April 20, 2009

Chennai Super Kings Trim Squad

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Chennai Super Kings have trimmed their original squad by sending back five players, mainly batsmen. The following is the list of players who will not be playing for Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2009:

1. Srikkanth Aniruddha
2. Napoleon Einstein
3. Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan
4. Suresh Kumar
5. Abhinav Mukund

By dropping Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, it is clear that Chennai Super Kings is banking on Parthiv Patel as a permanent opener for IPL 2009. As Dhoni will unlikely be keeping in IPL, Parthiv Patel is almost a certainty in the team as wicket-keeper.

This follows the earlier decision by Rajasthan Royals to send back about six players. It seems the franchises are trying to keep their expenses as low as possible by trimming their squad, which is logical considering that the matches are now played in South Africa. The poor thing is some of the young Indians would be losing the valuable experience of mixing around with the established international players.

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