Former BCCI president returns to CSK ahead of IPL 2026

The former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), N Srinivasan, has begun his second innings in the game as he has become the chairman of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) cricket-limited, the company that has been the joint-most successful franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with five titles.

Srinivasan and his daughter, Rupa Gurunath, joined the CSKCL board for the very first time in February this year. In the annual report of the board in 2025, it was revealed that N Srinivasan would take over as the chairman of the company in May from his cousin, R Srinivasan. Rupa, on the other hand, was made the director just a week ago.

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The reports came more than a year after the India Cements, who are the founder owners of the Super Kings, sold their cement business to Ultra Tech Cement. Even though Srinivasan was the soul and brain behind the formation and repeated success of the side in 2008, he never held any official post of the franchise.

N Srinivasan returns to cricket administration of CSK ahead of IPL 2026

Despite the foundation and the success of the side, the allegations of conflict of interest did take their toll on the business tycoon’s cricket administrative career, as he would have to leave the post of president when the spot-fixing scandal was at its peak during the 2013 season. The franchise was, later, suspended for two seasons in 2016 and 2017.

Later, Srinivasan became the ICC chairman, and his entire group ran the show in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) till 2015. However, his links with the Chennai Super Kings weighed heavily against him. Now, in the second innings, the franchise will aim to offer better performance with bat and ball.

Ravichandran Ashwin, who joined the Indian Cements late in the year in June, got the chance to play for CSK in what turned out to be his last edition in the league as he retired from Indian cricket in all forms. There are fresh but normal speculations of whether their former captain, MS Dhoni, would be back for the franchise from the next season.