The three-times champion of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Chennai Super Kings, have qualified for the playoffs in every season they played so far. CSK is the✅ only team to win two back to back IPL trophies and came close to emulating their own record last y🎃ear.
Once again, the Super Kings will be the strong contenders to lift 🌞the trophy in IPL 2020.
Ahead of the auction, the Chennai-based franchise released five of its players. On the auction day, they bought only four players – two Indians and two overseas.
Here are the key numbers for CSK after the IPL 2020 auction:
Squad Strength: 24
Overseas players: 8
Players bought in auction: ☂4 (Piyush Chawla, Josh Hazlewood, Sam Curran and R Sai Kishore)
Purse remaining: Rs 15 lakh
Full list of CSK players along with their salaries:
| Player | Retained/bought | Price (Rs Cr) |
| MS Dhoni | Retained | 15.00 |
| Suresh Raina | Retained | 11.00 |
| Kedar Jadhav | Retained | 7.80 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | Retained | 7.00 |
| Piyush Chawla | Bought | 6.75 |
| Dwayne Bravo | Retained | 6.40 |
| Sam Curran | Bought | 5.50 |
| Karn Sharma | Retained | 5.00 |
| Shane Watson | Retained | 4.00 |
| Shardul Thakur | Retained | 2.60 |
| Ambati Rayudu | Retained | 2.20 |
| Harbhajan Singh | Retained | 2.00 |
| Josh Hazlewood | Bought | 2.00 |
| Murli Vijay | Retained | 2.00 |
| Faf du Plessis | Retained | 1.60 |
| Imran Tahir | Retained | 1.00 |
| Deepak Chahar | Retained | 0.80 |
| Lungi Ngidi | Retained | 0.50 |
| Mitchell Santner | Retained | 0.50 |
| KM Asif | Retained | 0.40 |
| Monu Kumar | Retained | 0.20 |
| Narayan Jagadeesan | Retained | 0.20 |
| R Sai Kishore (uncapped) | Bought | 0.20 |
| Ruturaj Gaikwad | Retained | 0.20 |
