2009 Season

Apart from Adrew Flintoff, Thilan Thushara from Sri Lanka, Georga Bailey from Tasmania and Murali Vijay the Tamil Nadu batsman who played for India in two test matches, and Sudeep Tyagi, who had missed the 2008 season due to injury, returned for the second season which was held in South Africa. IN addition ShadabJakathi of Goa was also added to the team, a left field selection by V.B Chandrasekhar team's Director of Cricketing Operations. Five players Srikanth Anirudha, Sivaramakrishnan Vidyut,Selvam suresh kumar,Abhinav Mukund and Napoleon Einstein were sent back from south Africa t trim the squad. Michael Hussey optede out of the 2009 season however he decided to come back for the semi-finels but was not picked to play. Andrew Flintoff picked up a knee injury and was withdrawn from the tournament and returned to Englad early inthe tournament.

The super Kings played first match of the tournament which they lost to the Mumbai Indians by 19 runs. They won  the second match against the Royal Challengers Bangalore by 92 runs, before losing their nes two mathes. however things took a turn with a five games winning streak for the Super kings, enentually even taking the top spot They entered the semifinals after their sin against Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets, finishing the group stage at second, where they were eliminated by the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Mathew Hayden was the Orenge cap winner being the leading run scorer n IPL 2009 scoring 572 runs in 12 matches with in an avarage of 52 and strike rate of 144.81 Meanwhile Muttiah Muralitharan had the best economy rate of the tournament (5.22) and was also Chennai's Highest wicket taker (14)