From a total purse of Rs 47 crores, Chennai Super Kings spent Rs 40.5 to buy 22 players across the two days at IPL Auction 2018.
Rs 7.8 crore, middle order batsman Kedar Jadhav was the two-time champions costliest buy who had retained MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja ahead of the auction.
CSK SQUAD
MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, Dwayne Bravo. Karn Sharma, Shane Watson, Shardul Thakur, Ambati Rayudu, Murali Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Faf Du Plessis, Mark Wood, Sam Billings, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Mitchell Santner, Lungisani Ngidi, Asif K M, N Jagadeesan, Kanishk Seth, Monu Singh, Dhruv Shorey, Kshitiz Sharma, Chaitanya Bishnoi.