The 2025 season was the 16th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise Chennai Super Kings. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 IPL. Mid-season, MS Dhoni took over as the captain after Ruturaj Gaikwad withdrew due to injury. The team was coached by Stephen Fleming.
Chennai Super Kings had a poor season and were the first team to be eliminated from the 2025 IPL. The team lost five matches at home in a season for the first time and finished the season in last place (tenth) with four wins from 14 matches. Shivam Dube scored the most runs (357) while Noor Ahmad took the most wickets (24) for Chennai in the 2025 season.
Pre-season
The 2025 Indian Premier League was the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Chennai Super Kings are the joint-most successful franchise with 5 title wins. The team finished in fifth place in the previous season. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 3 June 2025. Chennai played all their home matches at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, except for the last one, which was moved to Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium following the IPL's suspension and rescheduling.
Player retention Franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of six players from their squad, including a maximum of five recent international players. Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 31 October 2024. Chennai retained five players, including captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and former captains MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja.
+ Retained players No. Player Salary 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad 2 Ravindra Jadeja 3 Matheesha Pathirana 4 Shivam Dube 5 MS Dhoni
+ Released players Batters Wicket-keepers All-rounders Fast bowlers Spin bowlers Ajinkya Rahane Sameer Rizvi Shaik Rasheed Aravelly Avanish Rao Devon Conway Ajay Mandal Daryl Mitchell Mitchell Santner Moeen Ali Nishant Sindhu Rachin Ravindra Rajvardhan Hangargekar Deepak Chahar Mukesh Choudhary Mustafizur Rahman Richard Gleeson Shardul Thakur Simarjeet Singh Tushar Deshpande Maheesh Theekshana Prashant Solanki
Auction The season's auction took place on 24 and 25 November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction purse for each franchise was set at , with the franchises being deducted an amount from the purse for each retained player. Chennai had a purse remaining of . Franchises that did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match (RTM) cards at the auction for each player not retained. Chennai had one card available. Chennai bought twenty players in the auction, including ten capped players and six overseas players. Chennai used their RTM card to buy back Rachin Ravindra for .
Squad Players with international caps as of start of 2025 IPL are listed in bold. Ages are as of . Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol () and placed at the bottom of the table.
+ Chennai Super Kings squad for the 2025 Indian Premier League S/N Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Salary Notes 1 Ramakrishna Ghosh Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 7 MS Dhoni Right-handed Right-arm medium Captain 8 Ravindra Jadeja Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 10 Jamie Overton Right-handed Right-arm fast Overseas 12 Dewald Brevis Right-handed Right-arm leg spin Overseas; replacement 15 Noor Ahmad Right-handed Left-arm wrist-spin Overseas 17 Rachin Ravindra Left-handed Left-arm slow orthodox Overseas 19 Shreyas Gopal Right-handed Right-arm leg spin 25 Shivam Dube Left-handed Right-arm medium 27 Urvil Patel Right-handed Replacement 28 Andre Siddarth Right-handed 33 Mukesh Choudhary Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium 47 Anshul Kamboj Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 51 Kamlesh Nagarkoti Right-handed Right-arm fast 52 Rahul Tripathi Right-handed Right-arm medium 56 Ayush Mhatre Right-handed Right-arm off break Replacement 57 Deepak Hooda Right-handed Right-arm off break 58 Sam Curran Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium Overseas 59 Vijay Shankar Right-handed Right-arm medium 66 Shaik Rasheed Right-handed Right-arm leg spin 71 Khaleel Ahmed Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium 72 Nathan Ellis Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas 81 Matheesha Pathirana Right-handed Right-arm fast Overseas 88 Devon Conway Left-handed Right-arm medium Overseas 99 Ravichandran Ashwin Right-handed Right-arm off break 9 Gurjapneet Singh Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium Withdrawn 23 Vansh Bedi Right-handed Withdrawn 31 Ruturaj Gaikwad Right-handed Right-arm off break Captain; withdrawn
Support staff In September 2024, it was announced that Chennai's bowling coach, Dwayne Bravo, would join Kolkata Knight Riders in a mentorship role.
Position Name Head coach Stephen Fleming Batting coach Michael Hussey Bowling coach Eric Simons Fielding coach Rajiv Kumar Source: Wisden
League stage Chennai Super Kings began their season with a win against Mumbai Indians. They lost their next five mathces against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings and Kolkata. On 10 April, Gaikwad withdrew from the season due to injury, and Dhoni took over as the captain. Chennai won their seventh match against Lucknow Super Giants; but lost their next four matches against Mumbai, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Punjab and Bengaluru; and became the first team to be eliminated from the 2025 IPL. Chennai lost five home venue matches in a season for the first time, and was eliminated in the league stage in two consecutive seasons for the first time since the inauguration of the IPL. They won the next match against Kolkata, lost to Rajasthan and won their last match of the season against Gujarat Titans. Chennai finished at the bottom of the points table for the first time in an IPL season with eight points.
Points table
League progression
Fixtures
Statistics
At the IPL end of season awards, Chennai was awarded the team fairplay award.
+ Most runs Runs Player 357 Shivam Dube 301 Ravindra Jadeja 240 Ayush Mhatre 225 Dewald Brevis 196 MS Dhoni + Most wickets Wickets Player 24 Noor Ahmad 15 Khaleel Ahmed 13 Matheesha Pathirana 10 Ravindra Jadeja 8 Anshul Kamboj
References Original 2025 IPL Schedule vs Revised 2025 IPL Schedule
General references
External links
Chennai Super Kings at IPLT20.com