2015 Chennai Super Kings season explained

Club:	Chennai Super Kings
Season:	2015
Coach:	Stephen Fleming
Captain:	Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Ground:	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Comp1:	IPL
Comp1 Result:	Runners-up
Comp2:	CLT20
Comp2 Result:	Defunct
Most Runs:	Brendon McCullum (436)^[1]
Most Wickets:	Dwayne Bravo (26)^[2]
Most Catches:	Dwayne Bravo (13) Ravindra Jadeja (13)^[3]
Most Dismissals:	Mahendra Singh Dhoni (11)^[4]
Prevseason:	2014
Nextseason:	2018

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:^[5]

• 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		April 16, 2015	Left-handed		2014		Vice-captain
12			April 16, 2015	Right-handed		2014
13	Faf du Plessis		April 16, 2015	Right-handed		2014		Overseas
42	Brendon McCullum		April 16, 2015	Right-handed		2014		Overseas
48	Michael Hussey		April 16, 2015	Left-handed		2015		Overseas
All-rounders
5			April 16, 2015	Right-handed		2014
8	Ravindra Jadeja		April 16, 2015	Left-handed		2014
47	Dwayne Bravo		April 16, 2015	Right-handed		2014		Overseas
50	Dwayne Smith		April 16, 2015	Right-handed		2014		Overseas
56	Irfan Pathan		16 April 2015	Left-handed		2015
68			16 April 2015	Right-handed		2015		Overseas
Wicket-keepers
1			16 April 2015	Right-handed		2015
7	Mahendra Singh Dhoni		April 16, 2015	Right-handed		2014		Captain
9			16 April 2015	Right-handed		2015
Bowlers
6			April 16, 2015	Left-handed		2014
15			16 April 2015	Right-handed		2014
18	Mohit Sharma		16 April 2015	Right-handed		2014
19			April 16, 2015	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2015
21	Matt Henry		16 April 2015	Right-handed		2014		Overseas
22			16 April 2015	Right-handed		2014
27	Rahul Sharma		April 16, 2015	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2015
64	Ashish Nehra		16 April 2015	Right-handed		2014
77	Samuel Badree		April 16, 2015	Right-handed		2014		Overseas
87	Kyle Abbott		16 April 2015	Right-handed		2015		Overseas
99	Ravichandran Ashwin		April 16, 2015	Right-handed		2014

IPL

Standings

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

Results

Playoffs

Qualifier 1

Qualifier 2

Final

See main article: 2015 Indian Premier League final.

Statistics

Most runs

Player			Runs
	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^[6]

Most wickets

Player
Dwayne Bravo	17	16	26	16.38	8.14	3/22	12.00	0	0
Ashish Nehra	16	16	22	20.40	7.24	4/10	16.90	1	0
Mohit Sharma	16	16	14	34.35	8.43	3/25	24.40	0	0

• Bravo won the Purple Cap award as the player who took the most wickets in the tournament
• Source: ESPNcricinfo^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Indian Premier League, 2015 / Records / Most runs. ESPNcricinfo. 24 May 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150420223218/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2015/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=9657%3Btype%3Dtournament. 20 April 2015. dmy-all.
2. Web site: Indian Premier League, 2015 / Records / Most wickets. ESPNcricinfo. 24 May 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150811015143/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2015/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?id=9657%3Btype%3Dtournament. 11 August 2015. dmy-all.
3. Web site: Indian Premier League, 2015 / Records / Most catches. ESPNcricinfo. 20 June 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150422191635/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2015/engine/records/fielding/most_catches_career.html?id=9657%3Btype%3Dtournament. 22 April 2015. dmy-all.
4. Web site: Indian Premier League, 2015 / Records / Most dismissals. 8 April 2015 . Cricketcountry . 20 June 2015.
5. News: IPLT20.com - Indian Premier League Auction 2015 . 16 February 2015 . IPLT20.com . 13 April 2015 . 14 March 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024937/http://www.iplt20.com/playerAuction . dead .
6. Web site: Indian Premier League, 2015 / Records / Most runs. ESPNcricinfo. 24 May 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150420223218/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2015/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=9657%3Btype%3Dtournament. 20 April 2015. dmy-all.
7. Web site: Indian Premier League, 2015 / Records / Most wickets. ESPNcricinfo. 24 May 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150811015143/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2015/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?id=9657%3Btype%3Dtournament. 11 August 2015. dmy-all.