Ravichandran Ashwin will play for Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2025.
IPL 2024 Mega Auction is taking place on November 24 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A lot of money has been showered on 12 marquee players in the first round. Indian veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was playing for Rajasthan Royals for the last two seasons. Anna will be seen playing for Chennai Super Kings in the upcoming season. The franchise has signed him by bidding Rs 9.75 crore. With this the spinner has returned home after 9 years.
Lucknow, Bengaluru and Rajasthan also bid for Ashwin
Chennai Super Kings made the first bid for Ravichandran Ashwin in the IPL 2025 mega auction. After this, Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore were also seen bidding. Rajasthan Royals also entered the field to get their player back but in the end Chennai won.
Ashwin has taken 120 wickets for Chennai Super Kings
R Ashwin has played 121 matches for Chennai Super Kings, in which he has taken 120 wickets at an average of 23.70 and economy of 6.66. He is the third highest wicket taker for CSK after Dwayne Bravo (154) and Ravindra Jadeja (142).
Ashwin has played for five IPL franchises
Ravichandran Ashwin has represented five franchises so far in his IPL career. He played for Chennai Super Kings from 2008 to 2015. Then in 2016 and 2017, Ashwin was a part of Rising Pune Super Giants. Ashwin played for Punjab Kings from 2018 to 2020 and then for Rajasthan Royals from 2022 to 2024.
How has your IPL career been?
Talking about Ravichandran Ashwin’s IPL career, he has taken 180 wickets in 211 matches at an average of 29.83 and economy of 7.12. His best performance is 4/34. At the same time, Ashwin has also scored 800 runs at an average of 13.33 and strike rate of 118.52, his highest score is 50.