Chennai Super Kings spent Rs 41 crore to buy 9 players in IPL 2026. The franchise spent more than Rs 28 crore on 2 uncapped players. The salary of both will be more than 3 times that of MS Dhoni. The team’s squad of 25 players has been completed, Rs 2 crore 40 lakh is also left in the purse.
Chennai Super Kings had included Sanju Samson in their team through trade before the IPL 2026 auction. Sanju’s salary is Rs 18 crore. Including Samson, CSK had retained a total of 16 players, out of which 4 were foreigners. The slots of 9 players of the team were vacant, which have now been filled.
CSK’s most expensive player in IPL 2026 auction
Karthik Sharma and Prashant Veer were the most expensive players bought by Chennai Super Kings in the IPL 2026 auction. Both are uncapped players, whose base price was only Rs 30 lakh. But other teams also showed interest in him, due to which his price kept increasing. Chennai bought Karthik for Rs 14.2 crore and Prashant for Rs 14.2 crore, which means the franchise spent a total of Rs 28.4 crore on these two players.
Chennai Super Kings Squad 2026 (With Price)
- Anshul Kamboj (Retained) – 3.4 crores
- Gurjapneet Singh (Retained) – 2.2 crores
- Jamie Overton (Retained) – Rs 1.5 crore
- MS Dhoni (Retained) – 4 crores
- Mukesh Chaudhary (Retained) – 30 lakhs
- Nathan Ellis (Retained) – Rs 2 crore
- Noor Ahmed (Retained) – Rs 10 crore
- Ramakrishna Ghosh (retained) – 30 lakhs
- Sanju Samson (Trade) – 18 crores
- Ruturaj Gaikwad (Retained) – 18 crores
- Shivam Dubey (Retained) – 12 crores
- Ayush Mhatre (Ret.) – 30 lakhs
- Dewald Brevis (retained) – 2.2 crores
- Urvil Patel (Retained) – 30 lakhs
- Khaleel Ahmed (Retained) – 4.8 crores
- Shreyas Gopal (Retained) – 30 lakhs
- Akeal Hosein (Sold) – 2 Crore
- Prashant Veer (Sold) – 14.2 crores
- Karthik Sharma (Sold) – 14.2 crores
- Matthew Short (Sold) – Rs 1.5 crore
- Aman Khan (Sold) – 40 lakhs
- Sarfaraz Khan (Sold) – 75 lakhs
- Matt Henry (Sold) – Rs 2 crore
- Rahul Chahar (Sold) – Rs 5.2 crore
- Zachary Foulkes (Sold) – 75 lakhs
Bought these players including Sarfaraz at base price
Chennai Super Kings bought Sarfaraz Khan, Matt Henry, Akeal Hosein, Matthew Short and Zakari Foulkes at their base price in the IPL 2026 auction.
