Mumbai: The IPL cannot be won on the auction table, but you can easily lose it by taking wrong decisions on the field. There is no need to look ahead of Chennai Super Kings to understand this, which is out this season. The five -time champion team is at the bottom of the points table by becoming the first team to be out of the race of playoffs. In fact, due to poor auction, there are many shortcomings in the Chennai franchise team. Recall the achievement of CSK in the auction in November last year.
CSK retained five players – Rituraj Gaikwad, Shivam Dubey, Matheesha Pathirana, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni – and bought four players – Devon Conway, Rahul Tripathi, R Ashwin and Rachin Ravindra. It is now clear that no player selected in the auction made any significant contribution. Chennai Super Kings retained their proven star players in view of the past, but at a very high price. The amount allocated on this was spent more than 50% of Rs 120 crore.
Jadeja received the most controversial retention. Apart from Dhoni, there is another player who is no longer able to perform at his top level in T20. It is worth noting that CSK had to spend only Rs 4 crore to retain Dhoni, while 36 -year -old Jadeja got 15% i.e. Rs 18 crore for retaining. Retaining Jadeja, calling Ashwin back and buying back to Conway, raises the old philosophy of CSK to invest in players.
Failed to create effective bowling attack
- It is not that CSK has not tried to form a more competitive team. In the early deals, he bought many players from Arshdeep Singh, Mohammad Siraj, Liam Livingstone, Harry Book to KL Rahul.
- However, despite having huge funds, he failed to buy Glenn Maxwell, Jitesh Sharma, Abhinav Manohar and Mukesh Kumar. In the end, he had to be content with Khalil Ahmed, Vijay Shankar, Deepak Hooda and Sam Curren.
- Khalil, Mukesh Chaudhary and Anshul Kamboj bowl in the powerplay. Jamie Overton, who did not bowl with a new ball for England, had to play this role.
- In the era of influential players, other teams have depth in batting, while CSK does not have a single strong player in the lower order. After its disappointing season, CSK started improving its position by including two players in the team. These are 17 -year -old Ayush Mhatre and 22 -year -old Devalad Buis.
Ashwin was priced at Rs 9.75 crore!
Ashwin was selected as an emotional return in the auction. Was his assets at Rs 9.75 crore at the age of 38? His batting has fallen since retiring from international cricket. Their powerplay overs have also been less effective. CONway’s low strike rates reflect their T20 utility. Tripathi has suffered defeat due to the batting form of Tripathi. Swinder has also disappointed after the magnificent 2024 season with CSK. This is why more successful teams want to maintain their core players.
CSK’s 5 worst IPL match in terms of victory
Year match win win defeat place stage stage
2025 11 29 league not clear
2022 14 4 10 league 9/10
2020 14 6 8 league 7/8
2024 14 7 7 League 5 /10
2001 15 8 7 cm 2/8
