Chennai Super Kings played 16 matches in the 2008 Indian Premier League, winning 9 and losing 7 for 18 points.
The squad numbered 26 players, 22 of them with a confirmed shirt number.
- Played
- 16
- Won
- 9
- Lost
- 7
- Points
- 18
- Highest total
- 240
Squad
| No. | Player | Role | Mat | Runs | Wkts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Suresh Raina | Batter | 16 | 421 | 1 |
| 6 | Abhinav Mukund | Batter | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Wicket-keeper | 16 | 414 | 0 |
| 8 | Muttiah Muralitharan | Bowler | 15 | 0 | 11 |
| 9 | Parthiv Patel | Wicket-keeper | 13 | 302 | 0 |
| 10 | Anirudha Srikkanth | Batter | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | Lakshmipathy Balaji | Bowler | 9 | 0 | 11 |
| 12 | Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan | Batter | 9 | 145 | 1 |
| 13 | Joginder Sharma | Bowler | 8 | 16 | 8 |
| 14 | Ravichandran Ashwin | Bowler | – | – | – |
| 16 | Makhaya Ntini | Bowler | 9 | 11 | 7 |
| 17 | Sudeep Tyagi | Bowler | – | – | – |
| 21 | Palani Amarnath | Bowler | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 24 | Jacob Oram | All-rounder | 4 | 18 | 3 |
| 25 | Shadab Jakati | Bowler | – | – | – |
| 28 | Matthew Hayden | Batter | 4 | 189 | 0 |
| 33 | Subramaniam Badrinath | Batter | 16 | 192 | 0 |
| 42 | Arun Karthik | Batter | – | – | – |
| 43 | Stephen Fleming | Batter | 10 | 196 | 0 |
| 48 | Michael Hussey | Batter | 4 | 168 | 0 |
| 76 | Manpreet Gony | Bowler | 16 | 35 | 17 |
| 81 | Albie Morkel | All-rounder | 13 | 241 | 17 |
| – | Chamara Kapugedera | Batter | 5 | 16 | 0 |
| – | Napoleon Einstein | All-rounder | – | – | – |
| – | Selvam Suresh Kumar | All-rounder | – | – | – |
| – | Viraj Kadbe | Bowler | – | – | – |
Shirt numbers for 4 of these players are not recorded in any reliable source for this season.