The IPL 2020 will kick-off from 19 September, Saturday in Abu Dhabi. The long-awaited season of the league will be conducted across three venues – Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Dubai over the next 53 days. A total of 56 league stage matches will be conducted before the four playoff games to be held in November 2020.

The most consistent side in the tournament, Chennai Super Kings, will be itching to begin the tournament against the most successful side, Mumbai Indians in the IPL 13 opener. While the Super Kings did not participate in 2016 and 2017, they reached the playoffs each time in the remaining 10 seasons.

IPL 2020: Chennai Super Kings' (CSK) IPL journey in numbers

The CSK camp faced a huge hurdle when 13 members from their side tested positive for COVID-19 towards the end of August 2020. Almost everybody tested negative after completing the quarantine period and the team was cleared to begin practice. The credit for regaining calm in the side was given to their veteran skipper MS Dhoni.

Dhoni will be leading the fondly-called ‘Daddies' Army’ in IPL 2020 and will be looking forward to equal Mumbai Indians’ record of 4 IPL titles. CSK has a squad that makes them a contender to win yet another season of the IPL.

Team COC has a look at who the top 5 players will be that can help CSK win IPL 13