The Indian swing specialist, Deepak Chahar was bought by the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) for ₹14 crores in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 Auction, which took place earlier this month. The bowling all-rounder was involved in a mega bidding war involving CSK, Rajasthan Royals (RR), SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH), and Delhi Capitals (DC). CSK eventually came out on top and outbid others.

However, during a recent conversation on Sports Yaari, Deepak revealed that if CSK failed to buy him in the Mega Auction, he would’ve liked to play for Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the upcoming season of the IPL.

Deepak Chahar said, "had CSK failed to buy me in the Mega Auction, I would've liked to play for Rajasthan Royals". (On Sports Yaari).

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Earlier this month, after the auction, during a chat on Star Sports, Deepak Chahar said, “I wanted to play for CSK because I haven’t imagined myself playing in another color than yellow. At one point, I thought it (the bid price) was too much. As a CSK player, I also want to build a good team. So after they spent ₹13 crores, I actually wanted the bidding to stop so I can go to CSK quickly, and then we can buy some other players (with the money saved).”

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A part of the Indian white-ball team currently, Deepak Chahar said in 2018, he was told by franchise owner N Srinivasan that “you will play in yellow always”. Since then, Chahar said, he had never brought up the topic of retention with the team management or its talisman Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Explaining it further, Deepak Chahar said, “I’ve never spoken about all this to Mahi bhai (captain MS Dhoni) or CSK management,” Chahar said. “In 2018, I had met Srinivasan sir, and he has said, ‘you will play in yellow always’. So I took his word that day and since then I have never spoken about retention. I knew CSK would bid (for me).”