2015 Chennai Super Kings season

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is a franchise cricket team based in Chennai, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the eight teams that competed in the 2015 Indian Premier League. They were captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni for the eight consecutive season.

The Super Kings reached the final of the 2015 IPL where they lost to Mumbai Indians.

IPL auction 2015

Chennai Super Kings bought the following players in the 2015 auction:

• Michael Hussey
• Irfan Pathan
• Rahul Sharma
• Kyle Abbott
• Andrew Tye
• Pratyush Singh
• Ankush Bains
• Eklavya Dwivedi

Squad

• Players with international caps before the 2015 IPL season are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Signed year	Salary	Notes
Batsmen
3	Suresh Raina	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2014	Template:INRConvert	Vice-captain
12	Mithun Manhas	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2014	Template:INRConvert
13	Faf du Plessis	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2014	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
42	Brendon McCullum	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2014	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
48	Michael Hussey	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	2015	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
All-rounders
5	Baba Aparajith	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2014	Template:INRConvert
8	Ravindra Jadeja	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2014	Template:INRConvert
47	Dwayne Bravo	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2014	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
50	Dwayne Smith	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2014	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
56	Irfan Pathan	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2015	Template:INRConvert
68	Andrew Tye	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2015	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
Wicket-keepers
1	Eklavya Dwivedi	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed		2015	Template:INRConvert
7	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2014	Template:INRConvert	Captain
9	Ankush Bains	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed		2015	Template:INRConvert
Bowlers
6	Pawan Negi	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2014	Template:INRConvert
15	Ishwar Pandey	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2014	Template:INRConvert
18	Mohit Sharma	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2014	Template:INRConvert
19	Pratyush Singh	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2015	Template:INRConvert
21	Matt Henry	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2014	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
22	Ronit More	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	2014	Template:INRConvert
27	Rahul Sharma	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2015	Template:INRConvert
64	Ashish Nehra	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2014	Template:INRConvert
77	Samuel Badree	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2014	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
87	Kyle Abbott	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2015	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
99	Ravichandran Ashwin	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2014	Template:INRConvert

IPL

Standings

Chennai Super Kings finished first in the league stage of IPL 2015.

• Top 4 teams were qualified for the playoffs
• Template:Color box advanced to the Qualifier
• Template:Color box advanced to the Eliminator

("C" refers to the "Champions" of the Tournament. 'R'(2nd Position), '3' and '4' are the positions of the respective teams in the tournament.)

Results

Playoffs

Qualifier 1

Qualifier 2

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Runs	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
Brendon McCullum	14	14	436	33.53	155.71	100	1	2	51	23
Dwayne Smith	16	16	399	24.93	119.10	62	0	2	52	16
Faf du Plessis	17	15	280	29.23	125.00	55	0	1	37	5

• Source: ESPNcricinfo

Most wickets

Player	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
Dwayne Bravo	17	16	26	16.38	8.14	Template:Ntsh3/22	12.00	0	0
Ashish Nehra	16	16	22	20.40	7.24	Template:Ntsh4/10	16.90	1	0
Mohit Sharma	16	16	14	34.35	8.43	Template:Ntsh3/25	24.40	0	0

• Bravo won the Purple Cap award as the player who took the most wickets in the tournament
• Source: ESPNcricinfo