Chennai Super Kings in 2015

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The 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 for the eighth season in succession by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

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:

Name	Template:Tooltip	IPL Matches	Capped / uncapped	Base Price in Template:INR (in lakhs)	Auctioned price in Template:INR (in lakhs)
Michael Hussey	Template:Flagicon	55	Capped	150	150
Irfan Pathan	Template:Flagicon	98	Capped	150	150
Rahul Sharma	Template:Flagicon	44	Capped	30	30
Kyle Abbott	Template:Flagicon	0	Capped	30	30
Andrew Tye	Template:Flagicon	0	Uncapped	20	20
Pratyush Singh	Template:Flagicon	0	Uncapped	10	10
Ankush Bains	Template:Flagicon	0	Uncapped	10	10
Eklavya Dwivedi	Template:Flagicon	0	Uncapped	10	10

Squad

• Players with international caps before the 2015 IPL season are listed in bold.
• Template:Color box denotes a player who was unavailable for the season.

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

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Playoffs

Qualifier 1

Qualifier 2

Statistics

Most runs

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

• Last Update: 24 May 2015.
• Source: Cricinfo

Most wickets

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

• Last Update: 24 May 2015.
• Template:Color box The player with the most wickets at the end of the tournament receives the Purple Cap.
• Source: Cricinfo

Most catches

Player	Team	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
Template:Flagicon Dwayne Bravo	Chennai Super Kings	17	13	3
Template:Flagicon Ravindra Jadeja	Chennai Super Kings	17	13	3
Template:Flagicon Suresh Raina	Chennai Super Kings	17	11	2

• Last Update: 24 May 2015
• Source: Cricinfo