Chennai Super Kings is the most loved team of IPL. And Chennai Super Kings is one of the most successful teams of IPL. After the mega auction, the Chennai Super Kings squad (CSK squad) has been finalized. Let’s analyse the complete squad of Chennai super kings.
Chennai Super Kings have won 5 IPL trophies and they would like to win their 6th trophy this year.
The CSK squad is very well balanced as it has a good mix of experienced players and young talent.
CSK squad : Full list of players bought in mega auction
Before going into the mega auction, CSk had spent 65 crores to retain its 5 players And now they had Rs 55 crore left to complete his entire squad.
lets have a look at Chennai super kings squad of IPL 2025.
| S.NO | Name | Price (INR) |
| 1 | Ravindra Jadeja (Retained) | 18 cr |
| 2 | Ruturaj Gaikwad (Retained) | 18 cr |
| 3 | Shivam Dube (Retained) | 12 cr |
| 4 | Matheehsa Pathirana (Retained) | 13 cr |
| 5 | MS Dhoni (Retained) | 4 cr |
| 6 | Noor Ahmed | 10 cr |
| 7 | Ravichandran Ashwin | 9.75 cr |
| 8 | Devon Conway | 6.25 cr |
| 9 | khaleel Ahmed | 4.80 cr |
| 10 | Rachin Ravindra | 4 cr |
| 11 | Rahul Tripathi | 3.40 cr |
| 12 | Anshul Kamboj | 3.40 cr |
| 13 | Sam Curran | 2.40 cr |
| 14 | Gurjapneet Singh | 2.20 cr |
| 15 | Nathan Ellis | 2 cr |
| 16 | Deepak Hooda | 1.70 cr |
| 17 | Jamie Overton | 1.50 cr |
| 18 | Vijay Shankar | 1.20 cr |
| 19 | Vansh Bedi | 55 lakh |
| 20 | Shaik Rasheed | 30 lakh |
| 21 | Mukesh Choudhary | 30 lakh |
| 22 | Kamlesh Nagarkoti | 30 lakh |
| 23 | Ramakrishna Gosh | 30 lakh |
| 24 | Andre Siddharth | 30 lakh |
| 25 | Shreyas Gopal | 30 lakh |
Chennai super kings spent almost all their money in their mega auction, they spent 119.95 cr out of 120 cr from which they bought 25 players.
Chennai Super Kings is a team that has been performing consistently and their squad this year also shows that they are a very good and balanced team.
Retained players
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) has retained 5 players before entering the mega auction on which they spent 65 crores rupees from Rs 120 crore.
- Ravindra Jadeja 18 cr
- Ruturaj Gaikwad 18 cr
- Matheehsa Pathirana 13 cr
- Shivam Dube 12 cr
- MS Dhoni 4 cr
So these were the retained players who were retained by CSK before going to the mega auction.
CSK spent 65 crores on his retained players and now they had only 55 crores left to enter the mega auction
However, Dhoni was retained by the franchise for Rs 4 crore due to the new IPL rules which stats that “Any player who has not played international cricket for some time and has not been in a central contract in the last five years will be considered uncapped.”
Released players
Chennai Super Kings were looking for a balanced team and had to release a lot of players to enter the mega auction. Chennai Super Kings released all their players except 5 main players.
- Moeen Ali
- Deepak Chahar
- Tushar Deshpande
- Rajwardhan Hangargekar
- Ajay Mandal
- Mukesh Choudhary
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Shaik Rasheed
- Mitchell Santner
- Simarjeet Singh
- Nishant Sindhu
- Prashant Solanki
- Maheesh Theekshana
- Rachin Ravindra
- Shardul Thakur
- Daryl Mitchell
- Sameer Rizvi
- Mustafizur Rahman
- Richard Gleeson
- Avanish Rao Aravelley
- Devon Conway
Csk retained its core players like Ravindra Jadeja, Dhoni, Rituraj Gaikwad and released all the other players.CSK released 21 players from their squad.
It was very shocking that they released Deepak Chahar. Although they wanted to bring Deepak Chahar back to the team by taking him in the mega auction but they could not do so.
