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.NameNationalityBirth dateBatting styleBowling styleSigned yearSalaryNotes Batsmen3 Suresh Raina Left-handed Right-arm off break 2014 Vice-captain12 Mithun Manhas Right-handed Right-arm off break 2014 13 Faf du Plessis Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2014 Overseas42 Brendon McCullum Right-handed Right-arm medium 2014 Overseas48 Michael Hussey Left-handed Right-arm medium 2015 Overseas All-rounders5 Baba Aparajith Right-handed Right-arm off break 2014 8 Ravindra Jadeja Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2014 47 Dwayne Bravo Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2014 Overseas50 Dwayne Smith Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2014 Overseas56 Irfan Pathan Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2015 68 Andrew Tye Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2015 Overseas Wicket-keepers1 Eklavya Dwivedi Right-handed 2015 7 Mahendra Singh Dhoni Right-handed Right-arm medium 2014 Captain9 Ankush Bains Right-handed 2015 Bowlers6 Pawan Negi Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2014 15 Ishwar Pandey Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2014 18 Mohit Sharma Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2014 19 Pratyush Singh Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly 2015 21 Matt Henry Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2014 Overseas22 Ronit More Right-handed Right arm medium-fast 2014 27 Rahul Sharma Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly 2015 64 Ashish Nehra Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2014 77 Samuel Badree Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2014 Overseas87 Kyle Abbott Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2015 Overseas99 Ravichandran Ashwin Right-handed Right-arm off break 2014
IPL
Standings Chennai Super Kings finished first in the league stage of IPL 2015.
Results
League matches
Playoffs
Qualifier 1
Qualifier 2
Final
Statistics
Most runs Player Runs 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 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
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