Chennai Super Kings head into the auction with six slots available having retained 19 of their players from the last season. Three of those slots can be used for overseas players. Their starting budget before the auction was INR 31.40 crore.

CSK squad: Full list of released players before auction

Indian: Bhagath Varma, Subhranshu Senapati, Ambati Rayudu (Retired), Akash Singh.

Overseas: Ben Stokes, Dwaine Pretorius, Kyle Jamieson and Sisanda Magala.

CSK squad: Full team list for Chennai Super Kings after IPL 2024 auction

Note – Players bought in the auction have a ‘*’ next to their name

Batters

Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ajinkya Rahane,  Shaik Rasheed

Wicketkeepers

MS Dhoni (c), Devon Conway, Avanish Rao Aravelly* (INR 20 lakh)

All-rounders

Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Nishant Sindhu, Ajay Mandal, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Rachin Ravindra* (INR 1.80 crore), Daryl Mitchell *(INR 14 crore), Sameer Rizvi* (INR 8.40 crore)

Bowlers

Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Choudhary, Simarjeet Singh, Matheesha Pathirana, Tushar Deshpande, Prashant Solanki, Shardul Thakur* (INR 4 crore), Mustafizur Rahman* (INR 2 crore)