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Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians: What is the secret of success?

Like the Spanish football league La Liga, only two teams are discussed - FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. In the same way, only two teams dominate the IPL. There are many teams playing in LaLiga, but these are the two teams that win, in the same way there are 8 teams playing in the IPL, but only these 2 teams dominates. Yes. We are talking about Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians. On one hand, while Mumbai Indians have won the IPL title 4 times, on the other hand Chennai Super Kings have won the IPL Trophy thrice. These two teams are like two girls of the same class but only one of the two girls stands 1st . The rest of the children come on the result day just to see who came first among those two girls. It is now being decided in the IPL that Chennai Super Kings will reach the finals every year and Mumbai Indians will win the IPL every second year.
After winning the IPLs of 2013, 2015, 2017, people felt that this was just a coincidence, but after winning the 2019 IPL, Mumbai showed everyone that there is no doubt, there is really a lot of potential inside this team. So on the other hand, when Chennai Super Kings came back after a 2-year ban, they took such players in the 2018 auction, after which people thought that where would CSK be able to play with the army of old men. This team has fewer players and more coaches. Most of the players that CSK bought in that auction were in their 30s. But it happened completely opposite. The IPL of CSK 2018 was won with that army of old men. CSK showed that experience cannot be bought with money. After that IPL, all the critics of this team were silenced.
If experts are to be believed, the main reason for the success of Chennai Super Kings is Mahendra Singh Dhoni. This is the only team that has only one captain since season 1. CSK performs so well because of MS Dhoni's vicious mind and experience. You will be surprised to know one thing that CSK head coach Stephen Fleming, bowling coach Laxmipathy Balaji and batting coach Michael Hussey. All three have played for CSK, that too under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. And today they are coaching the same team. The main reason for success of CSK and MI is to back up their players. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, DJ Bravo, Faf du Plessis have been playing for this team for many years. Same story is also of MI. Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Lasith Malinga, Kirron Pollard, Jaspreet Bumrah. These players have been playing for MI for many years. That is, their core team remains set and the rest of the players change.
Unlike them, other teams like KXIP, DD, RR, RCB do not set their core team. Its not an interview, if you do not like the one you call for Next. Look at the Kings XI Punjab, it seems that this team only comes to the auction to buy players. And in the next IPL they release all the palyers and buy new ones. The other teams should also learn from CSK and MI. 
Now the thing to see is what happens in the upcoming IPL? A new team wins the IPL or it is won by either of the two teams Chennai Super Kings or Mumbai Indians.
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