Chennai Super Kings – A team that will go down in Indian Premier League history as one of the most popular and successful franchises. With five (5) titles to their name until IPL 2025, they’re the joint most successful team in IPL history, along with Mumbai Indians. Over the years, Suresh Raina, Matthew Hayden, Murali Vijay, Shane Watson, and many other legends have represented the team in yellow.
All Chennai Super Kings players names
We’ve put up a ridiculously long list of each and every one of the 151 players to have represented Chennai Super Kings from IPL 2008 till IPL 2025, (last updated on 3rd May 2025). The winners of IPL 2010, IPL 2011, IPL 2018, IPL 2021, and IPL 2023 have had some stalwarts in their squads over time, some of whom became icons at the club, while others only managed to get a few games here and there.
Complete CSK players list all-time
The original CSK squad of IPL 2008 had 25 players in it, with Sudeep Tyagi being withdrawn from the squad due to a back injury. The side was captained by none other than wicket-keeper batsman MS Dhoni who continues to do so even in IPL 2025. They had a good balance of overseas players, while there were three 18-year old kids who were also a part of the CSK IPL 2008 squad.
The Aussie duo of Matthew Hayden and Michael Hussey lit up the IPL right from the start as CSK made 240 runs against Punjab in their first IPL game in history, where Hussey scored an unbeaten 116 in 54 deliveries. South Africa’s Albie Morkel and New Zealand’s Jacob Oram provided the all-round support while Sri Lankan spin wizard Muthiah Muralidaran picked up 1/33 on his IPL debut. See our full list of CSK players below:
IPL 2008 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 1 | MS Dhoni (C) | 2008-2025 | 268 | 5,269 | – |
| 2 | Srikkanth Anirudha | 2008-2013 | 25 | 184 | – |
| 3 | Arun Karthik | 2008-2010 | 1 | 3 | – |
| 4 | Subramaniam Badrinath | 2008-2013 | 114 | 1,667 | – |
| 5 | Stephen Fleming | 2008 | 10 | 196 | – |
| 6 | Matthew Hayden | 2008-2010 | 34 | 1,117 | – |
| 7 | Michael Hussey | 2008-2015 | 64 | 2,213 | – |
| 8 | Chamara Kapugedera | 2008 | 5 | 16 | – |
| 9 | Abhinav Mukund | 2008-2012 | 2 | 0 | – |
| 10 | Parthiv Patel | 2008-2010 | 26 | 516 | – |
| 11 | Suresh Raina (C) | 2008-2021 | 200 | 5,529 | 36 |
| 12 | Ravichandran Ashwin | 2008-2025 | 128 | 300 | 125 |
| 13 | Joginder Sharma | 2008-2011 | 16 | 36 | 12 |
| 14 | Albie Morkel | 2008-2013 | 92 | 909 | 91 |
| 15 | Jacob Oram | 2008-2009 | 15 | 106 | 8 |
| 16 | Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan | 2008 | 9 | 145 | 1 |
| 17 | Manpreet Gony | 2008-2010 | 26 | 50 | 23 |
| 18 | Lakshmipathy Balaji | 2008-2010 | 34 | 22 | 36 |
| 19 | Shadab Jakati | 2008-2012 | 55 | 27 | 48 |
| 20 | Makhaya Ntini | 2008 | 9 | 11 | 7 |
| 21 | Muthiah Muralidaran | 2008-2010 | 46 | 9 | 52 |
| 22 | Palani Amarnath | 2008 | 6 | – | 7 |
| 23 | Suresh Kumar | – | – | – | – |
| 24 | Napoleon Einstein | – | – | – | – |
| 25 | Viraj Kadbe | – | – | – | – |
Many cricket fans and experts will talk about how CSK has always backed their players, and they are the team with the least amount of team combination changes through any particular season. They showed the same as each IPL auction, making minimum changes whenever there’s been a squad shuffle. And that’s why they have had among the least players representing the team over the 18 years of IPL, as compared to other IPL franchises.
