IPL: Chennai Super Kings's first ever IPL XI- Where are they now?

#3 Michael Hussey

In Chennai Super Kings maiden IPL match, Mr. Cricket "Michael Hussey" scored the second century of the IPL. Hussey smashed Kings XI Punjab bowlers to all corners of the stadium, by scoring a match winning unbeaten 116 runs off just 54 balls, containing 8 fours and 9 sixes.

Just like his counterpart Matthew Hayden, Hussey played just 4 matches in the inaugural edition of IPL for Chennai Super Kings. But in the 4 matches he played, Hussey scored 168 runs at an excellent average of 56, with a superb strike rate of 168 and hit 11 sixes.

Michael Hussey was a relative latecomer to international cricket, having debuted at the age of 28 and 30 years in Australian ODI and Test team respectively, having scored more 15,000 runs in first class cricket before he made his Test debut. Hussey had a highly successful international career and was even top ranked ODI batsman of the world in 2006, and retired from international cricket at the end of December 2012.

Michael Hussey was part of Chennai Super Kings from 2008-2013 and even won the Orange cap in IPL 2013. In 2014 IPL, Hussey played for Mumbai Indians and retired from all forms of cricket after the completion of Big Bash 2015-16.

Currently, Michael Hussey is back in IPL as the batting coach of Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2018.

#4 MS Dhoni (C)

India's most successful Captain MS Dhoni did not have a good first game for Chennai Super Kings with the bat. Dhoni scored just 2 runs and was dismissed by James Hopes in 7th over. But, Dhoni had a fairly successful IPL 2008 with the bat, and was Chennai's 2nd highest run scorer in the tournament behind Suresh Raina, with 414 runs from 16 matches at an average of 41.4 with a strike rate of 133.5, and led Chennai Super Kings to the finals of IPL 2008.

Dhoni made his Indian ODI debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh and made his Test debut against Sri Lanka in December 2005. In 2007, Dhoni was appointed as the captain of the Indian T20 team for the inaugural T20 World Cup, when then Captain Rahul Dravid decided not to participate in the inaugural T20 World Cup. After India successfully won inaugural T20 World Cup under Dhoni, the BCCI appointed Dhoni as a permanent captain of Indian team in ODI, after Dravid resigned from captaincy post in late 2007.

In late 2008, Dhoni become the captain of Indian Test team after the retirement of Anil Kumble and was the captain of the till his retirement from test cricket in December 2014. After his retirement from Test cricket, Dhoni stepped down as a captain in ODI and T20 format in January 2017.

Dhoni is the only player in the history of International Cricket to have won all the ICC Tournaments as a captain, and is widely regarded by many cricket pundits as the best finisher in the limited overs format.

In IPL, Dhoni has been the Captain of Chennai Super Kings since the inaugural edition, and played for Rising Pune Supergiant from 2016-2017 and even captained them in IPL 2016, when Chennai Super Kings were suspended for two years by BCCI.