IPL 2019 Auction: Who did Chennai Super Kings bought in 2019 IPL Player Auction
IPL 2019 Auction: The 2019 IPL Player Auction will take place on December 18 with 351 players going under the hammer. However, there are only 70 remaining slots in the eight IPL franchises. 228 Indians and 123 international players are included in the short list for IPL auction this year. These names were decided on the basis of the lists submitted by the eight IPL franchises.
For IPL 2019 auction, the salary cap has been raised from Rs 80 to Rs 82 crores for the eight teams. The auction hammer will be yielded not by the known face of Richard Madley but by Hugh Edmeades for the 12th season of IPL.
Here is where defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) stand before the IPL 2019 Auction
Retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Billings, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi
Released: Mark Wood, Kanishk Seth, Kshitiz Sharma
Salary cap available: Rs 8.40 crore
Available slots: 2 (Indian 2, Overseas 0)
1. IPL Auction 2019: What CSK need
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What Chennai Super Kings need: Chennai are the most settled going into this year’s auction. They don't need to do much at the auction.
Players CSK could target at IPL auction 2019: Varun Aaron or Aniket Chaudhary
2. Mohit Sharma
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Mohit Sharma will return to Chennai Super Kings. It was the first bid from CSK and Delhi Capitals, KXIP, and MI were also interested. However, MI and CKS entered into a bidding war before Sharma was sold to CSK for Rs 5 crore.
3. Ruturaj Gaikwad
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The second player CSK bough was Ruturaj Gaikwad. Gaikwad is an opening batsman who plays for Maharsatra, He has so far played 5 T20s in his professional career scoring 137 runs at a strike rate of 137.89.
4. IPL 2019: Chennai Super Kings complete squad
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MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Billings, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Mohit Sharma