Australians who have been a part of CSK
1. Matthew Hayden
2. Miachel Hussey
3. George Bailey
4. Doug Bollinger
5. Ben Hilfenhaus
6. Dirk Nannes
7. Ben Laughlin
8. David Hussey
9. John Hastings
10. Andrew Tye
11. Shane Watson
12. Josh Hazlewood
13. Jason Behrendorff pic.twitter.com/an3InhlVTW— Dravidasthan-Times DMK CSK (@dt_dmk_csk_mklb) January 17, 2024
This was also visible at every auction including the IPL 2012 auction, where they had only one new name in all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, picked up from the Rajasthan Royals. RCB had 230+ players at the same time that CSK had only 151, with minimal changes each year. The CSK captains list is also the smallest from all IPL teams, with only 4 players to have led CSK till date – MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, and Ruturaj Gaikwad.
IPL 2009 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 26 | George Bailey | 2009-2010 | 4 | 63 | – |
| 27 | Murali Vijay | 2009-2020 | 89 | 2,205 | – |
| 28 | Andrew Flintoff | 2009 | 3 | 62 | 2 |
| 29 | Thilan Thushara | 2009-2010 | 6 | 12 | 8 |
| 30 | Sudeep Tyagi | 2009-2010 | 14 | 3 | 6 |
From this complete list of CSK players from start till date, none other than captain MS Dhoni has played the most number of career matches for CSK, with as many as 268 games under his belt. The only other player to have 200+ matches for CSK is Suresh Raina (200 games), while Ravindra Jadeja is close behind (196 games). Among the overseas players, Dwayne Bravo has represented CSK the most number of times – 130 games.
Many were unfortunate to have been picked for CSK but never get a game, while others weren’t able to achieve their full potential with the franchise. For example, English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff was picked in the IPL 2009 auction for a whopping fee of ₹7.6 Crore only to withdraw due to injury, having played only 3 games for them where he scored 62 runs and took 2 wickets.
IPL 2010 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 31 | Hemang Badani | – | – | – | – |
| 32 | Justin Kemp | 2010 | 7 | 38 | 3 |
| 33 | Thisara Perera | 2010 | 1 | – | 0 |
| 33 | Doug Bollinger | 2010-2012 | 41 | 38 | 55 |
| 33 | Chandrasekar Ganapathy | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
IPL 2011 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 34 | Faf du Plessis | 2011-2021 | 100 | 2,932 | 1 |
| 35 | Wriddhiman Saha | 2011-2013 | 21 | 164 | – |
| 36 | Kuthethurshri Vasudevadas | – | – | – | – |
| 37 | Dwayne Bravo | 2011-2022 | 130 | 1,280 | 154 |
| 38 | Yo Mahesh | 2011-2012 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| 39 | Scott Styris | 2011 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 40 | Ganapathi Vignesh | – | – | – | – |
| 41 | Ben Hilfenhaus | 2011-2014 | 21 | 7 | 26 |
| 42 | Nuwan Kulasekara | 2011-2012 | 7 | 23 | 6 |
| 43 | Suraj Randiv | 2011 | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| 44 | Tim Southee | 2011 | 5 | – | 4 |
Suresh Raina may very well end as the highest run scorer of all-time for CSK, with 5,529 runs under his belt, while Dhoni is close behind with 5,200+ runs. Among the overseas players, Faf du Plessis has scored the most runs for the yellow army, with 2,932 runs un 100 games for CSK. A total of 86 players have scored at least 1 run for CSK over the years in the competition.
Some of these players even represented CSK during the Champions League T20, between 2010 to 2014 till it was scrapped. CSK won two titles in the CLT20 as well, under MS Dhoni. A special mention goes out to Kiwi batter Stephen Fleming who played the inaugural edition in IPL 2008, and then went on to join the coaching staff (Head Coach), where he has remained loyally till date.
