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Champions CSK Completing Formalities This IPL Auction

The Super Kings only released three players from their title-winning squad, who played a combined total of one game.

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Snapshot
  • IPL 2018 champions Chennai Super Kings with only two spots to fill at the IPL 2019 Auction.
  • CSK retained 23 players from the squad which delivered the franchise a third IPL title in its first season back from a two-year ban.
  • MS Dhoni’s side enter the auction on Tuesday, 18 December, with a purse of Rs 8.40 crore.

Consistency in retention and faith in personnel were traits that typified Chennai Super Kings in their first wind, from the inception of the IPL through to 2015. A two-year ban for corrupt practices on part of their owner put the men in yellow in the wilderness, but the philosophy stayed the same upon return – and was vindicated when MS Dhoni and company lifted the IPL 2018 title.

The ‘Dad’s Army’ proved that experience was worth its weight in T20 gold too, and those seasoned campaigners are being persisted with.

The Super Kings released just three players in the off-season – two of them didn’t feature once last season, and the third, Mark Wood, played one game.

This isn’t a side considering change.

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Bare Basics

  • Auction Purse: Rs 8.40 crore
  • Players in Squad: Total 23, Overseas 8
  • Spots to Fill: Total 2, Overseas 0

Trading Window

In: None

Out: Mark Wood, Kanishk Seth, Kshitiz Sharma.

(Matches played by released players in IPL 2018: 1)

Retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Shane Watson, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Sam Billings, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi.

Needed at IPL 2019 Auction

  • Younger legs (average age of playing XI in 2018 well into the thirties)
  • Domestic spin-bowling back-ups

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