Chennai Super Kings (CSK) bowling coach Lakshmipathy Balaji said the think-tank was happy with the buys from the first day of the 2022 IPL Mega Auction on Saturday. In the auction, Chennai brought back many of their core players from last year like Robin Uthappa, Dwayne Bravo, Ambati Rayudu, Deepak Chahar, and KM Asif apart from Tushar Deshpande.
"The core players are very important. Rayudu, Deepak, and Bravo, they do multi-activity jobs and give options like middle-order, bowling as well as top-order and flexible players. So, those are the three players where more focus was on the first front. We did go for a couple of players where it was hit and miss, which we kind of expected," said Balaji in the virtual press conference.
"But it is good, for whatever we always believe in that our system has to give in more chances for a proven player. It's been always in CSK's mantra that players who have played for a longer period of time are able to produce a lot of results. So, we are happy with the buys," added Balaji.
