page_title: Chennai Super Kings in 2019
section_title: Player retention, transfers and auction
hierarchical_section_title: Chennai Super Kings in 2019 / Background / Player retention, transfers and auction
caption_attribution_description: English: Dhoni at Reebok event.
context_page_description: The Chennai Super Kings are a franchise cricket team based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League. They were one of the eight teams that competed in the 2019 Indian Premier League.
context_section_description: In November 2018, the Super Kings announced their list of retained players for the 2019 season. The list included Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, Murali Vijay, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Billings, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, Narayan Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar and Chaitanya Bishnoi.
  On 18 December 2018, the IPL player auction was held in which the Super Kings signed up two players viz., Mohit Sharma and Ruturaj Gaikwad.
caption: Dhoni captained the team for the 10th successive season of the franchise
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