Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Mumbai Indians (MI) are the most dominant teams in the league. So far, Rohit Sharma led MI has won four titles while MS Dhoni-led CSK has won three trophies. In the last edition, MI had beaten CSK to clinch their fourth title which had made them the most successful team in the IPL history.
The winning squad doesn’t have to be always the same. As the franchise is free to trade and buy players in the auction, the team composition changes every season with the inclusion of new members in the squad.
Thus, a player might have won the title for a different team in a different season. Here, we take a look at those five players who have lifted the IPL trophy for MI as well as CSK. Let’s have a glance.
Top 5 players who won the IPL title with both MI and CSK:
1. Ambati Rayudu (MI – 2013, 2015 and 2017, CSK – 2018)
Ambati Rayudu started the IPL journey with Mumbai Indians in 2010. He played there for eight years and won three titles for them. The middle-order batsman handled the pressure well for MI but his form dipped as the season passed.
All in all, he played 114 matches for MI and scored 2,416 runs for them. In 2017, he got only five chances and for the next season, he was dropped from MI.
CSK bagged the service of Rayudu in 2018 where his fate changed. He scored highest runs in his IPL career.
Rayudu scored 602 runs in 16 matches for Chennai and he even registered his first IPL hundred that year. Fortunately, CSK also lifted the IPL trophy in 2018. Currently, the plays for the yellow army.