IPL 2012 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 45 | Ravindra Jadeja (C) | 2012-2025 | 196 | 2,236 | 149 |
IPL 2013 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 46 | Baba Aparajith | – | – | – | – |
| 47 | Akila Dananjaya | – | – | – | – |
| 48 | Jason Holder | 2013 | 11 | 0 | 6 |
| 49 | Chris Morris | 2013 | 17 | 40 | 17 |
| 50 | Vijay Shankar | 2013-2025 | 7 | 118 | – |
| 51 | Imtiaz Ahmed | – | – | – | – |
| 52 | Ben Laughlin | 2013 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 53 | Ronit More | 2013-2015 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 54 | Dirk Nannes | 2013 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 55 | Ankit Rajpoot | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 56 | Ravi Karthikeyan | – | – | – | – |
| 57 | Mohit Sharma | 2013-2019 | 58 | 29 | 69 |
Another loyal servant of CSK over time has been Michael Hussey who played 64 games between 2008-2015 and is now the Batting Coach of the franchise. With 31 First Class centuries to his name, the person who would’ve felt most unfortunate would be Abhinav Mukund who was with CSK for 3 seasons between 2008-2012, but only got 2 games, where he batted once and bagged a golden duck.
IPL 2014 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 58 | Brendon McCullum | 2014-2015 | 33 | 968 | – |
| 59 | John Hastings | 2014 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 60 | David Hussey | 2014 | 5 | 116 | 2 |
| 61 | Mithun Manhas | 2014 | 13 | 53 | – |
| 62 | Dwayne Smith | 2014-2015 | 37 | 1,025 | 5 |
| 63 | Samuel Badree | 2014 | 4 | – | 2 |
| 64 | Matt Henry | – | – | – | – |
| 65 | Pawan Negi | 2014-2015 | 14 | 124 | 13 |
| 66 | Ashish Nehra | 2014-2015 | 25 | 1 | 40 |
| 67 | Ishwar Pandey | 2014-2015 | 25 | – | 17 |
Someone who would’ve found himself most unlucky would be Baba Aparajith who was with Dhoni for 5 seasons (3 for CSK and 2 for Pune), and yet never got a single game for CSK or even in the IPL as a whole. As you can see above, those who joined CSK in IPL 2014 had very short careers, either playing the sole season, or a max of two, as CSK then took a break from the IPL.
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The break came in the form of a 2-year suspension from the Indian Premier League, because of suspicion of involvement in sports betting by the owners. That means there were no new players added to the CSK set-up for IPL 2016 and IPL 2017. Come IPL 2018, there was a complete revamp of the squad, the biggest since their debut in the inaugural season in 2008.
IPL 2015 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 68 | Ankush Bains | – | – | – | – |
| 69 | Eklavya Dwivedi | – | – | – | – |
| 70 | Irfan Pathan | – | – | – | – |
| 71 | Kyle Abbott | – | – | – | – |
| 72 | Pratyush Singh | – | – | – | – |
| 73 | Rahul Sharma | – | – | – | – |
| 74 | Andrew Tye | – | – | – | – |
None of the new faces picked up for IPL 2015 ended up playing a game for CSK, while most of them were distributed into the Gujarat Lions and Rising Pune Supergiant franchises that emerged for two years. Other high profile names to have been picked for CSK but never get a game include Hemang Badani, Baba Aparajith, Matt Henry, Irfan Pathan, Kyle Abbott, Andrew Tye, Cheteshwar Pujara, and others.
