dwayne Bravo, Harbhajan Singh, and many more.
The team has been a part of many controversies but they have overcome them and have won the title even after being banned from the tournament for 2 years. They have proved how comebacks are always greater.
Since the start of IPL in 2008, Chennai has played the most finals and is the second most successful team after Mumbai Indians who are five times IPL champions. Chennai has played the first-ever IPL final against Rajasthan Royals. The four-times champion team has the highest win percentage of matches among all the teams in the league with 64.83%. The team has appeared in a total of seven playoffs and holds the record for most finals and most playoff appearances.
Though this season is not the season the team and the fans might have dreamed of, the success rate is enough to prove the potential of the team and why it is ok for them to not win the title this year.