The Chennai franchise had appointed Jadeja as the captain for the 2022 edition, but the player had left the leadership role midway. Dhoni had stepped in as captain for the remainder of the season.
The franchise retained the core of the group but let go of English pacer Chris Jordan who recently won the T20 World cup with England and is considered a death-overs specialist.
The team released the maximum number of players among all the franchises and are left with the smallest purse for the IPL mini-auction scheduled for December 23 at Rs 7.05 crores.
The right-arm seamer, who was also handy with the bat, will depart along with all-rounder Chamika Karunaratne, Aaron Finch, Pat Cummins, Sam Billings, Mohammad Nabi, and Sam Billings.
A maximum of four players were allowed for the teams to be retained in the major auction last year. Each team will also have an additional INR 5 crore (USD 607,000) to spend on top of the money from the previous auction, bringing the total auction pot to INR 95 crore ( USD 11.5 million).
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