CSK Squad 2026 – Team, Full Players List, Roles & Overview

Chennai Super Kings walked into the IPL 2026 auction with a purse value of INR 43.40 crore, the second-highest purse among the 10 teams. In the auction, they bid for 16 players and successfully onboarded nine. The five-time champions bought five capped and four uncapped players.

CSK invested INR 14.20 crore each for Kartik Sharma and Prashant Veer. It was the first time CSK spent more than INR 10 crore in the auction for an uncapped player. Kartik is a 19-year-old wicketkeeper-batter from Rajasthan and has played 12 T20 matches so far. He has made 334 runs at a strike rate of 162.92. Prashant, a 20-year-old all-rounder from Uttar Pradesh, made his T20 debut in 2023. He has played nine T20 games for Uttar Pradesh so far and has taken 12 wickets. 

Before the auction, the team retained a total of 16 players. They traded Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran to the Rajasthan Royals in place of Sanju Samson. Dewald Brevis, Ayush Mhatre, and Urvil Patel came as replacement players last season and delivered some exceptional performances. The trio was retained for the upcoming season.

CSK released a few key players who played an important role in the last few years, including the likes of Matheesha Pathirana, Devon Conway, and Rachin Ravindra. Conway was the leading run-scorer for the team in the title-winning season in 2023. Pathirana played for CSK from the 2022 season to 2025 and picked up 47 wickets in 32 games at an average of 21.61.

Players bought in IPL 2026 Auction:

Here is CSK’s squad for IPL 2026:

Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dubel, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, MS Dhoni (wk), Anshul Kamboj, Dewald Brevis, Gurjapneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Jamie Overton, Mukesh, Choudhary, Ramakrishnal, Ghosh, Shreyas Gopal, Ayush Mhatre, Urvil Patel (wk), Zakary Foulkes, Rahul Chahar, Matt Henry, Sarfaraz Khan, Aman Khan, Matthew Short, Kartik Sharma, Prashant Veer, Akeal Hosein