Chennai Super Kings (CSK) released five players from their squad ahead of the IPL 2020 auction which is scheduled to take place in December. Many were surprised Chennai again retained the senior players.

The fans think it may backfire them this year considering CSK has the highest age average among all the teams. But ex-India cricketer, now analyst, Sanjay Manjrekar thinks differently. Talking about CSK on Star Sports' show 'Game Plan', Manjrekar said MS Dhoni is known to back his players. 

"CSK with Dhoni at the helm is amazing; the way he has managed to get results with the aging players. CSK has released fringed players but not the likes of Shane Watson or DJ Bravo, you know these are the aging guys, but MS Dhoni just keeps the faith in those players," he said.

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Chennai released pacer Mohit Sharma from their squad. Manjrekar thinks the rise of Deepak Chahar has a role to play in it. 

"Look at the players that they have released, they will get a sizeable amount from Mohit Sharma, he was a hit n miss and didn't play as many matches. Deepak Chahar coming in has really made matter so much easier, but none of the aging players has been released," he said.

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) head coach Mike Hesson commented on RCB's decision to release Dale Steyn.

Explaining their move, he said, "We are really pleased with the players we have retained, and two key releases from RCB are Dale Steyn and Marcus Stoinis. Dale Steyn is an excellent legend of the game but keeping his injuries in mind he seemed to be high risk to retain hence we have unfortunately looked to release him. We let Marcus Stoinis go as part of our budget requirements, at Rs6.2 crore it's a huge part of our budget so we've had to release Marcus for this coming year and now our planning is for this year's auction." 

(WITH IANS INPUTS)