Chennai Super Kings Coaches
The Chennai Super Kings are an Indian cricket franchise located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Founded in 2008, they are members of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and participated in the first edition of this competition played in Twenty20 format and organized by the Indian cricket federation, the BCCI. In 2010, the Super Kings won both the IPL final and the Champions League final. They have obtained the champion’s title two more times in 2011 and 2018. The current head CSK coach is Stephen Fleming, hired as the coach of the CSK in 2009.
Stephen Fleming is the New Zealand’s second-most capped Test player and a former captain of New Zealand cricket team. Prior to his appointment as a head coach, he played for the Chennai Super Kings in the first season of IPL in 2008. Thus, Stephen Fleming acts as a head coach since the team’s establishment and continues into the 2023 season. Due to the quarantine restrictions Fleming could not attend 2023 auction for IPL, as he had to travel to India and would remain anyway in quarantine for a long period. Yet, the CSK’s head coach looks forward to the team’s enhancement to take over the failure of the last season when the team could not make it for the playoffs for the first time in its history.
Other CSK coaches
Batting CSK Coach remains to be Mike Hussey. The former Australian cricket player who also has played for CSK on the dawn of its history in 2010 and his role was indeed crucial for the team to win the title of the League’s champion. His last season as a CSK team member was in 2013 finishing as a batsman of the League with the most runs. It was in 2018 when he was invited to become a batting coach of the CSK franchise.
The team has not changed the Bowling Coach either since the last season. Lakshmipathy Balaji, a former Indian bowler, was appointed on this position in 2018. He also was a CSK’s bowler in the legendary 2010 season taking a hat-trick in the IPL for the first time. Balaji, CSK coach 2023, is also optimistic about the team’s performance in the upcoming tournament and is happy about the engagement of Cheteshwar Pujara, batsman, at the auction for IPL this year.
Rajiv Kumar is a Fielding coach for Chennai Super Kings. Kumar was a skipper and played with the CSK captain Dhoni together for Bihar/Jharkhand for many years. This field coach has an extensive experience in coaching and maintains strong and long-lasting relations with the team members, and targets for a successful strategy for this year.
CSK cricket matches betting tips
Betting on cricket is not that kind of chance play, it requires some knowledge about the teams and their form. The more knowledge a fan has about CSK team or any other team, the more likely he is to win. Too complicated rules discourage most betting fans, but the most persistent, ready to delve into all the subtleties of cricket, can earn good money on this sport.
Basic cricket betting are as follows:
- Who will win the toss. This is really a matter of simple luck. There is a toss between the teams, which team will go first in the field, that is, who will be the first to bat.
- On the winner. The choice of the team that will prevail in the meeting. Here comes to your help the statistics of previous personal duels to correctly make a bet on this market: compare the performance of the main players of both teams: bowlers and batsmen performance, their strengths and weaknesses.
- On the best player of the encounter. Oftentimes, this title goes to a member of the winning team. At this point it is essential to consider the leaders of the represented franchizes, their current form and motivation.
- For the best partnership. You have to select the group of participants (of 2 or 3 participants), who will contribute the most scores to their team, from the offered options. This bid only may seem difficult at first glance. After all, in any cricket team has a well-established set of players, who earn scores for the entire team.
- On the total. A bet on the total number of points (ranks) earned by opponents. Many bookmakers offer wagering on each team individual totals or on sixes, run-scorers, number of wickets before the fall of the wicket.
- On totals. Betting on the total number of points (rans) earned by opponents. Also, sportsbooks offer betting on individual totals for each team or on 6-points, ran-outs, the number of wounds before the wicket is destroyed.
- On the best bowler/batsman. An individual prediction on players, the winner will be the one who gets the most points in a match.
- Handicap. The bookmaker may suggest that the handicapper bet on a team’s handicap in two positions at once – by wickets knocked and by wounds.
- Exact score and odd/even. Such targeted bets are tailored for gamblers who are certain of their gut, because it is very hard for the casual punter to predict such an outcome.
A serious influence on the forecasts has a format of the competition. Each team is drawn to its favorite kind, in which it demonstrates the best results. Professional punters prefer to bet on cricket in live mode. The match continues long enough and lightning quick decisions from bettors do not require. There is an opportunity to think, watch and make a prediction based on their personal impressions.