IPL Auction 2020: Ranking the teams according to their buys

#5 Chennai Super Kings

Sam Curran (Picture Courtesy: iplt20.com)

Chennai Super Kings is a team, which has never believed in frequent chopping of the core team. For the same reason, the MS Dhoni-led franchise retained 20 players and went into the auctions with only ₹14.6 crore. This was almost the same squad that reached the finals of the last season, and the franchise only needed to find some backups.

The team procured Australian quick Josh Hazlewood at his base price of ₹2 crore. He is a like-to-like replacement for released David Willey and gives a backup option for Lungi Ngidi and Dwayne Bravo, who are injury-prone.

However, the biggest buy came in the form of England's bowling all-rounder Sam Curran, who was bought at ₹5.5 crore. The Chennai-based franchise had played most of the last season with only three overseas players. With his addition, the team looks to have four excellent foreign options.

The team also bought Piyush Chawala and R Sai Kishore. The two spinners give Captain Cool additional options in the spin department, which already includes the likes of Ravindra Jadeja, Imran Tahir, Mitchell Santner and Harbhajan Singh. However, the team sprung a big surprise by not picking any backup batsman for Shane Watson, who hasn't played much competitve cricket since the last year's IPL.