IPL 2018 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 75 | Sam Billings | 2018-2019 | 11 | 108 | – |
| 76 | Narayan Jagadeesan | 2018-2022 | 7 | 73 | – |
| 77 | Kshitiz Sharma | – | – | – | – |
| 78 | Ambati Rayudu | 2018-2023 | 90 | 1,932 | – |
| 79 | Dhruv Shorey | 2018-2019 | 2 | 13 | – |
| 80 | Chaitanya Bishnoi | – | – | – | – |
| 81 | Monu Kumar | 2018-2020 | 1 | – | 0 |
| 82 | Kanishk Seth | – | – | – | – |
| 83 | Shane Watson | 2018-2020 | 43 | 1,252 | 6 |
| 84 | David Willey | 2018 | 3 | – | 2 |
| 86 | Kedar Jadhav | 2018-2020 | 23 | 248 | – |
| 86 | Mitchell Santner | 2018-2024 | 18 | 70 | 15 |
| 87 | KM Asif | 2018-2021 | 3 | – | 4 |
| 88 | Deepak Chahar | 2018-2024 | 76 | 66 | 76 |
| 89 | Lungi Ngidi | 2018-2021 | 14 | – | 25 |
| 90 | Harbhajan Singh | 2018-2019 | 24 | 30 | 23 |
| 91 | Imran Tahir | 2018-2021 | 27 | 15 | 35 |
| 92 | Karn Sharma | 2018-2020 | 12 | 0 | 10 |
| 93 | Shardul Thakur | 2018-2024 | 57 | 67 | 60 |
| 94 | Mark Wood | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
IPL 2019 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 95 | Ruturaj Gaikwad (C) | 2019-2025 | 71 | 2,502 | – |
| 96 | Scott Kuggeleijn | 2019 | 2 | – | 2 |
IPL 2020 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 97 | Sam Curran | 2020-2025 | 27 | 351 | 22 |
| 98 | Piyush Chawla | 2020 | 7 | – | 6 |
| 99 | Josh Hazlewood | 2020-2021 | 12 | – | 12 |
| 100 | Sai Kishore | – | – | – | – |
Some big international names who barely made appearances for the franchise include Mark Wood (1 game), Scott Kuggeleijn (2 games), David Willey (3 games), David Hussey and Dirk Nannes (5 games each), Ben Laughlin, Scott Styris and John Hastings (2 games each), Adam Milne and Thisara Perera (1 game each), and Chris Jordan (4 games).
IPL 2021 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 101 | Hari Nishaanth | – | – | – | – |
| 102 | Cheteshwar Pujara | – | – | – | – |
| 103 | Robin Uthappa | 2021-2022 | 16 | 345 | – |
| 104 | Moeen Ali | 2021-2024 | 48 | 853 | 25 |
| 105 | Bhagath Varma | – | – | – | – |
| 106 | Dominic Drakes | – | – | – | – |
| 107 | Krishnappa Gowtham | – | – | – | – |
| 108 | Jason Behrendorff | – | – | – | – |
| 109 | Harishankar Reddy | – | – | – | – |
IPL 2022 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 110 | Devon Conway | 2022-2025 | 26 | 1,018 | – |
| 111 | Subhranshu Senapati | – | – | – | – |
| 112 | Shivam Dube | 2022-2025 | 51 | 1,351 | 1 |
| 113 | Rajvardhan Hangargekar | 2022-2023 | 2 | – | 3 |
| 114 | Dwaine Pretorius | 2022-2023 | 7 | 44 | 6 |
| 115 | Tushar Deshpande | 2022-2024 | 31 | 0 | 39 |
| 116 | Chris Jordan | 2022 | 4 | 11 | 2 |
| 117 | Mukesh Choudhary | 2022-2025 | 16 | 6 | 17 |
| 118 | Matheesha Pathirana | 2022-2025 | 28 | – | 43 |
| 119 | Simarjeet Singh | 2022-2024 | 10 | 7 | 9 |
| 120 | Prashant Solanki | 2022 | 2 | – | 2 |
| 121 | Maheesh Theekshana | 2022-2024 | 27 | 7 | 25 |
| 122 | Adam Milne | 2022 | 1 | – | 0 |
IPL 2023 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 123 | Ajinkya Rahane | 2023-2024 | 27 | 568 | – |
| 124 | Shaik Rasheed | 2023-2025 | 4 | 57 | – |
| 125 | Ajay Mandal | – | – | – | – |
| 126 | Nishant Sindhu | – | – | – | – |
| 127 | Ben Stokes | 2023 | 2 | 15 | 0 |
| 128 | Akash Singh | 2023 | 6 | – | 5 |
| 129 | Sisanda Magala | 2023 | 2 | – | 1 |
| 130 | Kyle Jamieson | – | – | – | – |
CSK’s biggest buy ahead of the IPL 2023 season was that of Ben Stokes but he only managed to get in two games for the team, after being paid a whopping 16.25 Crore at the auction. That season, they also bought Kiwi pacer Kyle Jamieson who didn’t appear in any game in that season, along with the likes of uncapped players Ajay Mandal and Nishant Sindhu.
