-Vinay Kumar
The upcoming season of league cricket, IPL 2022 will start in the last week of March. Before this tournament, IPL Mega Auction-2022 was to be held. Mega auction was held on 12th and 13th February. In which the auction will be held on 12 February. On this day many players were bidding and bidding fiercely from all the 10 teams of IPL and buying players. On the first day of the auction on Saturday, one thing was seen that the franchise is showing more confidence in the old players who have played for their team and is making every effort to buy them in the auction. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) bought swing bowler Deepak Chahar for a whopping sum of Rs 14 crores.
Significantly, Deepak Chahar is the most expensive player ever bought by the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) franchise in the auction. Now only 20 crore 85 lakh rupees are left in the account of Chennai Super Kings for this auction. Let’s take a look at which players CSK is keeping an eye on in this latest auction.
Deepak Chahar
Deepak Chahar has become the most expensive player ever bought by Chennai Super Kings in the IPL auction. Significantly, Deepak Chahar has done well for Chennai Super Kings (CSK). With his swing fast bowling, he has always gifted Yellow Army captain MS Dhoni (MS Dhoni Captain CSK) by taking wickets in the powerplay. ‘Yellow Army’ bought Deepak for Rs 14 crore.
Ambati Rayudu
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have once again relied on Ambati Rayudu to strengthen the batting middle order. Looking at Rayudu’s experience, the franchise has bought him at a bid of Rs 6 crore 75 lakh. It is worth noting that Ambati Rayudu had kept his base price for the mega auction at Rs 2 crore. Sunrisers Hyderabad also showed interest during the auction.
Dwayne Bravo
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) bought West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo for Rs 4 crore 40 lakh. It is worth noting that Bravo has performed brilliantly for CSK in the last season. Not only this, he is also the highest wicket-taker in IPL.
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Robin Uthappa
Chennai Super Kings has once again bought Robin Uthappa for his base price, Rs 2 crore, giving priority to experience. He played a big role in making CSK the champion in IPL 2021.
CSK has retained these 4 players
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) retained 4 players before IPL Mega Auction-2022. Those players include captain MS Dhoni, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali and young opener Rituraj Gaikwad.
CSK retained the maximum for Rs 16 crore, preferring Ravindra Jadeja over Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The franchise has retained MS Dhoni for Rs 12 crore, Moeen Ali for Rs 8 crore and Ruturaj Gaikwad for Rs 6 crore.
Chennai Super Kings captain, coach and owner
Captain: MS Dhoni
Owner: Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd.
Head Coach: Stephen Fleming
Batting Coach: Michael Hussey
Bowling Coach: Lakshmipathy Balaji
Fielding Coach: Rajeev Kumar