However, they brought back some players in team like Devon Covey, Rachin Ravindra, Shaik Rashid, Mukesh Choudhary etc. They used Right to match card on Rachin Ravindra.
probable Playing 11 of CSK for IPL 2025
Chennai Super King’s squad seems to be a very balanced squad because it has many options of batting bowling, all-rounder, wicketkeeper as well as backup.
| S.NO | Players | Role |
| 1 | Ruturaj Gaikwad | Batsman |
| 2 | Devon Conway | Batsman |
| 3 | Rahul Tripathi | Batsman |
| 4 | Shivam Dube | All-rounder |
| 5 | Ravindra jadeja | All-rounder |
| 6 | MS Dhoni | (wk) Batsman |
| 7 | Sam Curran | All-rounder |
| 8 | Ravichandran Ashwin | All-rounder |
| 9 | Noor Ahmed | Bowler |
| 10 | Matheehsa Pathirana | Bowler |
| 11 | Khaleel Ahmed | Bowler |
| 12 | Rachin Ravindra / Deepak Hooda / Nathan Ellis / Anshul Kamboj | Impact Player |
The overall squad looks very good, the playing 11 is also very good with four impact players. But if you take a look at this entire squad, you will notice one thing that is lacking here and that is power hitting.
MS Dhoni, Shivam Dube, these are two such players who can hit big shots, but apart from this, if you see, all others are such players who can just run the game or can hit some shots, there is no such player who is destroying the opponents from start to end.
although the squad is looking pretty good
Chennai Super Kings squad analysis
If you look at this 25 player-squad, it looks like a very balanced and excellent squad but cricket is a game of action. Chennai Super Kings squad is a mix of young talent and experience players.
Chennai Super Kings did not went for any big player or big name in the mega auction, so they got whatever they wanted, except Deepak Chahar, so lets analyse this Squad.
Batting line-up
Chennai Super Kings batting order has a lot of options in the form of openers, middle order and finishers such as
- Rachin Ravindra
- Devon Conway
- Ruturaj Gaikwad
- MS Dhoni
- Rahul Tripathi
- Shivam Dube
- Deepak Hooda
- Yash Bedi
- Andre Siddharth
- Shaik Rasheed
- Ravindra jadeja
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- Sam Curran
- Ramakrishna Gosh
If you look at the batting order, there is a lot of depth in the batting order , they gets a lot of options in the batting line-up, a lot of variety is available, a mix of players who should be there in a complete team’s squad
Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway will open the ininng and they have Rachin Ravindra as backup opener.
In the middle order Rahul Tripathi, MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja and sam Curran will learn but they have Deepak Hooda, Anshul Kamboj, Yash Bedi as backup players who can provide a good value to the team.
Bowling line-up
Chennai Super Kings have a lot of options in bowling. Chennai Super Kings have the experience of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in bowling and they also have a lot of youngsters.
We can divide the bowling of Chennai Super King into two parts- spin department and pace department.
Spin Bowling
The spin bowling of Chennai Super Kings has always been effective. And half of the matches of Chennai Super Kings are going to be held in the home ground of Chennai Super Kings (MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai ) which is a very good ground for spin bowling.
The main spin bowler of Chennai Super Kings are as follows.
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- Ravindra jadeja
- Noor Ahmed
- Rachin Ravindra
- Shreyas Gopal
These are the 5 quality spinners that CSK have in there squad for this IPL season. The spin department looks very good and effective. let’s talk about CSk pace bowling attack.
Pace Bowling
The pace department of Chennai Super Kings is ok ok it is not too good. First we look at the bowlers they have, then we see what are their strengths and weaknesses.
- Matheehsa Pathirana
- Khaleel Ahmed
- Sam Curran
- Mukesh Choudhary
- Jamie Overton
- Nathan Ellis
- Gurjapneet Singh
- Kamlesh Nagarkoti
- Anshul Kamboj
- Ramakrishna Gosh
If you look at the bowling attack of Chennai Super Kings, they have a lot of variety and a lot of options. Overall CSK’s bowling is very good as they have Matheehsa Pathirana ,on the other hand Nathan Ellis is also performing very well for Australia.
But if you look from the other side, you will notice that Deepak Chahar is not there for you with the new ball and you do not have Tushar Deshpande in death bowling.
So it will be interesting to see how the captain makes his bowlers bowl in the death overs and with the new ball.
FAQ
Who is the head coach of CSK?
stephen fleming is the head coach of Chennai super kings and he is the most successful coach as he returned to CSK in 2018 and CSK won the Trophy in 2018 and in 2021 and 2023 respectively under stephen fleming coaching.
Who is the Captain of Chennai super kings (CSK)?
Ruturaj Gaikwad is the captain of Chennai super kings. As the new era begins the new generation is taking place. Ruturaj Gaikwad is very lucky that he will captain MS Dhoni and will receive Dhoni’s guidance and experience.
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