IPL 2024 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 131 | Aravelly Avanish | – | – | – | – |
| 132 | Sameer Rizvi | 2024 | 8 | 51 | – |
| 133 | Daryl Mitchell | 2024 | 13 | 318 | 1 |
| 134 | Rachin Ravindra | 2024-2025 | 18 | 413 | – |
| 135 | Richard Gleeson | 2024 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 136 | Mustafizur Rahman | 2024 | 9 | – | 14 |
With the ball, Dwayne Bravo is the leading wicket-taker for CSK with 154 scalps to his name, but Ravindra Jadeja is slowly creeping up on him, with 149 wickets taken for the team in yellow. In terms of catches, Suresh Raina leads the pack for the most as a non-keeper, with 110 catches, while Jadeja is second with 92 catches and Faf du Plessis is third with 66 catches for CSK.
IPL 2025 CSK players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 137 | C Andre Siddarth | – | – | – | – |
| 138 | Vansh Bedi | – | – | – | – |
| 139 | Rahul Tripathi | 2025 | 5 | 55 | – |
| 140 | Dewald Brevis | 2025 | 2 | 74 | – |
| 141 | Ramakrishna Ghosh | – | – | – | – |
| 142 | Shreyas Gopal | – | – | – | – |
| 143 | Deepak Hooda | 2025 | 5 | 31 | – |
| 144 | Anshul Kamboj | 2025 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 145 | Ayush Mhatre | 2025 | 3 | 69 | – |
| 146 | Jamie Overton | 2025 | 3 | 15 | – |
| 147 | Khaleel Ahmed | 2025 | 10 | – | 14 |
| 148 | Nathan Ellis | 2025 | 1 | – | 1 |
| 149 | Noor Ahmad | 2025 | 10 | 3 | 15 |
| 150 | Kamlesh Nagarkoti | – | – | – | – |
| 151 | Gurjapneet Singh | – | – | – | – |
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If he Perform or not perform
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IPL 2026 – CSK new players list
| Sr. | Name | Career span | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| 152 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 153 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 154 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 155 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 156 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 157 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 158 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 159 | – | – | – | – | – |
Lot of conversation about their team balance after a poor show in the IPL 2025 season, which saw them at the bottom of the points table through most of the season. We’re sure to see a complete revamp of the CSK squad at the IPL 2026 auction, where it’s possible that many loyal servants like R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, and Dhoni, may finally move on from this franchise.
CSK’s middle order before Dewald Brevis pic.twitter.com/UhuMHDJIbp
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One of the biggest positives from the IPL 2025 season was Afghanistan’s Noor Ahmad, who was on top of the Purple Cap wickets list for most of IPL 2025. On the other hand, signing ‘Baby AB’ Dewald Brevis was another major positive, scoring 42(25)* on his IPL debut and providing the right impetus in their otherwise failing batting line-up. Thanks for tuning in to this page of the complete CSK players list.
FAQs on all CSK players list
Q. Why was CSK banned for 2 years?
Ans. There was an involvement of a CSK official, Gurunath Meiyappan, in spot fixing and betting during the IPL 2013 season. Once the investigation was done, the franchise received a 2-year ban before returning to the IPL in the 2018 season.
Q. Who is the first player for CSK?
Ans. Since he was appointed the captain of Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2008, MS Dhoni became the first name on the team list for the franchise, along with the likes of Michael Hussey, Parthiv Patel, and others who played that first match for CSK.
Q. How many players have played for CSK?
Ans. A total of 151 players were signed by CSK over the years, while only 111 of them have played at least a single game in yellow for the franchise. Above, you can see our complete CSK players list all-time.
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