India, Nov. 22 -- Chennai Super Kings have finally done the one thing they spent a decade avoiding - they have torn at the heart of their own mythology. A wooden-spoon season in 2025, a trade that sends Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran away and brings in Sanju Samson, and a big loose purse for the mini-auction. What CSK have done is not the conservative, continuity-based CSK of old. This is a franchise admitting that their old template can't simply be reheated for 2026.

The question is no longer whether they needed change. It is whether they have changed in the right place. Through the twin lenses of Retention Value Score (RVS) and Release Risk Score (RRS) - CSK's reset looks bold, emotional, and a little bit dangerous.

CSK come off their...