Chennai Super Kings, who are retur🗹ning to the Indian Premier League (IPL) after serving a ban of two-years, tried to retain their core again.
MS Dhoni, the former Indian skipper, who had won two IPL t🌌itles for the side, was the first player to be retained by CSK, along with Ravindra J🦋adeja and Suresh Raina.
Even in the IPL 2018 auctioꦉn, they used their two RTMs to bring back Dwayne Bravo and Faf du Plessis.
In total, CSK fra🐬nchise bought 22 players at the auction and now have a squad of 25 players, including eight overseas players to choose from going into IPL 2018.
List of players bought by the CSK at the IPL 2018 auction:
- Kedar Jadhav – ₹7.8 crore
- Dwayne Bravo – ₹6.4 crore
- Karn Sharma – ₹5 crore
- Shane Watson- ₹4 crore
- Shardul Thakur – ₹2.6 crore
- Ambati Rayudu – ₹2.2 crore
- Harbhajan Singh – ₹2 crore
- Murali Vijay – ₹2 crore
- Faf Du Plessis – ₹1.6 crore
- Mark Wood – ₹1.5 crore
- Imran Tahir – ₹1 crore
- Sam Billings – ₹1 crore
- Deepak Chahar – ₹80 lakh
- Mitchell Santner – ₹50 lakh
- Lungisani Ngidi – ₹50 lakh
- Asif K M – ₹40 lakh
- N Jagadeesan – ₹20 lakh
- Kanishk Seth – ₹20 lakh
- Monu Singh – ₹20 lakh
- Dhruv Shorey – ₹20 lakh
- Kshitiz Sharma – ₹20 lakh
- Chaitanya Bishnoi – ₹20 lakh
Despite the fact that they filled their complete quota of players in the squad, they ended the auction with a ba꧋lance of ₹6.5 crore in the bank, which was the most by any side.
