Chennai Super Kings is the most regular member in the IPL Playoffs table as the Chennai-based franchise has qualified in the Top 4 of every IPL season that it has played. MS Dhoni has been the captain of the team since day one and the team management has believed in retaining its core for every season.
Several great batsmen like Matthew Hayden, Micheal Hussey, Stephen Fleming, Shane Watson, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, and others have played for CSK over the last 12 years. However, in cricket, not every day is the same for a player. One day, a player will score a hundred, and the other day, he can even get out for a duck. Because of this nature of cricket, even the big names of the game have lost their wickets for a duck in IPL.
In this article, we will have a look at the top five players with most ducks for CSK in IPL history.
5.Lakshmipathy Balaji – 3 ducks
Many players who have batted for Chennai Super Kings have registered three ducks in IPL, but Lakshmipathy Balaji attained the fifth spot in this list because he did so in only 8 innings.
Balaji played in 29 IPL matches for Chennai Super Kings, where he got an opportunity to bat eight times. Out of them, Balaji got out for a duck thrice. His highest score was 15*.
4.Shane Watson – 4 ducks
Although Shane Watson joined the Chennai Super Kings team recently, the Australian all-rounder has already recorded one duck more than the team’s captain, MS Dhoni.
Dhoni has three ducks to his name in ten seasons for CSK, whereas Watson has four ducks in two seasons. Still, one cannot forget the century scored by Watson in IPL 2018 final.
3.Parthiv Patel – 4 ducks
Another opening batsman who recorded four scores of zero while playing for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL is the left-handed batsman from Ahmedabad, Parthiv Patel.
The southpaw played a few seasons for CSK, where he scored 516 runs at a strike rate of 102.79. He got out for a duck four times, while he scored three fifties.
2.Subramaniam Badrinath – 6 ducks
Subramaniam Badrinath was once a regular member of the Chennai Super Kings playing XI. The right-handed batsman featured in 95 IPL games for the MS Dhoni-led outfit.
In those games, he batted in 67 innings. Badrinath scored 1,441 runs for Chennai, including 11 fifties. However, he also departed to the pavilion six times without opening his account. It is noteworthy that Badrinath finished not out 20 times out of 67 innings for CSK.
1.Suresh Raina – 8 ducks
The man who has played the most matches for Chennai Super Kings in IPL sits at the top of this list with 8 ducks in 164 IPL games for the 3-time IPL champions.
Raina will miss IPL 2020, but he is the all-time highest run-scorer for CSK. Since he has played so much cricket for Chennai, he has also recorded eight ducks in the yellow jersey. The team management is still optimistic that Raina could make his return for the second phase of IPL 2020. The left-handed batsman has scored 4,527 runs in 160 IPL innings for Chennai.
