Australian Consulate Reveals “Love for Aussies in CSK”; Posts Special Request

The IPL auction season  has reached a high point in the past week as all the IPL franchises released players to free up space for the IPL 2020 auction that is scheduled on December 19.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) released Sam Billings, David Willey, Mohit Sharma, Dhruv Shenoy and Chaitanya Bisnoy, thus adding INR 8.4 CR to the purse. Now CSK has INR 14.60 CR for the IPL 2020 auction.

CSK can buy 5 players and are allowed to buy only 2 overseas players. Meanwhile, the Australian consulate Chennai twitter page has shared their love for Aussies playing for Chennai Super Kings.

They shared CSK's tweet regarding the 'Super Purse' available and captioned "We’d love to see more Aussies playing for  @ChennaiIPL ... just saying  #WhistlePodu #Yellove " (CSK)

We’d love to see more Aussies playing for @ChennaiIPL... just saying 😏 #WhistlePodu #Yellove 🦁💛 https://t.co/uxKZMojLxU

— Aus Consulate Chennai (@AusCGChennai) November 16, 2019

Interestingly CSK has had a fair number of Australian players since 2008. The list of Australian players who have played for CSK is given below.

Matthew Hayden: 2008-10

Mike Hussey: 2008-13

George Bailey:2009-13

Doug Bollinger: 2010-12

Ben Hilfenhaus: 2012-14

Dirk Nannes: 2013

Ben Laughlin: 2013

David Hussey: 2014

John Hastings:2014-15

Andrew Tye: 2015

Shane Watson: 2018 - present