A two-day mega auction for IPL 2025 was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In this auction, all the franchises tried to build a strong team for the upcoming season. In this series, five-time champion Chennai Super Kings (CSK) included some new players in the team. He bought Afghan spinner Noor Ahmed for 10 crores, while included veteran Indian off-spinner Ashwin in the team for 9.75 crores. Apart from this, he showed confidence in young Indian players like Anshul Kamboj.
Chennai has now made the squad for the upcoming season, but the fans still want to know whether they will be able to win the title this season and if they want to win the title, what will have to be done for it. So in this article we will tell you what are the strengths of Gaikwad’s team for the upcoming season and where is his team weak. In simple language, we are going to do SWOT analysis of CSK here.
Talking about strength, their top order is looking as strong as ever. They have good batsmen like Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra in the top order. Whereas in the middle order, they have star players like Shivam Dubey and Deepak Hooda. In the auction, they have bought Rahul Tripathi who can prove to be very lethal at number four or number five. Ravindra Jadeja and MS Dhoni will be present to give the finishing touch. So the batting order of CSK looks quite strong. Keeping Chepauk in mind, they have further strengthened their spin department by including Noor Ahmed and R Ashwin.
Talking about weakness, Chennai is clearly lacking a good fast bowler. He retained Mathisa Pathrana, while in the auction he bought fast bowlers like Khalil Ahmed and Sam Curran and Nathan Ellis. But despite all this, Chennai’s pace attack looks weak compared to other teams.
Chennai has expressed confidence in some young players in the mega auction. New energy can be brought to the team by including him in the squad. Since they will have MS Dhoni again for this season, the franchise and team management would like captain Ruturaj Gaikwad to further improve his captaincy under him.
Ruturaj had captained Chennai last season and lack of experience was visible on many occasions as Gaikwad still does not have that much captaincy experience. So this could be a matter of big concern for Chennai. Apart from this, if big players like Dhoni, Jadeja are not in form then it can also cause big loss to the team.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rahul Tripathi, Devon Conway, Mathisha Pathirana, Noor Ahmed, Khaleel Ahmed, MS Dhoni, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, Vijay Shankar, Rachin Ravindra, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sam Curran, Sheikh Rashid, Anshul Kamboj, Mukesh Choudhary, Deepak Hooda , Gurjapaneet Singh, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Nathan Ellis, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddharth, Shreyas Gopal